Effects of Inhibition and Repression on the Utilization of Substrates by Heterogeneous Bacterial Communities
AUTOR(ES)
Stumm-Zollinger, Elisabeth
RESUMO
This investigation attempts to evaluate to what extent enzyme inhibition and repression by metabolites, indigenous to the cell, are significant phenomena in natural microbial communities. Three case histories of the kinetics of substrate utilization and growth in multisubstrate media by heterogeneous bacterial populations are presented: (i) concurrent substrate utilization and growth on both substrates simultaneously (glucose plus benzoate); (ii) sequential substrate elimination accompanied by diauxic growth as a result of inhibition of enzyme activity (glucose plus galactose); (iii) sequential substrate utilization accompanied by diauxic growth caused by repression of enzyme formation (glucose plus l-phenylalanine, benzoate plus l-phenylalanine). It is shown that enzyme inhibition was observed in two-substrate media as well as in multisubstrate media and was maintained at low substrate concentrations (few milligrams per liter). A special attempt has been made to maintain the diversity of the experimental microbial population during the adaptation and enrichment period. All substrates were determined with sensitive analytical methods specific for the individual substrates. The results obtained confirm that catabolite repression and the resulting sequential substrate utilization are observed in heterogeneous bacterial populations.
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