Starvation in Bacteria

Concerted efforts to study starvation and survival of nondifferentiating vegeta­ tive heterotrophic bacteria have been made with various degrees of intensity, in different bacteria and contexts, over more than the last 30 years. As with bacterial growth in natural ecosystem conditions, these research efforts have been intermittent, with rather long periods of limited or no production in between. While several important and well-received reviews and proceedings on the topic of this monograph have been published during the last three to four decades, the last few years have seen a marked increase in reviews on starvation survival in non-spore-forming bacteria. This increase reflects a realization that the biology of bacteria in natural conditions is generally not that of logarithmic growth and that we have very limited information on the physiology of the energy-and nutrient-limited phases of the life cyde of the bacterial cello The growing interest in nongrowing bacteria also sterns from the more recent advances on the molecular basis of the starvation-induced nongrowing bacterial cello The identification of starvation-specific gene and protein re­ sponders in Escherichia coli as weIl as other bacterial species has provided molecular handles for our attempts to decipher the "differentiation-like" responses and programs that nondifferentiating bacteria exhibit on nutrient­ limited growth arrest. Severallaboratories have contributed greatly to the progress made in life­ after-log research.

this Monograph Provides A Current, Comprehensive Review Of The Starvation And Stationary Phase Biology Of Non-differentiating Bacteria. Genetics And Adaptation Techniques Of Several Species Are Explored In Detail, As Well As Prevailing Ecosystem Conditions That Lead To Intermittent Growth Or Long-term Starvation. Researchers Seeking An Understanding Of The Far-reaching Implications Of Bacterial Starvation In Bacterial Physiology And Ecology, Applied Bacteriology, And Environmental Biotechnology Will Find No Substitute For This Work.

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reviews Recent Research On How Traditionally Nondifferentiating Bacteria Adapt To Starvation Conditions, The Different Genetic Programs And Physiological Features Of The Adaptations In Different Species, And The Prevailing Ecosystem Conditions That Lead To Intermittent Growth Or Long-term Starvation. So Far There Is No Talk Of Sending In Un Troops. Annotation C. Book News, Inc., Portland, Or (booknews.com)

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Bioavailability of Energy and the Starvation State....Pages 1-23 Bacterial Growth and Starvation in Aquatic Environments....Pages 25-53 Bacterial Responses to Soil Stimuli....Pages 55-79 Dynamics of Microbial Growth in the Decelerating and Stationary Phase of Batch Culture....Pages 81-102 Starvation and Recovery of Vibrio....Pages 103-127 Global Systems Approach to the Physiology of the Starved Cell....Pages 129-150 Approaches to the Study of Survival and Death in Stationary-Phase Escherichia coli....Pages 151-169 The Role of rpoS in Early Stationary-Phase Gene Regulation in Escherichia coli K12....Pages 171-200 Starvation-Stress Response (SSR) of Salmonella typhimurium....Pages 201-224 The Impact of Nutritional State on the Microevolution of Ribosomes....Pages 225-237 Formation of Viable but Nonculturable Cells....Pages 239-272 Back Matter....Pages 273-277 Provides a comprehensive review of the starvation and stationary phase biology of non-differentiating bacteria. This work explores: genetics and adaptation techniques of several species and the ecosystem conditions that lead to intermittent growth or long-term starvation.