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[About the characters of thermoprotection in influence of osmolites on bacteria]
Abstract:
The influence of the length of staying of Escherichia coli B/r cells in hypertonic NaCl solution before heating at 52 and 60 degrees C on the magnitude of salt thermoprotection was investigated. In addition, the dependence of the isotonic and thermoprotective NaCl concentrations on the exposure temperature was investigated. It was shown that the volume of cell osmotic thermoprotection was independent on the length of preliminary staying of microorganisms in hypertonic NaCl solution. It was also shown that the magnitude of isotonic and thermoprotective osmolite concentrations increased with the increase in the exposure temperature. The analysis of the data obtained and published in literature indicates that the compensating mechanism is involved in salt bacteria thermoprotection rather than the dehydratation one.
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