Electronic paramagnetic resonance investigation of the activity of Origanum vulgare L. essential oil on the Listeria monocytogenes membrane

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 149-157

  Serio, A ^a   Chiarini, M ^a   Tettamanti, E ^a   Paparella, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

EPR; essential oil activity; growth dynamics; Listeria monocytogenes; nitroxide spin labelling

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; CELL MEMBRANES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FLUIDITY; LISTERIA; MEMBRANES; METABOLISM; PARAMAGNETIC MATERIALS; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; RESONANCE; SODIUM; SPIN DYNAMICS;

BACTERIAL MEMBRANES; CELL DAMAGE; CELL RESPONSE; CYTOPLASMIC MEMBRANE; ELECTRONIC PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; ENERGY METABOLISM; GROWTH DYNAMICS; LAG PHASE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MEMBRANE MODIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; MONOCYTOGENES; NITROXIDES; ORDER PARAMETER; ORIGANUM VULGARE; RADICAL ELECTRONS; SODIUM AZIDE; VIABLE CELLS; VIABLE COUNT;

ESSENTIAL OILS;

ESSENTIAL OIL; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SODIUM AZIDE;

BACTERIUM; ESSENTIAL OIL; HERB; INORGANIC COMPOUND; METABOLISM; PARAMETERIZATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; OREGANO; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; ORIGANUM; PHOTOMETRY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CELL MEMBRANE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; OILS, VOLATILE; ORIGANUM; SODIUM AZIDE;

EID: 77954496166     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2010.02877.x     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Bakkali, F., Averbeck, S., Averbeck, D. Idaomar, M. (2008) Biological effects of essential oils - a review. Food Chem Toxicol 46, 446 475.
2. Bales, B.L., Lesin, E.S. Oppenheimer, S.B. (1977) On cell membrane lipid fluidity and plant lectin agglutinability. A spin label study of mouse ascites tumor cells. Biochim Biophys Acta 465, 400 407.
3. Berliner, L.J. (1998) Spin Labeling, The Next Millennium. Biological Magnetic Resonance, vol. 14.
4. Beumer, R.R., Te Giffel, M.C., Cox, L.J., Rombouts, F.M. Abee, T. (1994) Effect of exogenous proline, betaine and carnitine on growth of Listeria monocytogenes in a minimal medium. Appl Environ Microbiol 60, 1359 1363.
5. Bloom, M. Thewalt, J.L. (1995) Time and distance scales of membrane domain organization. Mol Membr Biol 12, 9 13.
6. Borbat, P.P., Costa-Filho, A.J., Earle, K.A., Moscicki, J.K. Freed, J.H. (2001) Electron spin resonance in studies of membranes and proteins. Science 291, 266 269.
7. Burt, S. (2004) Essential oils, their antibacterial properties and potential applications in foods-a review. Int J Food Microbiol 94, 223 253.
8. Carson, C.F., Mee, B.J. Riley, T.V. (2002) Mechanism of action of Melaleuca alternifolia (tea tree) oil on Staphylococcus aureus determined by time-kill, lysis, leakage, and salt tolerance assays and electron microscopy. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 46, 1914 1920.
9. Commission Regulation (2005) Commission Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005 of 15 November 2005 on microbiological criteria for foodstuffs. Off J Eur Commun L 338, 1 25.
10. Di Pasqua, R., Hoskins, N., Betts, G. Mauriello, G. (2006) Changes in membrane fatty acids composition of microbial cells induced by addiction of thymol, carvacrol, limonene, cinnamaldehyde, and eugenol in the growing media. J Agric Food Chem 54, 2745 2749.
11. Edidin, M. (2003) The state of lipid rafts: from model membranes to cells. Annu Rev Biophys Biomol Struct 32, 257 283.
12. Glover, R.E., Smith, R.R., Jones, M.V., Jackson, S.K. Rowlands, C.C. (1999) An EPR investigation of surfactant action on bacterial membranes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 177, 57 62.
13. Guillier, L., Pardon, P. Augustin, J.-C. (2005) Influence of stress on individual Lag time distributions of Listeria monocytogenes. Appl Environ Microbiol 71, 2940 2948.
14. Lambert, R.J.W., Skandamis, P.N., Coote, P. Nychas, G.-J.E. (2001) A study of the minimum inhibitory concentration and mode of action of oregano essential oil, thymol and carvacrol. J Appl Microbiol 91, 453 462.
15. Li, J., Chikindas, M.L., Ludescher, R.D. Montville, T.J. (2002) Temperature- and surfactant-induced membrane modifications that alter Listeria monocytogenes nisin sensitivity by different mechanisms. Appl Environ Microbiol 68, 5904 5910.
16. MacDonald, A.G. (1988) Application of the theory of homeoviscous adaptation to excitable membranes: pre-synaptic processes. Biochem J 256, 313 327.
17. Marsh, D. (1995) Lipid-protein interactions and heterogeneous lipid distribution in membranes. Mol Membr Biol 12, 59 64.
18. Mitchell, M.E. (1978) Carnitine metabolism in human subjects I. Normal metabolism. Am J Clin Nutr 31, 293 306.
19. Mukherjee, S. Maxfield, F.R. (2004) Membrane domains. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol 20, 839 866.
20. Mykytczuk, N.C.S., Trevors, J.T., Leduc, L.G. Ferroni, G.D. (2007) Fluorescence polarization in studies of bacterial cytoplasmic membrane fluidity under environmental stress. Prog Biophys Mol Biol 95, 60 82.
21. Nadon, C.A., Bowen, B.M., Wiedmann, M. Boor, K.J. (2002) Sigma B contributes to PrfA-mediated virulence in Listeria monocytogenes. Infect Immun 70, 3948 3952.
22. Paparella, A., Taccogna, L., Aguzzi, I., Chaves-López, C., Serio, A., Marsilio, F. Suzzi, G. (2008) Flow cytometric assessment of the antimicrobial activity of essential oils against Listeria monocytogenes. Food Control 19, 1174 1182.
23. Robinson, T.P., Ocio, M.J., Kaloti, A. McKey, B.M. (1998) The effect of growth environment on the lag phase of Listeria monocytogenes. Int J Food Microbiol 44, 83 92.
24. Sachidanandham, R. Yew-Hoong Gon, K. (2009) A dormancy state in non-spore forming bacteria. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 81, 927 941.
25. Sikkema, J., De Bont, J.A.M. Poolman, B. (1995) Mechanisms of membrane toxicity of hydrocarbons. Microbiol Rev 59, 201 222.
26. Simons, K. Ikonen, E. (1997) Functional rafts in cell membranes. Nature 387, 569 572.
27. Skandamis, P.N. Nychas, G.-J.E. (2001) Effect of oregano essential oil on microbiological and physico-chemical attributes of minced meat stored in air and modified atmospheres. J Appl Microbiol 91, 1011 1022.
28. Strancar, J., Sentjurc, M. Sachara, M. (2000) Fast and accurate characterization of biological membranes by EPR spectral simulations of nitroxides. J Magn Reson 142, 254 265.
29. Zwietering, M.H., de Koos, J.T., Hasenack, B.E., de Witt, J.C. van't Riet, K. (1991) Modeling of bacterial growth as a function of temperature. Appl Environ Microbiol 57, 1094 1101.