Role of the lipid peroxidation system of Escherichia coli cells in maintaining their viability in air

Bogoslovskaia, O.A.; Burlakova, E.B.; Glushchenko, N.N.; Koniukhov, V.F.; Skrypin, V.I.

Zhurnal Mikrobiologii Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii 6: 22-25

1987


ISSN/ISBN: 0372-9311
PMID: 3307236
Document Number: 287944
The study of 6 E. coli strains differing in their capacity for survival in the air has revealed that the physicochemical characteristics of lipids in microbial cells, such as antioxidizing activity, the concentration of peroxidation products, the content of lipids and their capacity for oxidation, are interrelated, which confirms the existence of the system regulating the peroxidation of lipids in prokaryotic cells, similar to the system regulating lipid peroxidation in eukaryotic cells. The capacity of cells for survival in the air has been shown to depend on the physicochemical state of lipids in cellular membranes.

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