Respiratory cycles

The Use of Metabolites in the Restoration of the Viability of Heat and Chemically Inactivated Escherichia Coli

“…There is only a limited amount of data available in the literature on this subject. Umbreit's (1953) analysis suggests that citric acid cycle and possibly some other cycles are operative in E. coli. Nickerson and Sherman (1952) have shown that undividing filamentous bacteria (Bacillus cereus) produced by magnesium deficiency had much lower pyruvate oxidation rate than normally dividing cells.…”