Mukamolova Galina V, Kaprelyants Arseny S, Kell Douglas B, Young Michael
Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3DD, UK.
Adv Microb Physiol. 2003;47:65-129. doi: 10.1016/s0065-2911(03)47002-1.
Microbial culturability can be ephemeral. Cells are not merely either dead or alive but can adopt physiological states in which they appear to be (transiently) non-culturable under conditions in which they are known normally to be able to grow and divide. The reacquisition of culturability from such states is referred to as resuscitation. We here develop the idea that this "transient non-culturability" is a consequence of a special survival strategy, and summarise the morphological, physiological and genetic evidence underpinning such behaviour and its adaptive significance.
微生物的可培养性可能是短暂的。细胞并非仅仅是死的或活的，而是可以进入一种生理状态，在这种状态下，它们在通常已知能够生长和分裂的条件下似乎（暂时）不可培养。从这种状态重新获得可培养性被称为复苏。我们在此提出这样一种观点，即这种“短暂的不可培养性”是一种特殊生存策略的结果，并总结了支持这种行为及其适应性意义的形态学、生理学和遗传学证据。
