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Behdad S, Pakdel A, Massudi R. A novel diagnostic approach to Paratuberculosis in dairy cattle using near-infrared spectroscopy and aquaphotomics. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2024; 14:1374560. [PMID: 38873096 PMCID: PMC11170640 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2024.1374560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2024] [Accepted: 04/23/2024] [Indexed: 06/15/2024] Open
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Introduction As a contagious and chronic disease in the livestock industry, Paratuberculosis is a significant threat to dairy herds' genetic and economic resources. Due to intensive breeding and high production of dairy cattle, the incidence and prevalence are higher. Developing non-destructive diagnostic methods for the early detection and identification of healthy animals is paramount for breeding programs. Conventional methods are almost entirely destructive, have low accuracy, lack precision, and are time-consuming. Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and aquaphotomics can detect changes in biofluids and thus have the potential to diagnose disease. This study aimed to investigate the diagnostic ability of NIRS and aquaphotomics for Paratuberculosis in dairy cattle. Methods Blood plasma from dairy cattle was collected in the NIR range (1,300 nm to 1,600 nm) 60 days before and 100 days to 200 days after calving in two groups, positive and negative, using the same consecutive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay test results three times as a reference test. Results NIRS and aquaphotomics methods invite 100% accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity to detect Paratuberculosis using data mining by unsupervised method, Principal Component Analysis, and supervised methods: Soft Independent Modeling of Class Analogiest, Linear Discriminant Analysis, Quadratic Discriminant Analysis, Partial Least Square-Discriminant Analysis, and Support Vector Machine models. Discussion The current study found that monitoring blood plasma with NIR spectra provides an opportunity to analyze antibody levels indirectly via changes in water spectral patterns caused by complex physiological changes, such as the amount of antibodies related to Paratuberculosis by aquagram.
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- Saba Behdad
- Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
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- Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
- Laser and Plasma Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
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Muncan J, Anantawittayanon S, Furuta T, Kaneko T, Tsenkova R. Aquaphotomics monitoring of strawberry fruit during cold storage - A comparison of two cooling systems. Front Nutr 2022; 9:1058173. [PMID: 36570127 PMCID: PMC9780392 DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2022.1058173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2022] [Accepted: 11/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The objective of this study was to use aquaphotomics and near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy to follow the changes in strawberries during cold storage in the refrigerator with an electric field generator (supercooling fridge, SCF) and without it (control fridge, CF). The NIR spectra of strawberries stored in these refrigerators were collected over the course of 15 days using a portable mini spectrometer and their weight was measured daily. The spectral data in the region of the first overtone of water (1,300-1,600 nm) were analyzed using aquaphotomics multivariate analysis. The results showed a decrease in weight loss of strawberries, but the loss of weight was significantly lower in SCF, compared to the CF. The reduction of weight loss due to exposure to an electric field was comparable to the use of coatings. The aquaphotomics analysis showed that the NIR spectra adequately captured changes in the fruit over the storage period, and that it is possible to predict how long the fruit spent in storage, regardless of the storage type. During aquaphotomics analysis, 19 water absorbance bands were found to be consistently repeating and to have importance for the description of changes in strawberries during cold storage. These bands defined the water spectral pattern (WASP), multidimensional biomarker that was used for the description of the state and dynamics of water in strawberries during time spent in storage. Comparison of WASPs of strawberries in CF and SCF showed that exposure to an electric field leads to a delay in ripening by around 3 days. This was evidenced by the increased amount of structural, strongly bound water and vapor-like trapped water in the strawberries stored in SCF. This particular state of water in strawberries stored in SCF was related to the hardening of the strawberry skin and prevention of moisture loss, in agreement with the results of significantly decreased weight loss.
