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Characterization Of A Active Yet Non Culturable Cells ( Maync )

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Characterisation of Metabolically Active yet Non-culturable Cells (MAyNC) Project Report,BIOT- 685 Directed Studies under Dr.Pillai Abstract eBeam technology uses high energy electrons produced from the commercial electricity by linear accelerators for applications in various fields such as food irradiation, vaccine development, wastewater treatment, biopolymers, therapeutics, etc. The objective of the project was to study the inactivation kinetics of Salmonella and Escherichia coli strains when exposed to 8.5 and 10 MeV eBeam. Microorganisms treated with a lethal dosage of eBeam tend to be metabolically active for a considerable period of time after their exposure to the radiation. The high energy eBeam breaks the bonds of the double stranded DNA and thereby hinders the replication of the micro-organism. Furthermore, the metabolic activity during different post-irradiation treatments was monitored using the AlamarBlue® Assay and the BacTiter-Glo™ Microbial Cell Viability Assay. The AlamarBlue® assay quantitates the metabolic activity by measuring the reductive and oxidative reactions in the cell while the latter assay measures the concentration of ATP in the cells. These assays are good indicators of the metabolic activity in the microbial cells since they measure two different aspects of the cell’s viability. Introduction: Electron beam (eBeam) is a form of ionizing radiation produced from electricity using accelerators.

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