Catabolite repression of 3-galactosidase formation in Escherichia coli ML30 is readily observed when cultures are grown aerobically in media containing glucose or gluconate as carbon and energy sources. If cultures growing exponentially under these conditions are transferred to an anaerobic environment, catabolite repression is temporarily abolished (M. Cohn and K. Horibata, J. Bacteriol. 78:62...

The objective of the present study was to determine the shelf life of ready-to-eat cooked chicken breast fillets (shredded) stored in atmospheres that were modified with different concentrations of CO2 and to establish a relationship between the concentration of this gas and bacterial growth. The samples were divided into 7 groups with different packaging conditions: aerobiosis, vacuum, and 10,...

Yield of streptolysin S (SLS) in streptococcal culture was considerably reduced by procaine, dibucaine, atropine or chlorpromazine at concentrations which scarcely affected production of an extracellular nuclease as well as the bacterial growth. Cerulenin was also inhibitory to SLS formation, but its effect was more pronounced on the nuclease production. By aerobiosis, amount of SLS produced in...

Soluble and membrane-bound inorganic pyrophosphatases (sPPase and H(+)-PPase, respectively) of the purple nonsulfur bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum are differentially regulated by environmental growth conditions. Both proteins and their transcripts were found in cells of anaerobic phototrophic batch cultures along all growth phases, although they displayed different time patterns. However, in a...

The power of molecular oxygen to drive many crucial biogeochemical processes, from cellular respiration to rock weathering, makes reconstructing the history of its production and accumulation a first-order question for understanding Earth's evolution. Among the various geochemical proxies for the presence of O(2) in the environment, molecular fossils offer a unique record of O(2) where it was f...

Efficient sterol influx in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is restricted to anaerobiosis or to haem deficiency resulting from mutations. Constitutive expression of SUT1, an hypoxic gene encoding a transcriptional regulator, induces sterol uptake in aerobiosis. A genome-wide approach using DNA microarray was used to identify the mediators of SUT1 effects on aerobic sterol uptake. A total of 1...