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- Jelena Muncan
- Aquaphotomics Research Department, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
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- Aquaphotomics Research Department, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
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- Aquaphotomics Research Department, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan,*Correspondence: Roumiana Tsenkova,
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Kovacs Z, Muncan J, Veleva P, Oshima M, Shigeoka S, Tsenkova R. Aquaphotomics for monitoring of groundwater using short-wavelength near-infrared spectroscopy. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2022; 279:121378. [PMID: 35617835 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2022.121378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2022] [Revised: 04/22/2022] [Accepted: 05/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Water spectrum of any aqueous system contains information about OH covalent and hydrogen bonds that are highly influenced by the environment and the rest of the molecules in the system. When aquaphotomics is used to analyze the water near infrared (NIR) spectra, the information about the water molecular structure can be obtained as a function of internal and external factors. The objective of this research is to apply aquaphotomics analysis to evaluate different groundwaters by using their NIR unique spectral pattern, robust to external influences of temperature and humidity, that can potentially be used for water type identification and screening practice. Two groundwaters obtained at different depths and their mixture, differing in mineral content and molecular structure were monitored on a daily basis using portable visible/NIR (vis/NIR) spectrometer during three consecutive years. The spectra were pre-processed by smoothing and multiplicative scatter correction (MSC) to remove noise and baseline effects. Results showed that NIR spectral patterns of groundwater samples were affected by changes in environmental factors - temperature, humidity, time and others. The water absorbance bands which are highly influenced by humidity and temperature in short wavelength NIR region were identified. Their avoidance resulted in obtaining consistent spectral patterns during the entire monitoring period, unique for each groundwater, that can be used as its fingerprint and monitored over time. Consistency and uniqueness of the spectral pattern for each groundwater provide a potential to use the deviation of spectral pattern as an indicator of changes in the water. These results confirm that vis/NIR spectral pattern can be used as an integrative marker of water status, stable over time, providing the basis for an efficient cost-effective method for monitoring of water functionality.
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- Zoltan Kovacs
- Department of Measurements and Process Control, Institute of Food Science and Technology, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, 14-16 Somlói str, Budapest 1118, Hungary.
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- Aquaphotomics Research Department, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, 1-1, Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe 657-8501, Japan.
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- Trakia University, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Faculty, Stara Zagora 6000, Bulgaria
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- Shigeoka Co. Ltd, 898 Konono, Hashimoto City, Wakayama 648-0086, Japan; Yunosato Aquaphotomics Lab, 1075 Konono, Hashimoto City, Wakayama 648-0086, Japan.
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- Shigeoka Co. Ltd, 898 Konono, Hashimoto City, Wakayama 648-0086, Japan; Yunosato Aquaphotomics Lab, 1075 Konono, Hashimoto City, Wakayama 648-0086, Japan.
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- Aquaphotomics Research Department, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, 1-1, Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe 657-8501, Japan.
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Yin M, Li J, Huang L, Li Y, Yuan M, Luo Y, Armato U, Zhang L, Wei Y, Li Y, Deng J, Wang P, Wu J. Identification of microbes in wounds using near-infrared spectroscopy. Burns 2022; 48:791-798. [PMID: 34862090 DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2021.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2020] [Revised: 08/16/2021] [Accepted: 09/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND Rapid diagnosis of microbes in the burn wound is a big challenge in the medical field. Traditional biochemical detection techniques take hours or days to identify the species of contaminating and drug-resistant microbes. Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is evaluated to address the need for a fast and sensitive method for the detection of bacterial contamination in liquids. METHODS Herin, we developed a novel technique which by using NIRS together with supporting vector machine (SVM), to identify the microbial species and drug-resistant microbes in LB medium, and to diagnose the wound colonization and wound infection models of pigs. RESULTS The device could recognize 100% of seven kinds of microbes and 99.47% of the multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), with a concentration of 109 cfu ml-1 in LB medium. The accuracy of the microbial identification in colonized and infected wounds in-situ was 100%. The detection limit of NIRS with SVM for the detection of S. aureus and Escherichia coli (E. coli) was 101 cfu ml-1 in LB medium. Identification time was less than 5 s. CONCLUSION Our findings validate for the first time a novel technique aimed at the rapid, noncontacted, highly sensitive, and specific recognition of several microbial species including drug-resistant ones. This technique could represent a promising approach to identify diverse microbial species and a potential bedside device to rapidly diagnose infected wounds.
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- Meifang Yin
- Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery, Institute Translational Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery, Institute Translational Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Institute of Fluid Physics, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang, Sichuan, China
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- School of Microelectronics and Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Burn Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Fluid Physics, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery, Institute Translational Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China; Human Histology and Embryology Unit, University of Verona Medical School, Strada Le Grazie 8, Verona, Italy
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- Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery, Institute Translational Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery, Institute Translational Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery, Institute Translational Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery, Institute Translational Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- School of Microelectronics and Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China.
