[The physiology of thermophilic and mesophilic bacilli during development at optimal and submaximal temperatures]

Thermophilic bacilli, contrary to mesophilic, grow equally well under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. This may be due to the presence of more active anaerobic dehydrogenases in thermophilic organisms. The activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and alcohol dehydrogenase, and the content of ATP, increased in the cells of thermophilic Bac. stearothermophilus 159 and mesophilic Bac. megaterium M strains growing at temperatures close to maximal. The activity of glutamate dehydrogenase under these conditions was inhibited.