Effect of Rheological Conditions of the Environment on Adaptive Behavior of Lactobacilli in Microculture

Adaptive behavior of lactobacilli in cultured in microchambers of different design was analyzed under a light microscope. We found that the time of appearance of first-generation cells for the studied strains of lactobacilli differed in chambers with different rheological properties (stationary and flow-through). The results of our experiments suggest that the development of populations of lactobacilli is regulated by autometabolites of different physiological modalities directly from the very first cell generations. Populations of lactobacilli are under the control of autometabolites at the initial stages of interaction with the environment under various rheological conditions. Rheological conditions of the culture medium of the first generation cells determine the development of cells of the second and probably further cell generations under the same culturing conditions.