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- Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery, Institute Translational Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China.
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Ilyazova A, Blazheva D, Slavchev A, Krastanov A. In vitro simulation of the gastrointestinal tract environment and its interaction with probiotic lactobacilli. BIO WEB OF CONFERENCES 2022. [DOI: 10.1051/bioconf/20224502003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The harshest conditions of the human gastrointestinal tract were simulated in order to study probiotic bacteria in their intended environment. Eight Lactobacillus strains were cultivated in MRS broth with added bile in different concentrations and their growth was monitored as optical density. The gathered data was used to determine the MIC of bile for each strain. The recovery of the strains in MRS broth after 3 h in simulated gastric juice solution (pH 1.8, 5000 U/cm3 pepsin) was investigated. Lactobacillus gasseri S20 exhibited the best survival rate and reached OD 600 0,490, while Lactobacillus acidophilus S11 could not survive the conditions of the stomach (OD 600 0,076).
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Ilyazova A, Blazheva D, Slavchev A, Krastanov A. Study on the effect of sublethal concentrations of antimicrobials on the growth and development of probiotic lactobacilli. BIO WEB OF CONFERENCES 2022. [DOI: 10.1051/bioconf/20224502002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of sublethal concentrations of 5 antibiotics (tetracycline, erythromycin, penicillin G, lincomycin, ciprofloxacin) and 2 preservatives (benzoic and sorbic acid) on the growth and development of 8 probiotic Lactobacillus strains. All lactobacilli were subjected to a large range of concentrations, growth curves were plotted and MICs were determined for each antimicrobial. The results showed correlation between the sublethal concentrations and the growth rate of the studied microorganisms. Based on the obtained data two groups of strains could be defined – sensitive and relatively resistant. The first group includes L. bulgaricus S2. L. bulgaricus S4. L. bulgaricus S19 and L. gasseri S20. The most resistant of this group was L. gasseri S20. The second group showed more sensitivity and the most affected by the antimicrobials was L. bulgaricus S28.
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Characterization and Viability Prediction of Commercial Probiotic Supplements under Temperature and Concentration Conditioning Factors by NIR Spectroscopy. FERMENTATION-BASEL 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/fermentation8020066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The quality of probiotics has been associated with bacteria and yeast strains’ contents and their stability against conditioning factors. Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), as a non-destructive, fast, real-time, and cost-effective analytical technique, can provide some advantages over more traditional food quality control methods in quality evaluation. The aim of our study was to evaluate the applicability of NIRS to the characterization and viability prediction of three commercial probiotic food supplement powders containing lactic acid bacteria (LAB) subjected to concentration and temperature conditioning factors. For each probiotic, 3 different concentrations were considered, and besides normal preparation (25 °C, control), samples were subjected to heat treatment at 60 or 90 °C and left to cool down until reaching room temperature prior to further analysis. Overall, after applying chemometrics to the NIR spectra, the obtained principal component analysis-based linear discriminant analysis (PCA-LDA) classification models showed a high accuracy in both recognition and prediction. The temperature has an important impact on the discrimination of samples. According to the concentration, the best models were identified for the 90 °C temperature treatment, reaching 100% average correct classification for recognition and over 90% for prediction. However, the prediction accuracy decreased substantially at lower temperatures. For the 25°C temperature treatment, the prediction accuracy decreased to nearly 60% for 2 of the 3 probiotics. Moreover, according to the temperature level, both the recognition and prediction accuracies were close to 100%. Additionally, the partial least square regression (PLSR) model achieved respectable values for the prediction of the colony-forming units (log CFU/g) of the probiotic samples, with a determination coefficient for prediction (R2Pr) of 0.82 and root mean square error for prediction (RMSEP) of 0.64. The results of our study show that NIRS is a fast, reliable, and promising alternative to the conventional microbiology technique for the characterization and prediction of the viability of probiotic supplement drink preparations.
