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. 1988 Aug;54(8):2054–2057. doi: 10.1128/aem.54.8.2054-2057.1988

Kinetics of Mixed Microbial Assemblages Enhance Removal of Highly Dilute Organic Substrates

David L Lewis 1,*, Robert E Hodson 1, Huey-Min Hwang 1
PMCID: PMC202801  PMID: 16347715

Abstract

Our experiments with selected organic substrates reveal that the rate-limiting process governing microbial degradation rates changes with substrate concentration, S, in such a manner that substrate removal is enhanced at lower values of S. This enhancement is the result of the dominance of very efficient systems for substrate removal at low substrate concentrations. The variability of dominant kinetic parameters over a range of S causes the kinetics of complex assemblages to be profoundly dissimilar to those of systems possessing a single set of kinetic parameters; these findings necessitate taking a new approach to predicting substrate removal rates over wide ranges of S.

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