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Volume 58, Issue 6

sp. nov., a benzyl alcohol-oxidizing, sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from a gas condensate-contaminated aquifer Free

Abstract

Phenotypic and phylogenetic studies were performed on a novel sulfate-reducing bacterium, strain D41, isolated as part of a methanogenic syntrophic culture from a gas condensate-contaminated aquifer undergoing intrinsic bioremediation. The bacterium was a Gram-negative, non-spore-forming, curved rod, motile by a single polar flagellum, which oxidized several alcohols incompletely, including methanol, ethanol, 1-propanol, 2-propanol, 1-butanol, 2-butanol, 3-methyl-1-butanol (isoamyl alcohol), ethylene glycol, 1,2-propanediol, 1,3-propanediol, 1,4-butanediol, phenylethanol and benzyl alcohol. Additionally, the strain oxidized H/CO, formate, lactate, pyruvate, maleate, malate and fumarate. Sulfate, thiosulfate and sulfite were used as electron acceptors. The DNA G+C content was 63 mol%. Based on phylogenetic and phenotypic evidence, the novel species sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is D41 (=ATCC BAA-1241 =DSM 17524).

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Keyword(s): BTEX, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and isomers of xylene and SRB, sulfate-reducing bacteria(um)
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Transmission electron micrograph of a negatively stained cell of strain D41 . Bar, 1 µm.

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Time courses of conversion of benzyl alcohol to benzoate by strain D41 in pure culture (Fig. S2) and conversion of benzyl alcohol to benzoate with concurrent methane production by strain D41 in co-culture with a hydrogen-using methanogen, strain M41 (Fig. S3). [PDF](68 KB)

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