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Kovacs Z, Muncan J, Ohmido N, Bazar G, Tsenkova R. Water Spectral Patterns Reveals Similarities and Differences in Rice Germination and Induced Degenerated Callus Development. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 10:1832. [PMID: 34579366 PMCID: PMC8471901 DOI: 10.3390/plants10091832] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2021] [Revised: 08/29/2021] [Accepted: 08/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In vivo monitoring of rice (Oryza sativa L.) seed germination and seedling growth under general conditions in closed Petri dishes containing agar base medium at room temperature (temperature = 24.5 ± 1 °C, relative humidity = 76 ± 7% (average ± standard deviation)), and induced degenerated callus formation with plant growth regulator, were performed using short-wavelength near-infrared spectroscopy and aquaphotomics over A period of 26 days. The results of spectral analysis suggest changes in water absorbances due to the production of common metabolites, as well as increases in biomass and the sizes of the samples. Quantitative models built to predict the day of the development provided better accuracy for rice seedlings growth compared to callus formation. Eight common water bands were identified as presenting prominent changes in the absorbance pattern. The water matrix of only rice seedlings showed three developmental stages: firstly expressing a predominantly weakly hydrogen-bonded state, then a more strongly hydrogen-bonded state, and then, again, a weakly hydrogen-bonded state at the end. In rice callus induction and proliferation, no similar change in water absorbance pattern was observed. The presented findings indicate the potential of aquaphotomics for the in vivo detection of degeneration in cell development.
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- Zoltan Kovacs
- Department of Measurements and Process Control, Institute of Food Science and Technology, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Somlói út 14-16, 1118 Budapest, Hungary
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- Biomeasurement Technology Laboratory, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-8501, Hyogo, Japan;
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- Department of Human Environmental Science, Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-8501, Hyogo, Japan;
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- ADEXGO Ltd., Lapostelki u. 13, 8230 Balatonfüred, Hungary;
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- Biomeasurement Technology Laboratory, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-8501, Hyogo, Japan;
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Tian Y, Gao X, Qi WL, Wang Y, Wang X, Zhou J, Lu D, Chen B. Advances in differentiation and identification of foodborne bacteria using near infrared spectroscopy. ANALYTICAL METHODS : ADVANCING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS 2021; 13:2558-2566. [PMID: 34095906 DOI: 10.1039/d1ay00124h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Rapid and sensitive detection of foodborne bacteria is a growing concern for ensuring safe food supply and preventing human foodborne infections. It is difficult for conventional methods to meet these detection requirements because they are often tedious and time-consuming. In the recent years, near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has been found to be a promising method for all sorts of analyses in microbiology due to its highly specific absorption signature and non-destructive measurements. In this review, we first briefly introduce the fundamental and basic operational procedure of NIR spectroscopy for foodborne bacteria detection. Then we summarize the main advances and contributions of this technique in the study of foodborne bacteria. Finally, we conclude that much work still remains to be done before NIR spectroscopy really becomes a viable alternative in the field of microbiological characterization.
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- Yanlong Tian
- School of Food and Biological Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, PR China.
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This review focuses on the effects of structured water (SW) on animals when it is consumed on a daily basis. SW is liquid water that is given altered H-bonding structure by treatment with various forms of energy including magnetic fields and light. While most of the research has been conducted on 'magnetized' water, which has structure of short duration, recent research has examined effects of a SW with stability of at least 3.5 mo. A variety of laboratory and farm animals have been studied over the past 20 yr. Consistent (3 or more studies) responses among animals consuming SW for 1 mo or more include increased rate of growth, reduced markers of oxidative stress, improved glycemic and insulinemic responses in diabetics, improved blood lipid profile, improved semen and spermatozoa quality, and increased tissue conductivity as measured using bioelectrical impedance analysis. While it is known that fluids in and around cells and molecules are structured, it remains unknown if this endogenous water structuring is influenced by drinking SWs. The mechanisms by which SW affects biological systems are unknown and require investigation. Effects of SW, when taken up by biological systems, are likely associated with altered water structuring around biological surfaces, such as proteins and membranes.
