Affiliation:
1. School of Microbiology, University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales 2033, Australia
Abstract
The activity of the hydrophilic
Vibrio
sp. strain DW1 and the hydrophobic
Pseudomonas
sp. strain S9, which both undergo starvation-induced responses, was examined at nutrient-enriched and nutrient-deficient interfaces. The initial period of response to a starvation regime (“dwarfing” phase) is a sequence of two processes: fragmentation and continuous size reduction of the fragmented cells. This dwarfing phase is also one of intense metabolic activity as supported by O
2
uptake measurements of the endogenous metabolism and the use of inhibitors of the proton flow, the electron transport chain, and membrane-bound ATPase. Hydrophilic bacteria become even smaller at nutrient-deficient surfaces than in the liquid phase upon starvation, and this is reflected in a higher endogenous metabolism exhibited by surface-associated cells compared with those in the liquid phase. On the other hand, hydrophobic bacteria dwarfing at surfaces did not exhibit a greater size reduction and exhibited an endogenous metabolism that was only slightly higher than that of cells in the liquid phase. Bacterial scavenging of surface-localized nutrients is related to the degree of irreversible binding of dwarf and starved bacteria, which in turn may be related to the degree of cell surface hydrophobicity.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology
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