title: Growth and cell structure of Proteus vulgaris when cultivated in weightlessness in the Cytos apparatus.
abstract: Growth data and electron-microscopic analyses are presented for Proteus vulgaris cultures which were grown during space flight in polyethylene packets in a semisolid medium with Tryptose for 96 h. In the suboptimal culture conditions the growth and morphological characteristics of the flight and ground control variants were nearly identical, but we were able to detect a number of differences between the cellular ultrastructure of these variants. These differences testify to changes in the bacterial cell metabolism during space flight.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of the Ukranian SSR Acad. Sci.
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Kordyum
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Mashinsky
authors.forename: V G
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Man'ko
authors.forename: V G
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Babski
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Sytnik
authors.forename: E L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Kordyum
authors.forename: O P
authors.initials: OP
authors.lastname: Bochagova
authors.forename: Y L
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Nefedov
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Kozharinov
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Grechko
mesh_terms: D015169:Colony Count, Microbial; D003470:Culture Media; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D011514:Proteus vulgaris / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D013026:Space Flight / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014893:Weightlessness
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media