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Real-Time Monitoring of Yogurt Fermentation Process by Aquaphotomics Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. SENSORS 2020; 21:s21010177. [PMID: 33383861 PMCID: PMC7795981 DOI: 10.3390/s21010177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2020] [Revised: 12/24/2020] [Accepted: 12/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Automated quality control could have a substantial economic impact on the dairy industry. At present, monitoring of yogurt production is performed by sampling for microbiological and physicochemical measurements. In this study, Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) is proposed for non-invasive automated control of yogurt production and better understanding of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) fermentation. UHT (ultra-high temperature) sterilized milk was inoculated with Bulgarian yogurt and placed into a quartz cuvette (1 mm pathlength) and test-tubes. Yogurt absorbance spectra (830-2500 nm) were acquired every 15 min, and pH, in the respective test-tubes, was measured every 30 min, during 8 h of fermentation. Spectral data showed substantial baseline and slope changes with acidification. These variations corresponded to respective features of the microbiological growth curve showing water structural changes, protein denaturation, and coagulation of milk. Moving Window Principal Component Analysis (MWPCA) was applied in the spectral range of 954-1880 nm to detect absorbance bands where most variations in the loading curves were caused by LAB fermentation. Characteristic wavelength regions related to the observed physical and multiple chemical changes were identified. The results proved that NIRS is a valuable tool for real-time monitoring and better understanding of the yogurt fermentation process.
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Lakshmanan R, Kalaimurugan D, Sivasankar P, Arokiyaraj S, Venkatesan S. Identification and characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa derived bacteriocin for industrial applications. Int J Biol Macromol 2020; 165:2412-2418. [PMID: 33132130 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.10.126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2020] [Revised: 10/11/2020] [Accepted: 10/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Drug resistance has become a major threat due to the frequent use of commercial antibiotics and there is an urgent need to combat this problem. Having this in mind, the present research was aimed at developing a novel P. aeruginosa puBac bacteriocin molecule. The bacteriocin was purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation followed by Sepharose FF and Sephadex G15 column purification and the purified bacteriocin has been reported to have the molar mass of 43 kDa. The findings of the optimization showed that 3500 AU/mL of bacteriocin was obtained at 37 °C, 3410 AU/mL of bacteriocin at 6.5 pH and 3780 AU/mL of bacteriocin at 48 h of incubation time. In addition, 3863 AU/mL of bacteriocin activity was obtained with Tween-80 followed by 3789 AU/mL with a concentration of 2% NaCl and 4200 AU/mL for Fe2+. PuBac bacteriocin has been shown to have a significant effect on test pathogens. For example, E. coli was found to have 3.6 μM of MIC, followed by Staphylococcus sp. with 6.15 μM of MIC and Bacillus sp. with a 7.5 μM of MIC. The remarkable properties of bacteriocin suggest that it could be used in various pharmaceutical and food industries.
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- Ramasamy Lakshmanan
- Department of Environmental Science, School of Life Sciences, Periyar University, Salem 636011, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Environmental Science, School of Life Sciences, Periyar University, Salem 636011, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Environmental Science, School of Life Sciences, Periyar University, Salem 636011, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Sejong University, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Environmental Science, School of Life Sciences, Periyar University, Salem 636011, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Electronic Nose for Monitoring Odor Changes of Lactobacillus Species during Milk Fermentation and Rapid Selection of Probiotic Candidates. Foods 2020; 9:foods9111539. [PMID: 33114501 PMCID: PMC7692492 DOI: 10.3390/foods9111539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2020] [Revised: 10/16/2020] [Accepted: 10/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Probiotic bacteria have been associated with a unique production of aroma compounds in fermented foods but rapid methods for discriminating between foods containing probiotic, moderately probiotic, or non-probiotic bacteria remain aloof. An electronic nose (e-nose) is a high-sensitivity instrument capable of non-invasive volatile measurements of foods. In our study, we applied the e-nose to differentiate probiotic, moderately probiotic, and non-probiotic Lactobacillus bacteria strains at different fermentation time points (0th, 4th, and 11th) of milk fermentation. The pH of the changing milk medium was monitored with their corresponding increase in microbial cell counts. An e-nose with two gas chromatographic columns was used to develop classification models for the different bacteria groups and time points and to monitor the formation of the aromatic compounds during the fermentation process. Results of the e-nose showed good classification accuracy of the different bacteria groups at the 0th (74.44% for column 1 and 82.78% for column 2), the 4th (89.44% for column 1 and 92.22% for column 2), and the 11th (81.67% for column 1 and 81.67% for column 2) hour of fermentation. The loading vectors of the classification models showed the importance of some specific aroma compounds formed during the fermentation. Results show that aroma monitoring of the fermentation process with the e-nose is a promising and reliable analytical method for the rapid classification of bacteria strains according to their probiotic activity and for the monitoring of aroma changes during the fermentation process.
