Figure 2
Culture characteristics of DC3000 grown in bioreactors. DC3000 cultures were grown in MG media in bioreactors to an OD600 of ~0.3 then either ferric citrate or sodium citrate was added to increase the final concentrations by 50 μM. Samples were taken from these reactors before addition of citrate compounds and 30 minutes and 4 hours after their addition. Culture densities were measured by spectrophotometry (A). Cell associated (B) and extracellular (C) iron levels were measured by ICP-ES. Error bars represent variations across 5 biological replicates.