Utilization of the compatible solutes sucrose and trehalose by purple sulfur and nonsulfur bacteria

1998 ◽  
Vol 44 (10) ◽  
pp. 974-979
Author(s):  
David T Welsh ◽  
Remy Guyoneaud ◽  
Pierre Caumette
Keyword(s):  
Specific Growth ◽  
Coastal Lagoons ◽  
Compatible Solutes ◽  
Growth Yield ◽  
Sugar Uptake ◽  
Purple Sulfur Bacteria ◽  
Purple Nonsulfur Bacteria ◽  
Sugar Utilization ◽  
Sulfur Bacteria ◽  
Specific Growth Rates

Owing to their ubiquity as compatible solutes, sucrose and trehalose and their constituent monosaccharides, glucose and fructose, may represent a significant source of carbon for the growth of other bacteria. We investigated sugar utilization by 34 strains of purple sulfur and nonsulfur bacteria isolated from coastal lagoons. Amongst the purple nonsulfur bacteria, sugar utilization was common with almost all strains utilizing the tested monosaccharides and 70 and 50% of strains utilizing sucrose and trehalose, respectively. Sugar utilization was rarer amongst the purple sulfur bacteria, with none of the strains using glucose or trehalose. Fructose, was utilized by 50% of isolates and sucrose was utilized only by strains of Thiorhodococcus. Surprisingly, although unable to use glucose directly, Thiorhodococcus strains used both the glucose and fructose moieties of sucrose and utilized glucose slowly in the presence of fructose, indicating that these strains may be impaired in glucose transport, rather than glucose metabolism per se. Disaccharide metabolism was dependent on sugar uptake and none of the strains produced trehalases or sucrases. Efficacy of sugar utilization varied widely with specific growth yield between 0.09 and 0.78 g dry weight·g sugar-1, and was dependent upon both the sugar and the strain. Similarly, specific growth rates were highly variable with strain and the sugar present and ranged between 5.4 and 0.5 × 10-2·h-1.Overall, data indicate that in natural high salinity ecosystems, purple sulfur and particularly purple nonsulfur bacteria may be able to efficiently exploit compatible solutes released to the environment by other members of the bacterial community.Key words: Chromatiaceae, purple sulfur bacteria, purple nonsulfur bacteria, sugar utilization.

Oscillating conditions for influencing the composition of mixed biological cultures

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 259-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bjarne R. Horntvedt ◽  
Morten Rambekk ◽  
Rune Bakke
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Specific Growth ◽  
Heterotrophic Bacteria ◽  
Bacterial Species ◽  
Rate Reduction ◽  
Similar Strategy ◽  
Sinusoidal Oscillations ◽  
Specific Growth Rates ◽  
Rate Limiting ◽  
Concentration Levels

This paper presents a strategy in which mixed biological cultures are exposed to oscillating concentration levels, to improve the potential for coexistence of desired bacterial species. A mechanistic mathematical model is constructed to investigate and illustrate this strategy. This paper is focused on competition between nitrifying, denitrifying and aerobic heterotrophic bacteria in a CSTR with sludge recycle. For nitrifying and aerobic heterotrophic cultures, the effect of sinusoidal oscillations in DO levels with an amplitude of 1.0 mg/l is a 16% specific growth rate reduction compared to that at a constant DO level. The denitrifiers growth rate is increased by an average of 59%, compared to the constant DO level situation. A similar strategy has been tested in a pilot plant. It is concluded that the influence on specific growth rates is a function of the amplitude of the oscillations. The effects are greatest when concentrations fluctuate around the half saturation concentration of the rate limiting component(s).

Effects of turbidity on prey consumption and growth in brook trout and implications for bioenergetics modeling

2001 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A Sweka ◽  
Kyle J Hartman
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rates ◽  
Brook Trout ◽  
Specific Growth ◽  
Abiotic Factors ◽  
Foraging Strategies ◽  
Turbid Water ◽  
Daily Consumption ◽  
Consumption Rates ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Specific Growth Rates

Brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) were held in an artificial stream to observe the influence of turbidity on mean daily consumption and specific growth rates. Treatment turbidity levels ranged from clear (<3.0 nephelometric turbidity units (NTU)) to very turbid water (> 40 NTU). Observed mean daily specific consumption rates were standardized to the mean weight of all brook trout tested. Turbidity had no significant effect on mean daily consumption, but specific growth rates decreased significantly as turbidity increased. Brook trout in turbid water became more active and switched foraging strategies from drift feeding to active searching. This switch was energetically costly and resulted in lower specific growth rates in turbid water as compared with clear water. Bioenergetics simulations were run to compare observed growth with that predicted by the model. Observed growth values fell below those predicted by the model and the difference increased as turbidity increased. Abiotic factors, such as turbidity, which bring about changes in the activity rates of fish, can have implications for the accuracy of predicted growth by bioenergetics models.

