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Starvation in Bacteria

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Staffan Kjelleberg

    1. University of Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden
      University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Bioavailability of Energy and the Starvation State

    • Richard Y. Morita
    Pages 1-23

  3. Bacterial Growth and Starvation in Aquatic Environments

    • D. J. W. Moriarty, R. T. Bell
    Pages 25-53

  4. Bacterial Responses to Soil Stimuli

    • J. D. van Elsas, L. S. van Overbeek
    Pages 55-79

  5. Dynamics of Microbial Growth in the Decelerating and Stationary Phase of Batch Culture

    • C. Anthony Mason, Thomas Egli
    Pages 81-102

  6. Starvation and Recovery of Vibrio

    • Jörgen Östling, Louise Holmquist, Klas Flärdh, Björn Svenblad, Åsa Jouper-Jaan, Staffan Kjelleberg
    Pages 103-127

  7. Global Systems Approach to the Physiology of the Starved Cell

    • Thomas Nyström
    Pages 129-150

  8. Approaches to the Study of Survival and Death in Stationary-Phase Escherichia coli

    • Deborah A. Siegele, Marta Almirón, Roberto Kolter
    Pages 151-169

  9. The Role of rpoS in Early Stationary-Phase Gene Regulation in Escherichia coli K12

    • Regine Hengge-Aronis
    Pages 171-200

  10. Starvation-Stress Response (SSR) of Salmonella typhimurium

    • Michael P. Spector, John W. Foster
    Pages 201-224

  11. The Impact of Nutritional State on the Microevolution of Ribosomes

    • C. G. Kurland, Riitta Mikkola
    Pages 225-237

  12. Formation of Viable but Nonculturable Cells

    • James D. Oliver
    Pages 239-272

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 273-277
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden

    Staffan Kjelleberg

  • University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Staffan Kjelleberg

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