Catalase Activity of Psychrophilic Bacteria Grown at 2 and 30 C1

Catalase activity of psychrophilic bacteria grown at 2 and at 30 C.

Catalase activity was measured in resting-cell suspensions of psychrophilic bacteria grown at 2 and at 30 C. Enzyme activity decreased in both cell-suspension types as harvest age increased. At comparable physiological age, cells grown at 2 C had more catalase than cells grown at 30 C.

Growth of psychrophilic bacteria.

On the basis of the temperature range in which growth can occur, bacteria are usually divided into 3 groups, namely: thermophiles, mesophiles, and psychrophiles (sometimes called cryophiles or rhigophiles). Thermophiles have temperature optima (generally quite close to temperature maxima) 10 to 25 degrees above the temperature optima of mesophiles. Thermophiles and mesophiles are easily disting...

Purification and characterization of a catalase from the facultatively psychrophilic bacterium Vibrio rumoiensis S-1(T) exhibiting high catalase activity.

Catalase from the facultatively psychrophilic bacterium Vibrio rumoiensis S-1(T), which was isolated from an environment exposed to H(2)O(2) and exhibited high catalase activity, was purified and characterized, and its localization in the cell was determined. Its molecular mass was 230 kDa, and the molecule consisted of four identical subunits. The enzyme, which was not apparently reduced by di...

Purification and Characterization of a Catalase from the Facultatively Psychrophilic Bacterium Vibrio rumoiensis S-1 Exhibiting High Catalase Activity

Anaerobic growth of psychrophilic bacteria.

Upadhyay, J. (Washington State University, Pullman) and J. L. Stokes. Anaerobic growth of psychrophilic bacteria. J. Bacteriol. 83:270-275. 1962.-Facultatively anaerobic psychrophilic bacteria are widely distributed in nature and can be readily isolated from a variety of foods, soil, sewage, and other habitats. Strictly anaerobic psychrophiles, however, could not be isolated. Temperature and ox...