@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.005142, author = "Mao, Zhuqing and Gräßle, Fabian and Frey, Jasmin and Franchini, Paolo and Schleheck, David and Müller, Nicolai and Schink, Bernhard", title = "Phosphitispora fastidiosa gen. nov. sp. nov., a new dissimilatory phosphite-oxidizing anaerobic bacterium isolated from anaerobic sewage sludge", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2021", volume = "71", number = "12", pages = "", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005142", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.005142", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "phosphite oxidation", keywords = "Phosphitispora fastidiosa gen. nov., sp. nov", keywords = "sporulation", eid = "005142", abstract = "A new strictly anaerobic bacterium, strain DYL19T, was enriched and isolated with phosphite as the sole electron donor and CO2 as a single carbon source and electron acceptor from anaerobic sewage sludge sampled at a sewage treatment plant in Constance, Germany. It is a Gram-positive, spore-forming, slightly curved, rod-shaped bacterium which oxidizes phosphite to phosphate while reducing CO2 to biomass and small amounts of acetate. Optimal growth is observed at 30 °C, pH 7.2, with a doubling time of 3 days. Beyond phosphite, no further inorganic or organic electron donor can be used, and no other electron acceptor than CO2 is reduced. Sulphate inhibits growth with phosphite and CO2. The G+C content is 45.95 mol%, and dimethylmenaquinone-7 is the only quinone detectable in the cells. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis and other chemotaxonomic properties, strain DYL19T is described as the type strain of a new genus and species, Phosphitispora fastidiosa gen. nov., sp. nov.", }