Isolation and characterization of an anaerobic dehydrodivanillin-degrading bacterium

A novel, strictly anaerobic, gram-negative, non-spore-forming, fusiform, rod-shaped bacterium having high dehydrodivanillin (DDV)-degrading activity was isolated from cow ruminal fluid. This strain degraded a range of six main lignin-related compounds such as DDV, ferulic acid, dehydrodiisoeugenol, guaiacoxyacetic acid, vanillin, and veratrylglycerol-beta-guaiacyl ether to the extent of 14 to 83% within 2 days under strictly anaerobic conditions. As DDV degradation intermediates, three aromatic compounds (dehydrodivanillic acid, vanillic acid, and 5-carboxyvanillic acid) and two alicyclic compounds (cyclohexanecarboxylic acid and cyclohexanol) were detected by thin-layer, high-performance liquid, and gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. The addition of 1% glucose and peptone in a synthetic medium stimulated growth of the strain but slowed down DDV degradation. The presence of 0.1% yeast extract increased both cell growth and DDV degradation. The growth yield in defined medium was 151.5 g (dry weight) of cells per mol of DDV utilized. Characterization of the strain indicated that it was distinct from known Fusobacterium and Clostridium species. The bacterium was easily induced to form protoplasts after treatment with either penicillin or lysozyme. The frequencies of protoplast formation and regeneration in the strain were 94 and 18%, respectively.     

Isolation and characterization of an anaerobic chlorophenol-transforming bacterium.

An obligately anaerobic bacterium which transforms several chlorinated phenols was isolated. Dechlorination of the substituents ortho to the phenolic OH group was preferred, while removal of a meta-substituted chlorine was observed only with 3,5-dichlorophenol. The bacterium was a gram-positive, endospore-forming, motile, slightly curved rod. Sulfate was not reduced. Nitrate was reduced via nitrite to ammonium. The bacterium is related to the genus Clostridium. The highest growth rate was obtained in a medium containing pyruvate and yeast extract. Pyruvate supported growth as the sole source of carbon, and the fermentation of pyruvate produced almost equimolar amounts of acetate.     

Isolation and characterization of an anaerobic dehydrodivanillin-degrading bacterium.

A novel, strictly anaerobic, gram-negative, non-spore-forming, fusiform, rod-shaped bacterium having high dehydrodivanillin (DDV)-degrading activity was isolated from cow ruminal fluid. This strain degraded a range of six main lignin-related compounds such as DDV, ferulic acid, dehydrodiisoeugenol, guaiacoxyacetic acid, vanillin, and veratrylglycerol-beta-guaiacyl ether to the extent of 14 to 83% within 2 days under strictly anaerobic conditions. As DDV degradation intermediates, three aromatic compounds (dehydrodivanillic acid, vanillic acid, and 5-carboxyvanillic acid) and two alicyclic compounds (cyclohexanecarboxylic acid and cyclohexanol) were detected by thin-layer, high-performance liquid, and gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. The addition of 1% glucose and peptone in a synthetic medium stimulated growth of the strain but slowed down DDV degradation. The presence of 0.1% yeast extract increased both cell growth and DDV degradation. The growth yield in defined medium was 151.5 g (dry weight) of cells per mol of DDV utilized. Characterization of the strain indicated that it was distinct from known Fusobacterium and Clostridium species. The bacterium was easily induced to form protoplasts after treatment with either penicillin or lysozyme. The frequencies of protoplast formation and regeneration in the strain were 94 and 18%, respectively.     

