Abstract
Work is described on the changes in cell ions during growth of cultures of a species of Halobacterium isolated from the Dead Sea. Cell K concentration fell from 5.5 to 3.8 moles per kg cell water during the logarithmic phase of growth and maintained the latter value during the stationary phase (initial medium concentration, 7 mM). Cell Na and Cl followed a complex series of roughly parallel changes. The logarithmic phase ion concentrations were: Na, 1.0–2.3 moles/kg cell water; Cl, 2.3–3.7 moles/kg cell water. The final stationary phase values were: Na, 0.5 moles/kg cell water; Cl, 2.3–2.9 moles/kg cell water (medium NaCl concentration, 3.9 Molal). It is suggested that most of the K+ is bound within the cytoplasm.
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