High growth rate and substrate exhaustion results in rapid cell death and lysis in the thermophilic bacterium Geobacillus thermoleovorans

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 84-95

  Pavlostathis, Spyros G ^a   Marchant, Roger ^b   Banat, Ibrahim M ^b   Ternan, Nigel G ^b   McMullan, Geoffrey ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell death and lysis; Geobacilli; Kinetics; Soil thermophile

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOMASS; CYTOLOGY; GLUCOSE; GROWTH KINETICS; PROTEINS;

CELL DEATH AND LYSIS; CELL GROWTH; GEOBACILLI; SOIL THERMOPHILE;

CELL CULTURE;

ACETIC ACID; AMMONIA; CARBON; GLUCOSE; HEXADECANE; NITROGEN; PYRUVIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION; CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; GEOBACILLUS THERMOLEOVORANS; GROWTH RATE; LIFE CYCLE; LOW TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

APOPTOSIS; BACILLUS; BIOREACTORS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLUCOSE; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEOBACILLUS THERMOLEOVORANS;

EID: 33748433645     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.20962     Document Type: Article

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