一株嗜热厌氧杆菌的分离、鉴定及其代谢特征

【目的】分离、保护油藏嗜热微生物资源,解析其主要的代谢特征。【方法】利用Hungte厌氧分离技术从大港油田埕海一区油层采出液中分离出厌氧菌株BF1。通过生理生化特征分析、16S rRNA基因序列比对与电化学分析,确定BF1的分类地位及其S元素代谢对腐蚀电流的影响。【结果】菌株BF1为严格嗜热厌氧革兰氏阴性杆菌,顶端产芽孢、不运动,菌体大小为0.42μm×(1.6 5.4)μm,单生、成对或成串生长。其温度生长范围为45°C 75°C(最适温度60°C);pH生长范围在4.5 8.5(最适pH 6.5)之间,比生长速率(μm)0.99 h 1,倍增时间为42 min。能利用葡萄糖、松三糖、棉子糖、甘露糖、乳糖、纤维二糖、果糖、核糖等碳水化合物,利用葡萄糖发酵的产物是乙醇、乙酸、CO2及少量的H2。菌株BF1能还原亚硫酸盐与硫代硫酸盐产生H2S,其耐受上限分别为50 mmol/L和75 mmol/L;还原硫代硫酸钠(50 mmol/L)后其极化电阻由2 099/cm2降低至776/cm2,腐蚀电流由9.936e-006 A提高至3.25e-005 A。细胞膜脂肪酸主要由高级饱和脂肪酸组成,含量最丰富的为十五烷酸占70.6%。菌株BF1的DNA(G+C)mol%含量为34.0%,其16S rRNA与Thermoanaerobacter pseudethanolicus DSM 2355T相似性最高,为98.3%,与T.brockii subsp.brockii DSM 1457T次之,为98.0%。菌株BF1的许多生理、生化特征与T.pseudethanolicus DSM 2355T和T.brockii subsp.brockii DSM 1457T有着明显的差别,如倍增时间、最适生长温度及底物利用等;而菌株BF1的细胞膜脂肪酸组成与T.pseude-thanolicus DSM 2355T也不相同。【结论】菌株BF1可能是Thermoanaerobacter属中的一个新种,其确切分类地位还需要进一步进行DNA分子杂交;其代谢元素硫提高腐蚀电流密度,可能会对油田管道与设备造成腐蚀。     

Isolation and characterization of an anaerobic chlorophenol-transforming bacterium.

An obligately anaerobic bacterium which transforms several chlorinated phenols was isolated. Dechlorination of the substituents ortho to the phenolic OH group was preferred, while removal of a meta-substituted chlorine was observed only with 3,5-dichlorophenol. The bacterium was a gram-positive, endospore-forming, motile, slightly curved rod. Sulfate was not reduced. Nitrate was reduced via nitrite to ammonium. The bacterium is related to the genus Clostridium. The highest growth rate was obtained in a medium containing pyruvate and yeast extract. Pyruvate supported growth as the sole source of carbon, and the fermentation of pyruvate produced almost equimolar amounts of acetate.     

Isolation and characterization of an extremely thermophilic,cellulolytic, anaerobic bacterium

Summary A cellulolyticm obligately anaerobic, extreme thermophile (strain NA10) was isolated from an alkaline hot spring in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The microorganism was a non-spore-forming, flagellated rod which had a negative reaction to Gram stain, and occurred singly or in pairs. The growth temperature was between 50° C and 85° C with the optimum at 75° C, and the growth pH was between 6.0 and 9.5 with the optimum at 8.1. The anaerobe characteristically fermented cellulose, and produced acetic acid, H₂, CO₂ (main products) and lactic acid (minor product). The DNA had a base composition of 37.7 mol% guanine+cytosine content.     

Isolation and characterization of an anaerobic syntrophic benzoate-degrading bacterium from sewage sludge

An anaerobic, motile, gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium is described which degrades benzoate in coculture with an H₂-utilizing organism and in the absence of exogenous electron acceptors such as O₂, SO ₄ ⁼ or NO ₃ ^- . The bacterium was isolated from a municipal primary, anaerobic sewage digestor using anaerobic roll-tube medium with benzoate as the main energy source and in syntrophic association with an H₂-utilizing sulfate-reducing Desulfovibrio sp. which cannot utilize benzoate or fatty acids apart from formate as energy source. The benzoate utilizer produced acetate (3 mol/mol of substrate degraded) and presumably CO₂ and H₂, or formate from benzoate. In media without sulfate and with Methanospirillum hungatei (a methanogen that utilizes only H₂–CO₂ or formate as the energy source) added, 3 mol of acetate and 0.7 mol of methane were produced per mol of benzoate and CO₂ was probably formed. Low numbers of Desulfovibrio sp. were present in the methanogenic coculture and a pure coculture of the benzoate utilizer with M. hungatei was not obtained. The generation times for growth of the sulfate-reducing and methanogenic cocultures were 132 and 166h, respectively. The benzoate utilizer did not utilize other common aromatic compounds, C ₃ ^- –C₇ monocarboxylic acids, or C₄-C₆ dicarboxylic acids for growth, nor did it appear to use SO ₄ ⁼ , NO ₃ ^- or fumarate as alternative electron acceptors. Addition of H₂ inhibited growth and benzoate degradation.     

