Bacterial growth laws and their applications

Bacterial growth laws and their applications.

Quantitative empirical relationships between cell composition and growth rate played an important role in the early days of microbiology. Gradually, the focus of the field began to shift from growth physiology to the ever more elaborate molecular mechanisms of regulation employed by the organisms. Advances in systems biology and biotechnology have renewed interest in the physiology of the cell ...

17. Bacterial Siderophores and their Biotechnological applications

Siderophore is the Greek phrase for “iron bearer” and is applied to molecules that can bind metals at very high affinities. Marine bacteria as do their terrestrial counterparts, secrete siderophores, which are small peptide molecules, readily assembled by short dedicated metabolic pathways which contain side chains and functional groups that can provide a high affinity set of ligands for coordi...

Magentotactic bacteria and their applications

Magentotactic bacteria are the types of bacteria capable of orientation in an external magnetic field because of the ability to produce structures called magnetosomes. Magnetosomes, nanometer-scale structures, are present in most of the magnetotactice bacteria. They are intracellular organelles composed of magnetic iron mineral crystals individually surrounded by a phospholipid layer. Because o...

Sequential Methods and Their Applications

Transient Laws of Non-Stationary Queueing Systems and Their Applications

We derive a set of transient distributional laws that relate the number of customers in the system (queue) at time t, denoted by L(t) (Q(t)) and the system (waiting) time, S(t) (W(t)) of a customer that arrived to the system (queue) at time t for non-stationary queueing systems that do not allow overtaking. These transient distributional laws provide a complete set of equations that describe th...