The following are the acronyms used in the course 

Some of the common acronyms used in the Bacterial physiology and Metabolism which you need to know from the examination point of view are:

ATP - Adenosine tri phosphate

APS - Adenosine 5-phosphosulfate

ABC - ATP Binding Cassette transporter

CFU - Colony forming unit

DPA - Dipicolinic acid

ED - Entner Doudroff pathway

EMP - Embden–Meyerhof–Parnas pathway

FAD - Flavin adenine dinucleotide

FMN - Flavin mono nucleotide

HMP - Hexose mono phosphate pathway

MPN - Most probable number

NADH or NADH H+  Nicotine adenine dinucleotide (reduced) (it should NOT be written as NADH2)

NAD - Nicotine adenine dinucleotide

Nif genes - nitrogen fixation genes

OD - optical density 

PAPS - phosphoadenosine 5' phosphosulfate

PBP - Periplasmic binding proteins

PMF - Proton motive force

PPP - Pentose phosphate pathway

PTS - phosphoenol dependent phosphotransferase system 

SBP - Solute binding protein 

TCA - Tricarboxylic acid cycle