Steady-State growth of budding yeast populations in well-mixed continous-flow microbial reactors

Abstract A population-balance mathematical model of microbial growth in a flow reactor is formulated which incorporates an asymmetric-division, budding-cycle model of coordinated cell and nuclear division cycles for the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Analytical solutions are obtained for limiting nutrient and cell-number concentrations in the reactor as functions of basic cell cycle parameters. Frequency functions for cell mass and DNA content in the resident yeast population are also derived under different assumptions concerning cell mass and DNA synthesis and bud scar accumulation. These results, which correspond to experimentally observable medium and population variables, provide new bases for evaluating budding-yeast-cell cycle models and for deducing kinetics of mass and DNA synthesis in single cells growing in steady-state, asynchronous populations.

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