Effect of amino acids on the heat production and growth efficiency of Streptococcus bovis: balance of anabolic and catabolic rates.
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Russell, J B
RESUMO
Streptococcus bovis JB1 grew nearly twice as fast (0.9 versus 1.6 h-1) and had a 40% greater growth yield (18 versus 12.5 mg of protein per mmol of glucose) when an ammonia-based medium was supplemented with amino acids, but the glucose consumption rate (88 mumol mg of protein-1 h-1) and specific rate of heat production (2.1 mW/mg of protein) were unaffected. Amino acid availability had little effect on the catabolic rate, but the specific heat decreased 40% (8.8 to 5.2 J/mg of protein). These growth rate-dependent changes in metabolic efficiency were fivefold greater than the maintenance energy. Chloramphenicol (100 mg/l), an inhibitor of protein synthesis, caused a gradual decrease in anabolic (growth) rate, but there was little change in the rate of glucose consumption and the specific heat increased. When growth was inhibited by iodoacetate, the catabolic and anabolic rates both declined and there was not increase in specific heat. On the basis of these results, the benefit of amino acid supplementation was largely explained by the balance of anabolic and catabolic rates. When amino acids were available, the anabolic and catabolic rates were more closely matched and less energy was spilled as heat.
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