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Yakubu HG, Kovacs Z, Toth T, Bazar G. The recent advances of near-infrared spectroscopy in dairy production-a review. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr 2020; 62:810-831. [PMID: 33043681 DOI: 10.1080/10408398.2020.1829540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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One of the major issues confronting the dairy industry is the efficient evaluation of the quality of feed, milk and dairy products. Over the years, the use of rapid analytical methods in the dairy industry has become imperative. This is because of the documented evidence of adulteration, microbial contamination and the influence of feed on the quality of milk and dairy products. Because of the delays involved in the use of wet chemistry methods during the evaluation of these products, rapid analytical techniques such as near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) has gained prominence and proven to be an efficient tool, providing instant results. The technique is rapid, nondestructive, precise and cost-effective, compared with other laboratory techniques. Handheld NIRS devices are easily used on the farm to perform quality control measures on an incoming feed from suppliers, during feed preparation, milking and processing of cheese, butter and yoghurt. This ensures that quality feed, milk and other dairy products are obtained. This review considers research articles published in reputable journals which explored the possible application of NIRS in the dairy industry. Emphasis was on what quality parameters were easily measured with NIRS, and the limitations in some instances.
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- Haruna Gado Yakubu
- Department of Nutritional Science and Production Technology, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Szent István University, Kaposvár, Hungary
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- Department of Physics and Control, Faculty of Food Science, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Agricultural and Food Research Centre, Széchenyi István University, Győr, Hungary.,Adexgo Kft, Balatonfüred, Hungary
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- Department of Nutritional Science and Production Technology, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Szent István University, Kaposvár, Hungary.,Adexgo Kft, Balatonfüred, Hungary
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Kovacs Z, Pollner B, Bazar G, Muncan J, Tsenkova R. A Novel Tool for Visualization of Water Molecular Structure and Its Changes, Expressed on the Scale of Temperature Influence. Molecules 2020; 25:molecules25092234. [PMID: 32397462 PMCID: PMC7248758 DOI: 10.3390/molecules25092234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2020] [Revised: 04/30/2020] [Accepted: 05/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Aquaphotomics utilizes water-light interaction for in-depth exploration of water, its structure and role in aqueous and biologic systems. The aquagram, a major analytical tool of aquaphotomics, allows comparison of water molecular structures of different samples by comparing their respective absorbance spectral patterns. Temperature is the strongest perturbation of water changing almost all water species. To better interpret and understand spectral patterns, the objective of this work was to develop a novel, temperature-scaled aquagram that provides standardized information about changes in water molecular structure caused by solutes, with its effects translated to those which would have been caused by respective temperature changes. NIR spectra of Milli-Q water in the temperature range of 20–70 °C and aqueous solutions of potassium chloride in concentration range of 1 to 1000 mM were recorded to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed novel tool. The obtained results presented the influence of salt on the water molecular structure expressed as the equivalent effect of temperature in degrees of Celsius. The temperature-based aquagrams showed the well-known structure breaking and structure making effects of salts on water spectral pattern, for the first time presented in the terms of temperature influence on pure water. This new method enables comparison of spectral patterns providing a universal tool for evaluation of various bio-aqueous systems which can provide better insight into the system’s functionality.
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- Zoltan Kovacs
- Department of Physics and Control, Faculty of Food Science, Szent István University, H-1118 Budapest, Hungary
- Correspondence: (Z.K.); (R.T.); Tel.: +36-1-305-7623 (Z.K.); +81-78-803-5911 (R.T.)
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- Department for Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Medical University of Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria;
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- Department of Nutritional Science and Production Technology, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Kaposvar University, H-7400 Kaposvar, Hungary;
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- Biomeasurement Technology Laboratory, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Kobe 657-8501, Japan;
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- Biomeasurement Technology Laboratory, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Kobe 657-8501, Japan;
- Correspondence: (Z.K.); (R.T.); Tel.: +36-1-305-7623 (Z.K.); +81-78-803-5911 (R.T.)
