Isolation and Characterization of a Thermophilic Sulfate-Reducing Bacterium, Desulfotomaculum thermosapovorans sp. nov.
FARDEAU, MARIE-LAURE and OLLIVIER, BERNARD and PATEL, BHARAT K. C. and DWIVEDI, PREM and RAGOT, MICHEL and GARCIA, JEAN-LOUIS,, 45, 218-221 (1995),
doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-45-2-218,
publicationName = Microbiology Society,
issn = 1466-5026,
abstract= Strain MLFT (T = type strain), a new thermophilic, spore-forming sulfate-reducing bacterium, was characterized and was found to be phenotypically, genotypically, and phylogenetically related to the genus Desulfotomaculum. This organism was isolated from a butyrate enrichment culture that had been inoculated with a mixed compost containing rice hulls and peanut shells. The optimum temperature for growth was 50°C. The G+C content of the DNA was 51.2 mol%. Strain MLFT incompletely oxidized pyruvate, butyrate, and butanol to acetate and presumably CO2. It used long-chain fatty acids and propanediols. We observed phenotypic and phylogenetic differences between strain MLFT and other thermophilic Desulfotomaculum species that also oxidize long-chain fatty acids. On the basis of our results, we propose that strain MLFT is a member of a new species, Desulfotomaculum thermosapovorans.,
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