Competitive Inhibition of Propionibacterium acidipropionici by Mixed Culturing with Lactobacillus helveticus

1994 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. PEREZ CHAIA ◽  
A. M. STRASSER DE SAAD ◽  
A. PESCE DE RUIZ HOLGADO ◽  
G. OLIVER
Keyword(s):  
Specific Growth ◽  
Competitive Inhibition ◽  
Product Formation ◽  
Lactobacillus Helveticus ◽  
Substrate Consumption ◽  
Propionibacterium Acidipropionici ◽  
Propionic Acid Bacteria ◽  
Lactate Utilization ◽  
Consumption Coefficient ◽  
Specific Growth Rates

Lactobacillus helveticus and Propionibacterium acidipropionici were grown in pure and mixed cultures in a complex medium to assess the associative interaction. The specific growth rates, substrate consumption coefficient, substrate utilization and product formation rates were determined in each case. Propionibacterium acidipropionici utilized glucose preferably when it grew in a medium containing a mixture of glucose and lactate. Its growth rate was higher on glucose than on lactate in pure culture. However, lactic acid was the substrate utilized by propionibacteria in the associative growth. The fast pH reduction produced by the growth of lactobacilli and the slow lactate utilization by propionibacteria in mixed culture determined the inhibition of propionic acid bacteria in associative growth.

scholarly journals Quantitative Physiology of Saccharomyces cerevisiae at Near-Zero Specific Growth Rates

2009 ◽  
Vol 75 (17) ◽  
pp. 5607-5614 ◽  
Author(s):  
L�onie G. M. Boender ◽  
Erik A. F. de Hulster ◽  
Antonius J. A. van Maris ◽  
Pascale A. S. Daran-Lapujade ◽  
Jack T. Pronk
Keyword(s):  
Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Specific Growth ◽  
Biomass Concentration ◽  
Product Formation ◽  
Energy Requirements ◽  
Maintenance Energy ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Complete Cell ◽  
Specific Growth Rates

ABSTRACT Growth at near-zero specific growth rates is a largely unexplored area of yeast physiology. To investigate the physiology of Saccharomyces cerevisiae under these conditions, the effluent removal pipe of anaerobic, glucose-limited chemostat culture (dilution rate, 0.025 h−1) was fitted with a 0.22-μm-pore-size polypropylene filter unit. This setup enabled prolonged cultivation with complete cell retention. After 22 days of cultivation, specific growth rates had decreased below 0.001 h−1 (doubling time of >700 h). Over this period, viability of the retentostat cultures decreased to ca. 80%. The viable biomass concentration in the retentostats could be accurately predicted by a maintenance coefficient of 0.50 mmol of glucose g−1 of biomass h−1 calculated from anaerobic, glucose-limited chemostat cultures grown at dilution rates of 0.025 to 0.20 h−1. This indicated that, in contrast to the situation in several prokaryotes, maintenance energy requirements in S. cerevisiae do not substantially change at near-zero specific growth rates. After 22 days of retentostat cultivation, glucose metabolism was predominantly geared toward alcoholic fermentation to meet maintenance energy requirements. The strict correlation between glycerol production and biomass formation observed at higher specific growth rates was not maintained at the near-zero growth rates reached in the retentostat cultures. In addition to glycerol, the organic acids acetate, d-lactate, and succinate were produced at low rates during prolonged retentostat cultivation. This study identifies robustness and by-product formation as key issues in attempts to uncouple growth and product formation in S. cerevisiae.

scholarly journals Submerged Conidiation and Product Formation by Aspergillus niger at Low Specific Growth Rates Are Affected in Aerial Developmental Mutants

2011 ◽  
Vol 77 (15) ◽  
pp. 5270-5277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Jørgensen ◽  
Kristian F. Nielsen ◽  
Mark Arentshorst ◽  
JooHae Park ◽  
Cees A. van den Hondel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aspergillus Niger ◽  
Nutrient Limitation ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Specific Growth ◽  
Product Formation ◽  
Submerged Cultivation ◽  
Developmental Mutants ◽  
Aerial Hyphae ◽  
Submerged Conidiation ◽  
Specific Growth Rates

ABSTRACTExposure to an aerial environment or severe nutrient limitation induces asexual differentiation in filamentous fungi. Submerged cultivation ofAspergillus nigerin carbon- and energy-limited retentostat cultures both induces and fuels conidiation. Physiological and transcriptomic analyses have revealed that this differentiation strongly affects product formation. Since conidiation is inherent in the aerial environment, we hypothesized that product formation near zero growth can be influenced by affecting differentiation or development of aerial hyphae in general. To investigate this idea, three developmental mutants (ΔfwnA,scl-1, andscl-2mutants) that have no apparent vegetative growth defects were cultured in maltose-limited retentostat cultures. The secondary-metabolite profile of the wild-type strain defined flavasperone, aurasperone B, tensidol B, and two so far uncharacterized compounds as associated with conidium formation, while fumonisins B2, B4, and B6were characteristic of early response to nutrient limitation by the vegetative mycelium. The developmental mutants responded differently to the severe substrate limitation, which resulted in distinct profiles of growth and product formation.fwnAencodes the polyketide synthase responsible for melanin biosynthesis during aerial differentiation, and we show that conidial melanin synthesis in submerged retentostat cultures and aurasperone B production arefwnAdependent. Thescl-1andscl-2strains are two UV mutants generated in the ΔfwnAbackground that displayed reduced asexual conidiation and formed sclerotium-like structures on agar plates. The reduced conidiation phenotypes of thescl-1andscl-2strains are reflected in the retentostat cultivation and are accompanied by elimination or severely reduced accumulation of secondary metabolites and distinctly enhanced accumulation of extracellular protein. This investigation shows that submerged conidiation and product formation of a mitosporic fungus cultured at low specific growth rates can be fundamentally affected by interfering with the genetic program for differentiation of aerial hyphae, opening new perspectives for tailoring industrial performance.

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

Improved Dynamic System of Microbial Continuous Fermentation and its Parameter Identification

2014 ◽  
Vol 633-634 ◽  
pp. 545-549
Author(s):  
Hong Li Xiao ◽  
Lan Zhang Chong ◽  
Fei Li Hang ◽  
Wang Yong
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic System ◽  
Consumption Rate ◽  
Continuous Fermentation ◽  
Formation Rate ◽  
Product Formation ◽  
Cellular Growth ◽  
Specific Substrate ◽  
Substrate Consumption ◽  
Specific Product ◽  
Product Formation Rate

In this paper, the nonlinear dynamic system of microbe continuous fermentation products 1,3-propanediol (1,3-PD) is rewritten by improving the specific cellular growth rate, specific substrate consumption rate and specific product formation rate. Firstly, under the condition of substrate glycol excess and active trans-membrane transport, according to the dynamic behavior the fermentation process, we consider the glycerol and 1,3–PD concentration within the cell, and improve the specific cellular growth rate, specific substrate consumption rate and specific product formation rate, then rewrite the dynamic system of microbial continuous fermentation process. Secondly, taking the dynamic system as main constraint condition, we establish the parameter identification model and prove the existence of the optimal solution. Lastly, the numerical results calculated by particle swarm algorithm show that the improved model is suitable for describe the dynamic behavior of 1,3-PD, but is not accurate enough for by-products.

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).

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