TY - JOUR
T1 - Production of sound waves by bacterial cells and the response of bacterial cells to sound
AU - Matsuhashi, Michio
AU - Pankrushina, Alla N.
AU - Takeuchi, Satoshi
AU - Ohshima, Hideyuki
AU - Miyoi, Housaku
AU - Endoh, Katsura
AU - Murayama, Ken
AU - Watanabe, Hiroshi
AU - Endo, Shigeo
AU - Tobi, Mikio
AU - Mano, Yoshihiro
AU - Hyodo, Masao
AU - Kobayashi, Torakichi
AU - Kaneko, Tomohiko
AU - Otani, Sugio
AU - Yoshimura, Susumu
AU - Harata, Akira
AU - Sawada, Tsuguo
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - Bacterial cells enhance the proliferation of neighboring cells under stress conditions by emitting a physical signal. Continuous single sine sound waves produced by a speaker at frequencies of 6-10, 18-22, and 28-38 kHz promoted colony formation by Bacillus carboniphilus under non-permissive stress conditions of high KCl concentration and high temperature. Furthermore, sound waves emitted from cells of Bacillus subtilis at frequencies between 8 and 43 kHz with broad peaks at approximately 8.5, 19, 29, and 37 kHz were detected using a sensitive microphone system. The similarity between the frequency of the sound produced by B. subtilis and the frequencies that induced a response in B. carboniphilus and the previously observed growth-promoting effect of B. subtilis cells upon B. carboniphilus through iron barriers, suggest that the detected sound waves function as a growth-regulatory signal between cells.
AB - Bacterial cells enhance the proliferation of neighboring cells under stress conditions by emitting a physical signal. Continuous single sine sound waves produced by a speaker at frequencies of 6-10, 18-22, and 28-38 kHz promoted colony formation by Bacillus carboniphilus under non-permissive stress conditions of high KCl concentration and high temperature. Furthermore, sound waves emitted from cells of Bacillus subtilis at frequencies between 8 and 43 kHz with broad peaks at approximately 8.5, 19, 29, and 37 kHz were detected using a sensitive microphone system. The similarity between the frequency of the sound produced by B. subtilis and the frequencies that induced a response in B. carboniphilus and the previously observed growth-promoting effect of B. subtilis cells upon B. carboniphilus through iron barriers, suggest that the detected sound waves function as a growth-regulatory signal between cells.
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U2 - 10.2323/jgam.44.49
DO - 10.2323/jgam.44.49
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031761159
SN - 0022-1260
VL - 44
SP - 49
EP - 55
JO - Journal of General and Applied Microbiology
JF - Journal of General and Applied Microbiology
IS - 1
ER -