Starvation in Bacteria

ISBN-13: 9780306444302 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 277 str.

Staffan Kjelleberg; S. Kjelleberg

Opis

Concerted efforts to study starvation and survival of nondifferentiating vegeta tive heterotrophic bacteria have been made with various degrees of intensity, in different bacteria and contexts, over more than the last 30 years. As with bacterial growth in natural ecosystem conditions, these research efforts have been intermittent, with rather long periods of limited or no production in between. While several important and well-received reviews and proceedings on the topic of this monograph have been published during the last three to four decades, the last few years have seen a marked increase in reviews on starvation survival in non-spore-forming bacteria. This increase reflects a realization that the biology of bacteria in natural conditions is generally not that of logarithmic growth and that we have very limited information on the physiology of the energy-and nutrient-limited phases of the life cyde of the bacterial cello The growing interest in nongrowing bacteria also sterns from the more recent advances on the molecular basis of the starvation-induced nongrowing bacterial cello The identification of starvation-specific gene and protein re sponders in Escherichia coli as weIl as other bacterial species has provided molecular handles for our attempts to decipher the "differentiation-like" responses and programs that nondifferentiating bacteria exhibit on nutrient limited growth arrest. Severallaboratories have contributed greatly to the progress made in life after-log research.

Spis treści

Bioavailability of Energy and the Starvation State (R.Y. Morita). Bacterial Growth and Starvation in Aquatic Environments (D.J.W. Moriarty, R.T. Bell). Bacterial Responses to Soil Stimuli (J.D. Van Elsas, L.S. van Overbeek). Dynamics of Microbial Growth in the Decelerating and Stationary Phases of Batch Culture (C.A. Mason, T. Egli). Starvation and Recovery of Vibrio (J. Ostling et al.). Global Systems Approach to the Physiology of the Starved Cell (T. Nyström). Approaches to the Study of Survival and Death in Stationary Phase Escherichia coli (D.A. Siegele et al.). The Role of rpoS in Early Stationary Phase Gene Regulation in Escherichia coli K12 (R. HenggeAronis). Gene Expression and Survival during Nutrient Starvation in Salmonella typhimurium (M.P. Spector, J.W. Foster). The Impact of Nutrial State on the Microevolution of Ribosomes (C.G. Kurland, R. Mikkola). Formation of Viable but Nonculturable Cells (J.D. Oliver). Index.