[Luminescence and growth of Photobacterium mandapamensis in periodic culture].

The luminescent Photobacterium mandapamensis, strain 54 (the collection of the Institute of Physics, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences), was isolated from the water of the Pacific Ocean in the equatorial zone and studied in the course of periodic cultivation. The dynamics of changes in the main parameters of the culture, such as luminescence, growth, respiration, heat emission etc., was investigated. The data obtained were used to establish a correlation between changes in these parameters and in the cell metabolism when one energy substrate was substituted by another.