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Published on: July 28, 2015
Degradation of cell constituents during starvation of Salmonella enteritidis
Abstract:
Salmonella enteritidis starved in Fernbach flasks used acid-alcohol-soluble material and RNA as endogenous reserves during starvation. Organisms starved in a fermentor system consumed acid-alcohol-soluble material, RNA and protein to maintain viability. Half-life survival times were 132 h and 118 h for the Fernbach and fermentor-starved cells, respectively. The acid-alcohol-soluble fraction of the cell consisted mainly of peptides or protein. This fraction accounted for most of the loss of label from 14C-labelled cells during the first 5 days of starvation and presumably contains the primary endogenous reserve. Although the residue fraction of fermentor-starved cells provided 35% of the total loss of 14C from the cells by the 5th day, a small net increase in 14C activity of the residue fraction of Fernbach-starved cells was observed. Differences observed appeared to be due to the method of starvation.
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