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- Title
The dependence of intracellular ATP level on the nutrition mode of the acidophilic bacteria Sulfobacillus thermotolerans and Alicyclobacillus tolerans.
- Authors
Tsaplina, I. A.; Zhuravleva, A. E.; Ismailov, A. D.; Zakharchuk, L. M.; Krasil'nikova, E. N.; Bogdanova, T. I.; Karavaiko, G. I.
- Abstract
The dynamics of the ATP pool in the aerobic spore-forming acidothermophilic mixotrophic bacteria Sulfobacillus thermotolerans Kr1T and Alicyclobacillus tolerans K1T were studied in the course of their chemolithoheterotrophic, chemoorganoheterotrophic, and chemolithoautotrophic growth. It was established that, during mixotrophic growth, the maximum ATP concentrations in the cells of S. thermotolerans Kr1 and A. tolerans K1 were 3.8 and 0.6 nmol/mg protein, respectively. The ATP concentrations in sulfobacilli and alicyclobacilli during organotrophic growth were 2.2 and 3.1 nmol/mg protein, respectively. In the cells of the obligately heterotrophic bacterium Alicyclobacillus cycloheptanicus 4006T, the maximum ATP concentration was several times higher and reached 12.3 nmol/mg protein. During lithotrophic growth, the maximum values of the ATP concentration in the cells of S. thermotolerans Kr1 and A. tolerans K1 were 0.3 and <0.1 nmol/mg protein, respectively; in the cells of the autotrophic bacterium Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans TFBk, the ATP content was about 60–300 times higher (17.0 nmol/mg protein). It is concluded that low ATP content is among the possible causes of growth cessation of S. thermotolerans Kr1 and A. tolerans K1 under auto-and heterotrophic conditions after several culture transfers.
- Subjects
ADENOSINE triphosphate; PROKARYOTES; FUNGUS-bacterium relationships; NUTRITION; PROTEIN kinases; FATTY acids; ENZYMES; MICROORGANISMS; MICROBIOLOGY
- Publication
Microbiology (00262617), 2007, Vol 76, Issue 6, p654
- ISSN
0026-2617
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S0026261707060021