Isolation and characterization of a furfural degrading sulfate-reducing bacterium from an anaerobic digester

A sulfate-reducing bacterium (SRB) was isolated from a continuous anaerobic digester, which converted the furfural-containing wastewater to methane and CO₂. This SRB isolate could use furfural, furfuryl alcohol, and 2-furoic acid as sole source of carbon and energy in a defined mineral sulfate medium. Acetic acid was the major end product of furfural degradation. This organism also used wide varieties of other carbon sources, including ethanol, pyruvate, lactate, succinate, propanol, formate, and malate. The SRB isolate contained the electron carrier desulfoviridin. It used SO₄, NO₃, and thiosulfate as electron acceptors. This isolate used ammonium chloride, nitrate and glutamate as nitrogen source. The characteristics of the SRB isolate were closely similar toDesulfovibrio sp.     

Isolation and characterization of a methyl chloride utilizing,strictly anaerobic bacterium

From sludge obtained from the sewage digester plant in Stuttgart-Möhringen a strictly anaerobic bacterium was enriched and isolated with methyl chloride as the energy source. The isolate, which was tentatively called strain MC, was nonmotile, gram-positive, and occurred as elongated cocci arranged in chains. Cells of strain MC formed about 3 mol of acetate per 4 mol of CH₃Cl consumed, indicating that the organism was a homoacetogenic bacterium fermenting methyl chloride plus CO₂ according to: The organism grew with 2–3% methyl chloride in the gas phase at a doubling time of near 30 h. Dichloromethane was not utilized. The bacterium also grew on carbon monoxide, H₂ plus CO₂, and methoxylated aromatic compounds. Optimal growth with methyl chloride was observed at 25°C and pH 7.3–7.7. The G+C-content of the DNA was 47.5±1.5%. The methyl chloride conversion appeared to be inducible, since H₂ plus CO₂-grown cells lacked this ability. From the morphological and physiological characteristics, the isolate could not be affiliated to a known species.     

嗜热厌氧纤维素分解菌的分离、鉴定及其酶学特性

【目的】分离高效降解纤维素的嗜热厌氧菌,通过与嗜热产乙醇菌株联合培养的方式,为生产纤维素乙醇提供微生物资源。【方法】利用厌氧分离技术从降解纤维素的马粪富集物中分离到一株嗜热厌氧细菌HCp。采用形态学观察、生理生化鉴定、结合16S rDNA序列的系统发育学分析确定该菌株的分类地位,利用DNS酶活分析方法测定此分离菌株的酶学性质。【结果】分离菌株HCp革兰氏染色阴性,直杆,细胞单个或成对出现,菌体大小为(0.35-0.50)μm×(2.42-6.40)μm,严格厌氧,形成芽胞,能运动,对新霉素有一定的抗性。此菌能利用滤纸纤维素、纤维素粉、微晶纤维素、脱脂棉和水稻秸秆、明胶等,还可以利用葡萄糖、纤维二糖、木糖、木聚糖、果糖、蔗糖、核糖、半乳糖、麦芽糖、山梨糖、海藻糖、蜜二糖、甘露糖等。该菌株在pH6.5-8.5、温度35-70℃、盐浓度0%-1.0%范围内利用纤维素生长,最适pH为6.85,最适温度为60℃,最适NaCl浓度为0.2%,最佳生长条件下,在10 d内滤纸纤维素降解率可达90.40%。在HCp的纤维小体中,滤纸酶、羧甲基纤维素酶、β-葡萄糖苷酶、木聚糖酶的最适作用温度分别为70℃、70℃、70℃、60℃,并且羧甲基纤维素酶具有较高的热稳定性。部分长度的16S rDNA序列分析表明,分离菌株HCp与Acetivibrio cellulolyticus、A.cellulosolvens相似性为97.5%。【结论】分离菌株HCp是从马粪富集物中分离到的一株嗜热厌氧细菌,该菌具有较强的降解纤维素能力,生长温度范围广,酶的热稳定性好,纤维素底物利用广泛等特性,为纤维素降解产乙醇提供了良好的材料。     

