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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-10-31
pubmed:abstractText
The influence of incubation time on the electrokinetic properties of Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas putida, Alcaligenes faecalis, and Alcaligenes sp., was examined by electrophoretic mobility measurements and the results were discussed based on Ohshima's soft particle theory. The electrophoretic mobility of E. coli plotted against incubation time revealed that the mobility gradually increased from the outset of incubation to 7 h, which corresponded to the exponential growth and early stationary phase, and then decreased. For all strains, electrophoretic mobility leveled off to nonzero values in accordance with the increase in ionic concentration, which was a characteristic feature of soft particles. Soft particle analysis was carried out at the outset of incubation and the time when mobility reached a maximum in order to obtain the spatial charge density (ZN) and cell surface softness (1/lambda). ZN at the maximum electrophoretic mobility was more negative than that at the outset of incubation for E. coli, P. putida, and A. faecalis, while the ZN of Alcaligenes sp. almost remained unchanged. 1/lambda decreased for E. coli, but increased for Alcaligenes sp. and A. faecalis. These findings indicated that the cell growth phase affects both ZN and 1/lambda, although the dependencies of these parameters are unique to each bacterial strain.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0021-9797
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
264
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
565-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Influence of growth phase on bacterial cell electrokinetic characteristics examined by soft particle electrophoresis theory.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemical Engineering, Waseda University, Ohkubo 3-4-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article