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6106247

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1040
pubmed:dateCreated
1980-11-25
pubmed:abstractText
An understanding of the mechanisms by which bacteria derive their energy is clearly important for the prediction of growth yields. Bacteria can synthesize ATP by a variety of routes, by fermentation, by oxidative phosphorylation, and possibly by the excretion of metabolic end products. The bacterium Escherichia coli has been studied extensively and a great deal is now known about the different membrane-bound multi-enzyme complexes that are responsible for oxidative phosphorylation. The efficiency of oxidative phosphorylation can vary not only between different bacteria that have adapted to particular ecological niches but also in an individual bacterium grown under different conditions or modified genetically by mutation with respect to its parent. Clearly, the concept that bacteria always grow with maximum thermodynamic efficiency is erroneous and it is important, therefore, to be able to assess the efficiency of energy conversion as well as the biochemical and genetical factors that regulate the physiological expression of energy-yielding reactions if they are to be manipulated by the investigator.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0962-8436
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
11
pubmed:volume
290
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
329-39
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1980
pubmed:articleTitle
Microbial energetics.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't