Isolation and characterization of carboxylesterase from vinyl acetate-assimilating bacterium isolated from soil

A bacterium Pseudomonas species which is able to assimilate vinyl acetate and other esters as a sole source of carbon was isolated from soil. The bacterium contained three kinds of esterases (esterases I, II and III) which were separable on DEAE-cellulose column chromatography. Esterase II was purified and characterized. The enzyme is a monomer with the molecular weight of 27,000 and it hydrolyzed various esters most efficiently at pH 8.0. The activity of the enzyme was inhibited by diisopropylfluorophosphate. The purified enzyme was different from other esterases so far found in Pseudomonas sp. with respect to molecular structure and substrate specificity.     

Purification and characterization of flagella from Roseburia cecicola, an obligately anaerobic bacterium

Flagella from Roseburia cecicola, an obligately anaerobic bacterium originally isolated from murine caecal mucosa, were purified by mechanical shearing followed by differential centrifugation. Purity of the flagellar preparation was determined by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, electron microscopy and chemical analysis. The flagella were composed of a single protein subunit (flagellin) with an estimated molecular weight of 42 000. The amino acid composition of the flagellin was similar to that of some facultatively anaerobic and aerobic bacteria.     

Isolation and characterization of an anaerobic ruminal bacterium capable of degrading hydrolyzable tannins.

An anaerobic diplococcoid bacterium able to degrade hydrolyzable tannins was isolated from the ruminal fluid of a goat fed desmodium (Desmodium ovalifolium), a tropical legume which contains levels as high as 17% condensed tannins. This strain grew under anaerobic conditions in the presence of up to 30 g of tannic acid per liter and tolerated a range of phenolic monomers, including gallic, ferulic, and p-coumaric acids. The predominant fermentation product from tannic acid breakdown was pyrogallol, as detected by high-performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry. Tannic acid degradation was dependent on the presence of a sugar such as glucose, fructose, arabinose, sucrose, galactose, cellobiose, or soluble starch as an added carbon and energy source. The strain also demonstrated resistance to condensed tannins up to a level of 4 g/liter.     

Isolation and characterization of an anaerobic benzoate-degrading spore-forming sulfate-reducing bacterium, Desulfotomaculum sapomandens sp. nov.

Abstract Spore-forming sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) were enriched selectively from various kinds of aerobic soils with fatty acids as the sole carbon and energy source. A Gram-negative motile rod-shaped bacterium, which produced gas vacuoles during sporulation was isolated. It degraded alcohols, aromatic and n-fatty acids (up to C₁₈) except for propionate, completely to CO₂. Sulfate, sulfite, thiosulfate or elemental sulfur served as electron acceptors. Because of its sensitivity to H₂S, the isolate never produced more than 8 mM dissolved sulfide at pH 7.0. G + C-content of the DNA was 48.0 mol %. The isolated strain Pato is described as a new species Desulfotomaculum sapomandens .     

