Noriyuki Morii
Kao Corporation
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Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2016
Takehisa Yano; Yoshiko Miyahara; Noriyuki Morii; Tetsuya Okano; Hiromi Kubota
ABSTRACT The genus Methylobacterium tolerates hygiene agents like benzalkonium chloride (BAC), and infection with this organism is an important public health issue. Here, we found that the combination of BAC with particular alcohols at nonlethal concentrations in terms of their solitary uses significantly reduced bacterial viability after only 5 min of exposure. Among the alcohols, Raman spectroscopic analyses showed that pentanol (pentyl alcohol [PeA]) and benzyl alcohol (BzA) accelerated the cellular accumulation of BAC. Fluorescence spectroscopic assays and morphological assays with giant vesicles indicated that PeA rarely attacked membrane structures, while BzA increased the membrane fluidity and destabilized the structures. Other fluorescent spectroscopic assays indicated that PeA and BzA inactivate bacterial membrane proteins, including an efflux pump for BAC transportation. These findings suggested that the inactivation of membrane proteins by PeA and BzA led to the cellular accumulation but that only BzA also enhanced BAC penetration by membrane fluidization at nonlethal concentrations.
Archive | 2001
Shin Aihara; Noriyuki Morii; Kazunori Tsukuda; Hiroyuki Yamada
Archive | 2005
Takafumi Mizukoshi; Noriyuki Morii; Yosuke Nakagawa; Kenichi Shiba; 陽介 中川; 紀行 森井; 啓文 水越; 健一 芝
Archive | 2005
Yosuke Nakagawa; Noriyuki Morii; Kazunori Tsukuda; Kenichi Shiba; Hirofumi Mizukoshi
Archive | 2005
Yosuke Nakagawa; Noriyuki Morii; Kazunori Tsukuda; Kenichi Shiba; Hirofumi Mizukoshi
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Masaki Tosaka; Yasuyuki Fujii; Noriyuki Morii; Katsuhiko Deguchi
Archive | 1995
Yuichi Sakamoto; Taeko Hayase; Kazutoshi Ide; Masaki Tosaka; Noriyuki Morii; Tomoko Shibata
Archive | 2007
Eiichi Kogure; Yasuhiko Makino; Noriyuki Morii; Kazukuni Tsukuda; 一訓 佃; 栄一 小暮; 紀行 森井; 康彦 牧野
Archive | 1998
Takumi Inoue; Kazunori Tsukuda; Mitsuru Uno; Noriyuki Morii
Archive | 1998
Takumi Inoue; Kazunori Tsukuda; Mitsuru Uno; Noriyuki Morii