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Maria A. Andersson
Researcher at Aalto University
Publications - 87
Citations - 3941
Maria A. Andersson is an academic researcher from Aalto University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Bacillus cereus & Cereulide. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 83 publications receiving 3543 citations. Previous affiliations of Maria A. Andersson include University of Helsinki.
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Emetic toxin formation of Bacillus cereus is restricted to a single evolutionary lineage of closely related strains
Monika Ehling-Schulz,Birgitta Svensson,Marie-Hélène Guinebretière,Toril Lindbäck,Maria A. Andersson,Anja Schulz,Martina Fricker,Anders Christiansson,Per Einar Granum,Erwin Märtlbauer,Christophe Nguyen-The,Mirja Salkinoja-Salonen,Siegfried Scherer +12 more
TL;DR: The data provide evidence for a clonal population structure of cereulide-producing emetic B. cereus and indicate that emetic strains represent a highly clonal complex within a potentially panmictic or weakly clonal background populationructure of the species.
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Identification and Partial Characterization of the Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetase Gene Responsible for Cereulide Production in Emetic Bacillus cereus
Monika Ehling-Schulz,Natasa Vukov,Anja Schulz,Ranad Shaheen,Maria A. Andersson,Erwin Märtlbauer,Siegfried Scherer +6 more
Abstract: Cereulide, a depsipeptide structurally related to valinomycin, is responsible for the emetic type of gastrointestinal disease caused by Bacillus cereus. Due to its chemical structure, (d-O-Leu-d-Ala-l-O-Val-l-Val)3, cereulide might be synthesized nonribosomally. Therefore, degenerate PCR primers targeted to conserved sequence motifs of known nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) genes were used to amplify gene fragments from a cereulide-producing B. cereus strain. Sequence analysis of one of the amplicons revealed a DNA fragment whose putative gene product showed significant homology to valine activation NRPS modules. The sequences of the flanking regions of this DNA fragment revealed a complete module that is predicted to activate valine, as well as a putative carboxyl-terminal thioesterase domain of the NRPS gene. Disruption of the peptide synthetase gene by insertion of a kanamycin cassette through homologous recombination produced cereulide-deficient mutants. The valine-activating module was highly conserved when sequences from nine emetic B. cereus strains isolated from diverse geographical locations were compared. Primers were designed based on the NRPS sequence, and the resulting PCR assay, targeting the ces gene, was tested by using a panel of 143 B. cereus group strains and 40 strains of other bacterial species showing PCR bands specific for only the cereulide-producing B. cereus strains.
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Quantitative analysis of cereulide, the emetic toxin of Bacillus cereus, produced under various conditions.
Max M. Häggblom,Max M. Häggblom,Camelia Apetroaie,Maria A. Andersson,Mirja Salkinoja-Salonen +4 more
TL;DR: A quantitative and sensitive chemical assay for cereulide, the heat-stable emetic toxin produced by Bacillus cereus, is developed based on high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) connected to ion trap mass spectrometry and a bioassay based on boar sperm motility inhibition was used.
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Ionophoretic properties and mitochondrial effects of cereulide
Raimo Mikkola,Nils-Erik L. Saris,Pavel A. Grigoriev,Maria A. Andersson,Mirja Salkinoja-Salonen +4 more
TL;DR: The emetic toxin of Bacillus cereus, found to cause immobilization of spermatozoa and swelling of their mitochondria, was purified and its structure found to be identical to the earlier known toxin cereulide.
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The Fusarium mycotoxins enniatins and beauvericin cause mitochondrial dysfunction by affecting the mitochondrial volume regulation, oxidative phosphorylation and ion homeostasis
TL;DR: The results indicate that the cellular toxicity targets of the enniatin mycotoxins are the mitochondrion and the homeostasis of potassium ions.