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Muncan J, Tsenkova R. Aquaphotomics-From Innovative Knowledge to Integrative Platform in Science and Technology. Molecules 2019; 24:molecules24152742. [PMID: 31357745 PMCID: PMC6695961 DOI: 10.3390/molecules24152742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2019] [Revised: 07/25/2019] [Accepted: 07/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Aquaphotomics is a young scientific discipline based on innovative knowledge of water molecular network, which as an intrinsic part of every aqueous system is being shaped by all of its components and the properties of the environment. With a high capacity for hydrogen bonding, water molecules are extremely sensitive to any changes the system undergoes. In highly aqueous systems-especially biological-water is the most abundant molecule. Minute changes in system elements or surroundings affect multitude of water molecules, causing rearrangements of water molecular network. Using light of various frequencies as a probe, the specifics of water structure can be extracted from the water spectrum, indirectly providing information about all the internal and external elements influencing the system. The water spectral pattern hence becomes an integrative descriptor of the system state. Aquaphotomics and the new knowledge of water originated from the field of near infrared spectroscopy. This technique resulted in significant findings about water structure-function relationships in various systems contributing to a better understanding of basic life phenomena. From this foundation, aquaphotomics started integration with other disciplines into systematized science from which a variety of applications ensued. This review will present the basics of this emerging science and its technological potential.
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- Jelena Muncan
- Biomedical Engineering Department, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
- Biomeasurement Technology Laboratory, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan
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- Biomeasurement Technology Laboratory, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan.
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Kuroki S, Tsenkova R, Moyankova D, Muncan J, Morita H, Atanassova S, Djilianov D. Water molecular structure underpins extreme desiccation tolerance of the resurrection plant Haberlea rhodopensis. Sci Rep 2019; 9:3049. [PMID: 30816196 PMCID: PMC6395626 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-39443-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2018] [Accepted: 01/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Haberlea rhodopensis is a resurrection plant with an extremely high desiccation tolerance. Even after long periods of almost full desiccation, its physiological functions are recovered shortly upon re-watering. In order to identify physiological strategies which contribute to its remarkable drought stress tolerance we used near infrared spectroscopy to investigate the state of water in the leaves of this plant and compared it to its relative, non-resurrection plant species Deinostigma eberhardtii. Here we show, using a novel aquaphotomics spectral analysis, that H. rhodopensis performs a dynamic regulation of water molecular structure during dehydration directed at drastic decrease of free water molecules, increase of water molecules with 4 hydrogen bonds, and a massive accumulation of water dimers in the full desiccation stage. Our findings suggest that changes in water structure mirror the changes in major metabolites and antioxidants which together constitute a robust defense system underlying the desiccation tolerance of the resurrection plant, while the water dimer may hold special importance for the “drying without dying” ability.
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- Shinichiro Kuroki
- Laboratory for Information Engineering of Bioproduction, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan
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- Biomeasurement Technology Laboratory, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan.
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- Abiotic stress, AgroBioInstitute, Agricultural Academy, 8 Dragan Tzankov Blvd., 1164, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Nanolab, Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Kraljice Marije 16, Belgrade, 11120, Serbia
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- NIRECO CORPORATION, 2951-4, Ishikawa machi, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Physics, Faculty of Agriculture, Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
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- Abiotic stress, AgroBioInstitute, Agricultural Academy, 8 Dragan Tzankov Blvd., 1164, Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Tsenkova R, Munćan J, Pollner B, Kovacs Z. Essentials of Aquaphotomics and Its Chemometrics Approaches. Front Chem 2018; 6:363. [PMID: 30211151 PMCID: PMC6121091 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2018.00363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2018] [Accepted: 07/30/2018] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Aquaphotomics is a novel scientific discipline involving the study of water and aqueous systems. Using light-water interaction, it aims to extract information about the structure of water, composed of many different water molecular conformations using their absorbance bands. In aquaphotomics analysis, specific water structures (presented as water absorbance patterns) are related to their resulting functions in the aqueous systems studied, thereby building an aquaphotome-a database of water absorbance bands and patterns correlating specific water structures to their specific functions. Light-water interaction spectroscopic methods produce complex multidimensional spectral data, which require data processing and analysis to extract hidden information about the structure of water presented by its absorbance bands. The process of extracting information from water spectra in aquaphotomics requires a field-specific approach. It starts with an appropriate experimental design and execution to ensure high-quality spectral signals, followed by a multitude of spectral analysis, preprocessing and chemometrics methods to remove unwanted influences and extract water absorbance spectral pattern related to the perturbation of interest through the identification of activated water absorbance bands found among the common, consistently repeating and highly influential variables in all analytical models. The objective of this paper is to introduce the field of aquaphotomics and describe aquaphotomics multivariate analysis methodology developed during the last decade. Through a worked-out example of analysis of potassium chloride solutions supported by similar approaches from the existing aquaphotomics literature, the provided instruction should give enough information about aquaphotomics analysis i.e. to design and perform the experiment and data analysis as well as to represent water absorbance spectral pattern using various forms of aquagrams-specifically designed aquaphotomics graphs. The explained methodology is derived from analysis of near infrared spectral data of aqueous systems and will offer a useful and new tool for extracting data from informationally rich water spectra in any region. It is the hope of the authors that with this new tool at the disposal of scientists and chemometricians, pharmaceutical and biomedical spectroscopy will substantially progress beyond its state-of-the-art applications.
