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.
Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-3804, USA.
Stephanie R
SR
Dukovcic
Janine R
JR
Hutchison
Janine E
JE
Trempy
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*