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MICROBIAL GROWTH

MICROBIAL GROWTH. Chapter 6. QUESTION OF THE DAY…. Oxygen in the atmosphere is essential for human life. Can some bacteria grow in the absence of oxygen - how?. Microbial Growth. Increase in number of cells, not cell size Populations Colonies. The Requirements for Growth.

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MICROBIAL GROWTH

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  1. MICROBIAL GROWTH Chapter 6

  2. QUESTION OF THE DAY… • Oxygen in the atmosphere is essential for human life. Can some bacteria grow in the absence of oxygen - how?

  3. Microbial Growth • Increase in number of cells, not cell size • Populations • Colonies

  4. The Requirements for Growth • Physical requirements • Temperature • pH • Osmotic pressure • Chemical requirements • Carbon • Nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorous • Trace elements • Oxygen • Organic growth factor

  5. Physical Requirements • Temperature • Minimum growth temperature • Optimum growth temperature • Maximum growth temperature

  6. Food Preservation Temperatures • Psychrotrophs: • Grow between 0°C and 20–30°C • Cause food spoilage Figure 6.2

  7. pH • Most bacteria grow between pH 6.5 and 7.5 • Molds and yeasts grow between pH 5 and 6 • Acidophiles grow in acidic environments

  8. Osmotic Pressure • Hypertonic environments, or an increase in salt or sugar, cause plasmolysis • Extreme or obligate halophiles require high osmotic pressure • Facultative halophiles tolerate high osmotic pressure

  9. Plasmolysis Figure 6.4

  10. Chemical Requirements • Carbon • Structural organic molecules, energy source • Chemoheterotrophs use organic carbon sources • Autotrophs use CO2

  11. Chemical Requirements • Nitrogen • In amino acids and proteins • Most bacteria decompose proteins • Some bacteria use NH4+ or NO3– • A few bacteria use N2 in nitrogen fixation

  12. Chemical Requirements • Sulfur • In amino acids, thiamine, and biotin • Most bacteria decompose proteins • Some bacteria use SO42– or H2S • Phosphorus • In DNA, RNA, ATP, and membranes • PO43– is a source of phosphorus QUESTION: If bacterial cells were given a sulfur source containing radioactive sulfur (35S) in their culture media, in what molecules would the 35S be found in the cells?

  13. Chemical Requirements • Trace elements • Inorganic elements required in small amounts • Usually as enzyme cofactors

  14. The Effect of Oxygen (O2) on Growth QUESTION: How would one determine whether a microbe is a strict anaerobe? Table 6.1

  15. Toxic Oxygen • Singlet oxygen: O2 boosted to a higher-energy state • Superoxide free radicals: O2– • Peroxide anion: O22– • Hydroxyl radical (OH•)

  16. QUESTION OF THE DAY…. • Oxygen in the atmosphere is essential for human life. How can some bacteria grow in the absence of oxygen?

  17. Organic Growth Factors • Organic compounds obtained from the environment • Vitamins, amino acids, purines, and pyrimidines

  18. Biofilms • Microbial communities • Form slime or hydrogels • Bacteria attracted by chemicals via quorum sensing • Share nutrients • Sheltered from harmful factors Figure 6.5

  19. Biofilm Application Question • Patients with indwelling catheters received contaminated heparin • Bacterial numbers in contaminated heparin were too low to cause infection • 84–421 days after exposure, patients developed infections • Pseudomonas fluorescens was cultured from the catheters • What happened?

  20. Culture Media • Culture medium: Nutrients prepared for microbial growth • Sterile: No living microbes • Inoculum: Introduction of microbes into medium • Culture: Microbes growing in/on culture medium

  21. Agar • Complex polysaccharide • Used as solidifying agent for culture media in Petri plates, slants, and deeps • Generally not metabolized by microbes • Liquefies at 100°C • Solidifies at ~40°C

  22. Culture Media • Chemically defined media: Exact chemical composition is known • Complex media: Extracts and digests of yeasts, meat, or plants • Nutrient broth • Nutrient agar QUESTION: Could Louis Pasteur, in the 1800s, have grown rabies viruses in cell culture instead of in living animals?

  23. Anaerobic Culture Methods • Reducing media • Contain chemicals (thioglycolate or oxyrase) that combine O2 • Heated to drive off O2 Anaerobic Jar Anaerobic Chamber

  24. Capnophiles • Microbes that require high CO2 conditions • CO2 packet • Candle jar

  25. Biosafety Levels • 1: No special precautions • 2: Lab coat, gloves, eye protection • 3: Biosafety cabinets to prevent airborne transmission • 4: Sealed, negative pressure • Exhaust air is filtered twice QUESTION: Which biosafety level is observed in the photo?

  26. Selective Media • Suppress unwanted microbes and encourage desired microbes Figure 6.10

  27. Differential Media • Make it easy to distinguish colonies of different microbes. Figure 6.9

  28. Enrichment Culture • Encourages growth of desired microbe • Assume a soil sample contains a few phenol-degrading bacteria and thousands of other bacteria • Inoculate phenol-containing culture medium with the soil, and incubate • Transfer 1 ml to another flask of the phenol medium, and incubate • Transfer 1 ml to another flask of the phenol medium, and incubate • Only phenol-metabolizing bacteria will be growing

  29. Obtaining Pure Cultures • A pure culture contains only one species or strain • A colony is a population of cells arising from a single cell or spore or from a group of attached cells • A colony is often called a colony-forming unit (CFU) • The streak plate method is used to isolate pure cultures

  30. The Streak Plate Method QUESTION: Can you think of any reason why a colony does not grow to an infinite size, or at least fill the confines of the Petri plate? Figure 6.11

  31. Preserving Bacterial Cultures • Deep-freezing: –50° to –95°C • Lyophilization (freeze-drying): Frozen (–54° to –72°C) and dehydrated in a vacuum

  32. Reproduction in Prokaryotes • Binary fission • Budding • Conidiospores (actinomycetes) • Fragmentation of filaments

  33. Binary Fission Figure 6.12a

  34. Cell Division Figure 6.13b

  35. Bacterial Growth Curve Figure 6.14

  36. Phases of Growth Figure 6.15

  37. Serial Dilutions Figure 6.16

  38. Plate Counts Figure 6.17

  39. Plate Counts • After incubation, count colonies on plates that have 25–250 colonies (CFUs) Figure 6.16

  40. Counting Bacteria by Membrane Filtration Figure 6.18

  41. Most Probable Number • Multiple tube MPN test • Count positive tubes • Compare with statistical tables Figure 6.19

  42. Direct Microscopic Count Figure 6.20

  43. Turbidity QUESTION: How did bacterial growth affect absorbance - why? Figure 6.21

  44. Indirect Methods Turbidity Metabolic activity Dry weight Measuring Microbial Growth Direct Methods • Plate counts • Filtration • MPN • Direct microscopic count

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