Microbial Growth Factors :

Microbial Growth Factors : 

✓ Growth Factors : Growth factors are organic compounds such as amino acids , purines , pyrimidines , and vitamins that a cell must have for growth but cannot synthesize itself.

Organisms having complex nutritional requirements and needing many growth factors...

Many microbes required enzymes and metabolic pathways to synthesize their cell components but some of them are lack of it hence requirement of organic compunds comes in demand the reason behind it they are essential cell components or the precursors of it the components which cant be synthesized by microbes termed as " Growth Factors".

Here are we are going to learn about the three classes of Growth Factors -

1.Amino Acids (aa) - amino acids are rquired for the protein synthesis.

2.Purines & Pyrimidines (PP) - Purines & Pyrimidines are required for Nucleic Acid (N.A) Synthesis.

3.Vitamins (Vit) - Vitamins are the organic molecules which are smalls in size which are parts of enzymes co-factor or have very small amounts sustain growth of microbes.

1.Amino acids are organic compounds that combine to form proteins. Amino acids and proteins are the building blocks of life.

When proteins are digested or broken down, amino acids are left the human body uses amino acids to make proteins to help the body : Break down food.

Breaking down of the Nucleic acid gives

These are nothing but the suger attachments of phospho-nitrogenous groups They are nitrogenous bases that make up the two different nucleotides in DNA and RNA.

Breaking down of the Nucleic acid gives

Purines (adenine and guanine) are two-carbon nitrogen ring bases while pyrimidines (cytosine and thymine) are one-carbon nitrogen ring bases. Given below in a tabular column are the differences between Purines and Pyrimidines.

Breaking down of the Nucleic acid gives

A nucleotide is made up of a phosphate, a sugar and a base.

 Above are two main types of Nucleic Acids

3.Vitamins (Vit) : A vitamin is an organic molecule that is an essential micronutrient which an organism needs in small quantities for the proper functioning of its metabolism. Essential nutrients cannot be synthesized in the organism, either at all or not in sufficient quantities, and therefore must be obtained through the diet.

Vitamins are generally the main organic micronutrients needed for bacterial metabolism, in particular the B vitamins 

✓ biotin [B7], cobalamin [B12], folate [B9], nicotinic acid [B3], pantothenic acid [B5], pyridoxine [B6], riboflavin [B2], and thiamine [B1].