title: Inactivation of Mucor plumbeus by the combined actions of chitinase and high hydrostatic pressure.
abstract: Sporangiospores were treated with high hydrostatic pressure and/or fungal chitinase in order to study the inhibition of germination and growth of the food spoiling mold Mucor plumbeus. Total fungal inhibition was obtained either at 4.0 kbar or by 10 U/ml of chitinase from Penicillium janthinellum. A pretreatment with 1 U/ml of the same chitinase reduced the pressure necessary to obtain complete spore inhibition to 3 kbar.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Agrobiologia e Agrochimica, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy. fenice@unitus.it
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fenice
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Di Giambattista
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Leuba
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Federici
mesh_terms: D002688:Chitinases / Q000378:metabolism*; D005516:Food Microbiology; D005519:Food Preservation / Q000379:methods*; D006874:Hydrostatic Pressure; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D009089:Mucor / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000502:physiology; D010407:Penicillium / Q000201:enzymology; D013172:Spores, Fungal / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology; D013662:Tea / Q000382:microbiology
chemical_list: D013662:Tea; D002688:Chitinases