Sex Ratio and Sex-Specific Growth Rates of Immature Green Turtles, Chelonia mydas, in the Southern Bahamas

Copeia ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 1992 (4) ◽  
pp. 1098 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan B. Bolten ◽  
Karen A. Bjorndal ◽  
Janice S. Grumbles ◽  
David W. Owens
Keyword(s):  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Specific Growth ◽  
Chelonia Mydas ◽  
Green Turtles ◽  
Specific Growth Rates

Physiological and cell morphology adaptation ofBacillus subtilisat near-zero specific growth rates: a transcriptome analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 346-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wout Overkamp ◽  
Onur Ercan ◽  
Martijn Herber ◽  
Antonius J. A. van Maris ◽  
Michiel Kleerebezem ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Morphology ◽  
Transcriptome Analysis ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Specific Growth ◽  
Specific Growth Rates

Biology of Oscillatoria cf. chalybea, a 2-methylisoborneol producing blue-green alga of Mississippi catfish ponds

1995 ◽  
Vol 31 (11) ◽  
pp. 173-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. van der Ploeg ◽  
M. E. Dennis ◽  
M. Q. de Regt
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Specific Growth ◽  
Light Availability ◽  
Continuous Light ◽  
Light Cycle ◽  
Blue Green Alga ◽  
Continuous Cultures ◽  
Effects Of Temperature ◽  
Catfish Ponds ◽  
Specific Growth Rates

Relative abundance of Oscillatoria cf. chalybea was monitored during May-November, 1993, in 40 ponds at four catfish farms located 50-100 km apart in west central Mississippi, USA. The occurrence of O. cf.chalybea coincided with the period that water temperatures remained above 20°C. In 70% of ponds, O. cf.chalybea was present for a period of 2-20 weeks. The alga recurred in all ponds where it had been present in 1990 and 1991. The effects of temperature and light availability on growth rate and 2-methylisoborneol (MIB) production of O. cf. chalybea were studied in continuous cultures. At 28°C, maximum specific growth rates were 0.8 d−1 (24 h light) and 0.6 d−1 (14 h light :10 h dark). Algal cells contained less MIB when adapted to the shorter light cycle than when grown under continuous light. Specific growth rate of O. cf.chalybea dropped from 0.3 to 0.1 d−1 when temperature was changed from 21 to 19.5°C (14 h light).

scholarly journals Investigation of the Biological Treatability of Pistachio Processing Industry Wastewaters in a Batch-operated Aerobic Bioreactor

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sevtap Tırınk ◽  
Alper Nuhoğlu ◽  
Sinan Kul
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Parameters ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Specific Growth ◽  
Batch Reactor ◽  
The Other ◽  
Batch Experiments ◽  
Processing Industry ◽  
Specific Growth Rates ◽  
Biological Treatability ◽  
Best Fit

Abstract This study encompasses investigation of treatment of pistachio processing industry wastewaters in a batch reactor under aerobic conditions, calculation of kinetic parameters and comparison of different inhibition models. The mixed microorganism culture used in the study was adapted to pistachio processing industry wastewaters for nearly one month and then concentrations from 50-1000 mg L− 1 of pistachio processing industry wastewaters were added to the medium and treatment was investigated in batch experiments. The Andrews, Han-Levenspiel, Luong and Aiba biokinetic equations were chosen for the correlations between the concentration of pistachio processing industry wastewaters and specific growth rates, and the kinetic parameters in these biokinetic equations were calculated. The µmax, Ks and Ki parameters, included in the Aiba biokinetic equation providing best fit among the other equations, had values calculated as 0.25 h− 1, 19 mg L− 1, and 516 mg L− 1, respectively.

Phototrophic purple sulfur bacteria as heat engines in the South Andros Black Hole

2007 ◽  
Vol 95 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 261-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney A. Herbert ◽  
Andrew Gall ◽  
Takashi Maoka ◽  
Richard J. Cogdell ◽  
Bruno Robert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Purple Sulfur Bacteria ◽  
The South ◽  
Heat Engines ◽  
Sulfur Bacteria

A preliminary study of insulin participation in the growth regulation of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)

1977 ◽  
Vol 55 (10) ◽  
pp. 1756-1758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan Ludwig ◽  
David A. Higgs ◽  
Ulf H. M. Fagerlund ◽  
Jack R. McBride
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Growth Regulation ◽  
Specific Growth ◽  
Coho Salmon ◽  
Pacific Salmon ◽  
Oncorhynchus Kisutch ◽  
Growth Promoter ◽  
Pancreatic B Cells ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Specific Growth Rates

As part of an ongoing survey to identify hormones capable of stimulating growth in Pacific salmon, groups of underyearling coho salmon were injected with bovine (Ultralente) insulin (0.32, 1.0, 3.2, or 10 IU/kg body weight) into the peritoneal cavity either once or twice weekly for 70 days.All doses of insulin, when injected twice weekly, increased the values for specific growth rates and decreased those for food–gain ratios relative to solvent-injected controls, but the differences were not statistically significant. All doses of insulin caused a marked increase in the granulation of the pancreatic B cells. Plasma glucose concentrations in starved coho injected with 10 IU insulin/kg body weight were significantly lower than in solvent-injected controls 4 h after injection.It is concluded that proper evaluation of the effectiveness of insulin as a growth promoter for salmon requires further studies preferably using insulin preparations specific to teleosts.

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