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- Roumiana Tsenkova
- Biomeasurement Technology Laboratory, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
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- Biomeasurement Technology Laboratory, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
- Nanolab, Biomedical Engineering Department, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department for Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Physics and Control, Faculty of Food Science, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary
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Gurbanov R, Gozen AG, Severcan F. Rapid classification of heavy metal-exposed freshwater bacteria by infrared spectroscopy coupled with chemometrics using supervised method. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2018; 189:282-290. [PMID: 28823969 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2017.08.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2017] [Revised: 08/08/2017] [Accepted: 08/13/2017] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Rapid, cost-effective, sensitive and accurate methodologies to classify bacteria are still in the process of development. The major drawbacks of standard microbiological, molecular and immunological techniques call for the possible usage of infrared (IR) spectroscopy based supervised chemometric techniques. Previous applications of IR based chemometric methods have demonstrated outstanding findings in the classification of bacteria. Therefore, we have exploited an IR spectroscopy based chemometrics using supervised method namely Soft Independent Modeling of Class Analogy (SIMCA) technique for the first time to classify heavy metal-exposed bacteria to be used in the selection of suitable bacteria to evaluate their potential for environmental cleanup applications. Herein, we present the powerful differentiation and classification of laboratory strains (Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus) and environmental isolates (Gordonia sp. and Microbacterium oxydans) of bacteria exposed to growth inhibitory concentrations of silver (Ag), cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb). Our results demonstrated that SIMCA was able to differentiate all heavy metal-exposed and control groups from each other with 95% confidence level. Correct identification of randomly chosen test samples in their corresponding groups and high model distances between the classes were also achieved. We report, for the first time, the success of IR spectroscopy coupled with supervised chemometric technique SIMCA in classification of different bacteria under a given treatment.
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- Rafig Gurbanov
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bilecik S.E. University, 11230 Bilecik, Turkey; Department of Biochemistry, Middle East Technical University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey; Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Altinbas University, 34217 Istanbul, Turkey.
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Kammies TL, Manley M, Gouws PA, Williams PJ. Differentiation of foodborne bacteria using NIR hyperspectral imaging and multivariate data analysis. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2016; 100:9305-9320. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-016-7801-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2016] [Revised: 06/18/2016] [Accepted: 08/09/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Water Properties of Soft Contact Lenses: A Comparative Near-Infrared Study of Two Hydrogel Materials. INT J POLYM SCI 2016. [DOI: 10.1155/2016/3737916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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The functionality of soft contact lenses depends strongly on the water content and their water-transport ability. This study was conducted in order to examine the state of water in two sets of soft contact lenses: VSO38, pHEMA Filcon I 1, and VSO50, copolymer of HEMA and VP Filcon II 1 (HEMA = 2-hydroxy-ethyl methacrylate; VP = vinyl pyrrolidone). Hydrogel lenses were studied using near-infrared spectroscopy and the novel Aquaphotomics approach in order to determine the state of water in materials based on their near-infrared spectra. Aquaphotomics approach investigates absorption at specific vibrational bands of water’s covalent and hydrogen bonds which can provide information on how the water structure changes with the structural change of the polymer network. Principal component analysis and specific star-chart “aquagram” were used to analyse water spectral pattern in hydrogel materials. The findings show that material VSO38 has water predominantly organized in bound state, while material with higher water content, VSO50, has more free and weakly hydrogen bonded water. Our findings define in detail exact water species existing and interacting with the polymer network. The results show qualitative and quantitative possibilities of Aquaphotomics for better modelling and understanding water behaviour in hydrogel materials.
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