Potential of the melanophore pigment response for detection of bacterial toxicity.
Chromatophore cells have been investigated as potential biodetectors for function-based detection of chemically and biologically toxic substances. Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (chinook salmon) melanophores, a chromatophore cell type containing brown pigment, rapidly detect the salmonid pathogens Aeromonas salmonicida, Yersinia ruckeri, and Flavobacterium psychrophilum and the human pathogen Bacillus cereus.
Dukovcic
Stephanie R
SR
Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-3804, USA.
Hutchison
Janine R
JR
Trempy
Janine E
JE
D048409:Aeromonas salmonicida / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D000818:Animals; D001409:Bacillus cereus / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D015374:Biosensing Techniques; D005417:Flavobacterium / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D008547:Melanophores / Q000382:microbiology*; D015388:Organelles / Q000378:metabolism*; D012474:Salmon / Q000382:microbiology*; D015007:Yersinia / Q000472:pathogenicity*