Detecção de Pseudomonas fluorescens em leite cru pela reação em cadeia da polimerase

• Autor(a) principal: Machado, Solimar Gonçalves
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/5348
• topic: Psicotróficos; Proteólise; PCR; Psychrotrophic; Proteolysis; PCR; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::CIENCIA E TECNOLOGIA DE ALIMENTOS::CIENCIA DE ALIMENTOS::MICROBIOLOGIA DE ALIMENTOS

Among the psychrotrophic micro-organisms that are able to grow during refrigeration, some of them produce thermostable proteases which can cause many technological problems in the dairy industry. The food industries need to high throughput methods for the quality control raw of milk, thus, fast and sensitive methods for psychrotrophic detection, specially Pseudomonas fluorescens, predominant specie, are economically interesting to the dairy industry. In order to establish a protocol for the detection of P. fluorescens by using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), five DNA extraction methods for milk samples, two target genes for the PCR amplification and the detection limit in raw milk and sterilized milk inoculated with P. fluorescens were evaluated. A commercial DNA extraction kit and a modified filtration method were the most appropriate for successfully bacterial DNA extraction from milk samples. These methods were selected and used for the detection of the target genes. Nevertheless, the modified filtration method was more efficient showing a lower detection limit in raw milk and sterilized milk inoculated with P. fluorescens. By means of PCR amplification of the 16S rRNA target gene, an 850 bp amplicon was observed and it was possible to detect as few as 102 UFC/ml of P. fluorescens from inoculated milk. In raw milk samples, Pseudomonas and psychrotrophic bacteria were detected at 106 UFC/mL and 107 to 109 UFC/mL, respectively. The relationship between the psychrotrophic population and the degradation of milk proteins was evaluated by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). The results showed the proteolysis degree in raw milk doesn t depend just on the psychrotrophic bacteria count.