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Flow Microcalorimetric Studies of Yeast Growth: Fundamental Aspects
Author(s) -
PERRY B. F.,
BEEZER A. E.,
MILES R. J.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of applied bacteriology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.889
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1365-2672
pISSN - 0021-8847
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1979.tb01214.x
Subject(s) - isothermal microcalorimetry , yeast , organism , identification (biology) , biochemical engineering , biology , biological system , chemistry , environmental chemistry , biochemistry , thermodynamics , ecology , physics , paleontology , enthalpy , engineering
The importance of factors such as cultural conditions e.g. organism background, inoculum density and glucose concentration are explored and their effects on the experimental recording discussed. The relevance of these findings to microbial microcalorimetry in general and to microcalorimetric identification of organisms in particular is described. The conclusions drawn are (i) that microbial identification by microcalorimetry is not possible and (ii) that great caution must be exercised in interpreting metabolic data derived from microcalorimetric studies.