NUTRITION OF CELLULAR SLIME MOLDS I. : Growth on Living and Dead Bacteria
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Hohl, Hans-Rudolf
RESUMO
Hohl, Hans-Rudolf (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Kenneth B. Raper. Nutrition of cullular slime molds. I. Growth on living and dead bacteria. J. Bacteriol. 85:191–198. 1963.—Methods for growing selected species of cellular slime molds in liquid culture on living and dead bacteria are described. Species investigated included Polysphondylium pallidum, P. violaceum, Dictyostelium discoideum, and D. purpureum. Maximal growth of myxamoebae occurred in suspensions of 1010 living bacteria (Escherichia coli B/r)/ml in Sörensen's phosphate buffer (pH 6.0), reaching a density of 107 to 2 × 107 cells/ml in 48 hr. The generation time for the different slime molds ranged from 2.4 hr for P. violaceum to 2.9 hr for D. discoideum (strain V-12). Good growth of P. pallidum occurred between pH 3.6 and 7.8. The slime molds grew less well on dead (autoclaved) than on living bacteria and, except for P. pallidum, the amount and rate of growth decreased markedly as the time of autoclaving was increased from 2.5 to 80 min. Bacteria killed with propylene oxide supported growth equal to those autoclaved for a few minutes. The myxamoebae were very sensitive to the osmotic pressure of the culture medium, especially in the presence of living bacteria, and addition of as little as 0.01 m NaCl caused a measurable decrease in slime mold growth. The culture techniques employed afford useful methods for investigating the nutritional requirements of the cellular slime molds, and the experiments described provide the bases for subsequent studies relating to the axenic cultivation of these singular microorganisms.
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