Isolation and characterization of an arsenate-reducing bacterium and its application for arsenic extraction from contaminated soil

A Gram-negative anaerobic bacterium, Citrobacter sp. NC-1, was isolated from soil contaminated with arsenic at levels as high as 5,000 mg As kg⁻¹. Strain NC-1 completely reduced 20 mM arsenate within 24 h and exhibited arsenate-reducing activity at concentrations as high as 60 mM. These results indicate that strain NC-1 is superior to other dissimilatory arsenate-reducing bacteria with respect to arsenate reduction, particularly at high concentrations. Strain NC-1 was also able to effectively extract arsenic from contaminated soils via the reduction of solid-phase arsenate to arsenite, which is much less adsorptive than arsenate. To characterize the reductase systems in strain NC-1, arsenate and nitrate reduction activities were investigated using washed-cell suspensions and crude cell extracts from cells grown on arsenate or nitrate. These reductase activities were induced individually by the two electron acceptors. This may be advantageous during bioremediation processes in which both contaminants are present.     

Isolation and characterization of bacteriochlorophyll-protein complexes from an aerobic bacterium,Pseudomonas radiora

Bacteriochlorophyll(Bchl)-protein complexes were isolated from a strictly aerobic and facultative methylotrophic bacterium Pseudomonas radiora strain MD-1. They were identified as the reaction center (RC)-B870 and the B870 complexes on the basis of their absorption spectra, light induced spectral changes and polypeptide compositions. The RC-B870 complex of this bacterium showed similar properties to those of typical purple photosynthetic bacteria, and contained c-type cytochrome which was oxidized upon illumination.Abbreviations Bchl bacteriochlorophyll - RC reaction center - SDS sodium dodecylsulfate - PAGE polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis     

Purification, cloning, and characterization of an arylsulfotransferase from the anaerobic bacterium Eubacterium rectale IIIH

A bacterium, Eubacterium rectale IIIH, which possessed arylsulfotransferase (ASST) activity was isolated from human feces. The ASST gene (astA) was cloned and the corresponding protein partially characterized. This gene shows only moderate homology to the previously sequenced ASST genes of Klebsiella and Enterobacter, which are very closely related to each other. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology (2000) 25, 305–309. Received 02 August 2000/ Accepted in revised form 19 November 2000     

Clostridium autoethanogenum,sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium that produces ethanol from carbon monoxide

A strictly anaerobic, gram-positive, sporeforming, rod-like, motile bacterium was enriched from rabbit feces, and isolated using carbon monoxide as sole source of energy and carbon. The isolate metabolizes CO with ethanol, acetate and CO₂ as end-products. Other substrates used as carbon and energy sources include CO₂ plus H₂, pyruvate, xylose, arabinose, fructose, rhamnose, and l-glutamate. The optimum temperature for growth is 37°C. The optimum pH for chemolithotrophic growth lies around 5.8 to 6.0 Sulfate is not reduced. Growth is inhibited either by penicillin, chloramphenicol, tetracyclin or ampicillin, each at 100 g per ml. The isolate has a DNA-base composition of 25.9±0.6% guanine plus cytosine. The isolate represents a new species of Clostridium for which the name Clostridium autoethanogenum is proposed. The type strain is strain JA1-1     

Features of a Clostridium,strain CV-AA1, an obligatory anaerobic bacterium producing acetic acid from methanol

Isolation and characterization of a new, obligatory, anaerobic, methylotrophic, homoacetogenic bacterium is described. This bacterium is a mesophilic, motile, slightly curved rod that demonstrated a negative Gram reaction, formed spherical, (sub)terminal spores and performed a homoacetic fermentation with methanol, a CO₂–2H₂-gas mixture, glucose or fructose, respectively, as the substrate. The methanol fermentation proceeded only when a suitable amount of NaHCO₃ was available in the nutrient solution supplied.     

厌氧丁草胺降解菌BAD-20的分离鉴定及降解特性研究

[目的]分离并鉴定能够降解除草剂丁草胺的厌氧微生物菌株,研究其厌氧降解丁草胺的特性和代谢途径,为深入研究丁草胺厌氧降解机制提供依据.[方法]以丁草胺为碳源作为选择压力从水稻田土壤中富集驯化丁草胺降解菌,利用16SrRNA基因系统发育分析结合菌株培养特征对降解菌株进行初步鉴定,利用液相色谱-时间飞行质谱(LC-TOF-M...