SNP Array for Small-Shrimp (Genus ) Origin Determination Using Machine Learning.

Accurate origin determination of seafood is crucial for consumer trust and safety. This study was performed to develop a machine learning-based single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis technique to determine the origin of species in salted small-shrimp products. Mitochondrial DNA (COI and 16S rRNA) analysis revealed genetic variations among species and origins.

Classification of Takifugu rubripes, T. chinensis and T. pseudommus by genotyping-by-sequencing.

Takifugu rubripes is more expensive than other species of the genus because of its high protein content and special flavor. However, it is easily confused with imported T. chinensis and T.

Bacterial virulence analysis using brine shrimp as an infection model in relation to the importance of quorum sensing and proteases.

Brine shrimp are aquatic crustaceans belonging to a genus of Artemia. This organism is widely used for testing the toxicity of chemicals. In this study, brine shrimp were evaluated as an infection model organism to study bacterial virulence.

Protease IV, a quorum sensing-dependent protease of Pseudomonas aeruginosa modulates insect innate immunity.

In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, quorum sensing (QS) plays an essential role in pathogenesis and the QS response controls many virulence factors. Using a mealworm, Tenebrio molitor as a host model, we found that Protease IV, a QS-regulated exoprotease of P. aeruginosa functions as a key virulence effector causing the melanization and death of T.

Quorum sensing-dependent metalloprotease VvpE is important in the virulence of Vibrio vulnificus to invertebrates.

Vibrio vulnificus, a Gram-negative bacterium, is an opportunistic human pathogen responsible for fatal septicemia caused by contaminated sea foods in eastern Asia. Quorum sensing (QS) is a cell-density dependent gene regulation mechanism that controls the expression of many virulence genes in various bacteria and V. vulnificus has been also suggested to express their virulence genes through the QS system.

Pleiotropic effects of acyltransferases on various virulence-related phenotypes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an opportunistic pathogen causing various infections, expresses various virulence factors under the control of quorum sensing (QS), a cell density-sensing mechanism. Because the major signal molecules of QS are acyl homoserine lactones (acyl-HSLs), acyltransferases, the enzymes that act upon acyl group transfer could affect the QS signaling and QS-related virulence phenotypes. In this study, we overexpressed acyltransferases of P.