RT Book, Section
A1 Carroll, Karen C.
A1 Hobden, Jeffery A.
A1 Miller, Steve
A1 Morse, Stephen A.
A1 Mietzner, Timothy A.
A1 Detrick, Barbara
A1 Mitchell, Thomas G.
A1 McKerrow, James H.
A1 Sakanari, Judy A.
SR Print(0)
ID 1114732735
T1 Microbial Metabolism
T2 Jawetz, Melnick, & Adelberg’s Medical Microbiology, 27e
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071824989
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1114732735
RD 2024/04/19
AB Microbial  growth  requires  the  polymerization  of  biochemical  building  blocks  into  proteins,  nucleic  acids,  polysaccharides,  and  lipids.  The  building  blocks  must  come  preformed  in  the  growth  medium  or  must  be  synthesized  by  the  growing  cells.  Additional  biosynthetic  demands  are  placed  by  the  requirement  for  coenzymes  that  participate  in  enzymatic  catalysis.  Biosynthetic  polymerization  reactions  demand  the  transfer  of  anhydride  bonds  from  adenosine  triphosphate  (ATP).  Growth  demands  a  source  of  metabolic  energy  for  the  synthesis  of  anhydride  bonds  and  for  the  maintenance  of  transmembrane  gradients  of  ions  and  metabolites.