Cryptic growth in Klebsiella pneumoniae |
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Authors: | C Anthony Mason Geoffrey Hamer |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Aquatic Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Ueberlandstrasse 133, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | Summary The ability of Klebsiella pneumoniae to grow on its own soluble lysis products is shown in a series of batch growth experiments. Maximum specific growth rate coefficients ranging from 0.69 to 1.46 h-1 were obtained with experimental cryptic yield coefficients ranging between 0.42 to 0.52 (mg-cell-C/mg-substrate-C). These kinetic data are used to calibrate a model which demonstrates that depression of theoretical maximum yield coefficients relative to experimentally obtained values can be explained by cryptic growth phenomena without the need to resort to the use of physiologically undefined, mathematical constants. Growth of K. pneumoniae on sonicated cells derived from steady-state chemostat cultures was followed in batch culture and observed to occur with no lag phase. Batch growth curves did not indicate either diauxic or polyauxic growth, suggesting simultaneous utilization of the complex organic substrate mixture. These data suggest that cryptic growth is probably a real event occurring in growing chemostat cultures under ideal growth conditions and most probably also under starvation conditions. |
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