Characterization of two subsurface H2-utilizing bacteria, Desulfomicrobium hypogeium sp. nov. and Acetobacterium psammolithicum sp. nov., and their ecological roles

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2300-2306

  Krumholz, Lee R ^a   Harris, Steve H ^a   Tay, Stephen T ^b,c   Suflita, Joseph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA; HYDROGEN;

BACTERIUM; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; REDUCTION; SULFATE; UNDERGROUND ENVIRONMENT;

ACETOBACTER; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; GRAM POSITIVE ASPOROGENOUS ROD-SHAPED BACTERIA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES;

ACETOBACTER; ACETOBACTERIUM PSAMMOLITHICUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOMICROBIUM HYPOGEIUM; NEGIBACTERIA;

DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GRAM-POSITIVE RODS; HYDROGEN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW MEXICO; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA;

EID: 0032587085     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.6.2300-2306.1999     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Ausubel, F. M., R. Brent, R. E. Kingston, D. D. Moore, J. G. Seidman, J. A. Smith, and K. Struhl (ed.). 1992. Short protocols in molecular biology, 2nd ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York, N.Y.
2. Balch, W. E., and R. S. Wolfe. 1976. New approach to the cultivation of methanogenic bacteria: 2-mercaptoethanesulfonic acid (HS-CoM)-dependent growth of Methanobacterium ruminantium in a pressurized atmosphere. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 32:781-791.
3. Brauman, A., M. D. Kane, M. Labat, and J. A. Breznak. 1992. Genesis of acetate and methane by gut bacteria of nutritionally diverse termites. Science 257:1384-1387.
4. Breznak, J. A. 1994. Acetogenesis from carbon dioxide in termite guts, p. 303-330. In H. L. Drake (ed.), Acetogenesis. Chapman and Hall, London, United Kingdom.
5. Chapelle, F. H., and P. M. Bradley. 1996. Microbial acetogenesis as a source of organic acids in ancient Atlantic Coastal Plain sediments. Geology 24: 925-928.
6. Cline, J. D. 1969. Spectrophotometric determination of hydrogen sulfide in natural waters. Limnol. Oceanogr. 14:454-458.
7. Cord-Ruwisch, R., H.-J. Seitz, and R. Conrad. 1988. The capacity of hydrogenotrophic anaerobic bacteria to compete for traces of hydrogen depends on the redox potential of the terminal electron acceptor. Arch. Microbiol. 149:350-357.
8. DeLong, E. 1992. Archaea in coastal marine environments. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89:5685-5689.
9. Dore, J., and M. P. Bryant. 1989. Lipid growth requirement and influence of lipid supplement on fatty acid and aldehyde composition of Syntrophococcus sucromutans. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 55:927-933.
10. Felsenstein, J. 1989. PHYLIP - phylogeny inference package. Cladistics 5: 164-166.
11. Fredrickson, J. K., J. P. McKinley, B. N. Bjornstad, P. E. Long, D. B. Ringelberg, D. C. White, L. R. Krumholz, J. M. Suflita, F. S. Colwell, R. M. Lehman, and T. J. Phelps. 1997. Pore-size constraints on the activity and survival of subsurface bacteria in a late Cretaceous shale-sandstone sequence, northwestern New Mexico. Geomicrobiol. J. 14:183-202.
12. Fredrickson, J. K., and T. J. Phelps. 1996. Subsurface drilling and sampling, p. 526-540. In G. Knudsen, L. Stetzenbach, M. M. McInerney, and M. Walter (ed.), Manual of Environmental Microbiology. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C.
13. Genthner, B. R. S., S. D. Friedman, and R. Devereux. 1997. Reclassification of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans Norway 4 as Desulfomicrobium norvegicum comb. nov. and confirmation of Desulfomicrobium escambiense (corrig., formerly "escambium") as a new species in the genus Desulfomicrobium. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 47:889-892.
14. Genthner, B. R. S., G. Mundfrom, and R. Devereux. 1994. Characterization of Desulfomicrobium escambium sp. nov. and proposal to assign Desulfovibrio desulfuricans strain Norway 4 to the genus Desulfomicrobium. Arch. Microbiol. 161:215-219.
15. Harris, S. H., and J. M. Suflita. 1998. Hydrogen consumption kinetics of acetogens and their abilities to compete with other hydrogenotrophs, abstr. N103. In Abstracts of the 98th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology 1998. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C.
16. Hungate, R. E. 1969. A roll tube method for cultivation of strict anaerobes, p. 117-132. In J. R. Norris and D. W. Ribbons (ed.), Methods in microbiology. Academic Press, Inc., New York, N.Y.
17. Jones, J. G., and B. M. Simon. 1985. Interaction of acetogens and methanogens in anaerobic freshwater sediments. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 49:944-948.
18. 2 or formate to degrade gallate, pyrogallol, phloroglucinol and quercetin. Arch. Microbiol. 144:8-14.
19. Krunholz, L. R., and M. P. Bryant. 1986. Syntrophococcus sucromutans sp. nov. gen. nov. uses carbohydrates as electron donors and formate, methoxymonobenzenoids or Methanobrevibacter as electron acceptor systems. Arch. Microbiol. 143:313-318.
20. Krumholz, L. R., J. P. McKinley, G. A. Ulrich, and J. M. Suflita. 1997. Confined subsurface microbial communities in Cretaceous rock. Nature 386: 64-66.
21. Krumholz, L. R., R. Sharp, and S. S. Fishbain. 1996. A freshwater anaerobe coupling acetate oxidation to tetrachloroethylene dehalogenation. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 62:4108-4113.
22. 2-dependent anaerobic O-demethylation activity in subsurface sediments and an isolated bacterium. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 59:1325-1331.
23. 2 and syringate by Acetobacterium woodii and Eubacterium limosum. Curr. Microbiol. 31:245-250.
24. Lovley, D. R., and S. Goodwin. 1988. Hydrogen concentration as an indicator of the predominant terminal electron-accepting reactions in aquatic sediments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 52:2993-3003.
25. Lupton, F. S., and J. G. Zeikus. 1984. Physiological basis for sulfate-dependent hydrogen competition between sulfidogens and methanogens. Curr. Microbiol. 11:7-12.
26. Maidak, B. L., N. Larsen, M. J. McCaughey, R. Overbeek, G. J. Olsen, K. Fogel, J. Blandy, and C. Woese. 1994. The Ribosomal Database Project. Nucleic Acids Res. 22:3485-3487.
27. Nozhevnikova, A. N., O. R. Kotsyurbenko, and M. V. Simankova. 1994. Acetogenesis at low temperature, p. 416-431. In H. L. Drake (ed.), Acetogenesis. Chapman and Hall, London, United Kingdom.
28. Phelps, T. J., and J. G. Zeikus. 1984. Influence of pH on terminal carbon metabolism in anoxic sediments from a mildly acidic lake. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 48:1088-1095.
29. Reysenbach, A.-L., L. J. Giver, G. S. Wickham, and N. R. Pace. 1992. Differential amplification of rRNA genes by polymerase chain reaction. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 58:3417-3418.
30. 2 under resting conditions and growth conditions. Arch. Microbiol. 137:26-32.
31. Smith, S. W., R. Overbeck, G. Olsen, C. Woese, P. M. Gillevet, and W. Gilbert. 1992. Genetic data environment and the Harvard genome database, p. 190. In R. M. Myers, D. Porteous, and R. J. Roberts (ed.), Abstracts of papers presented at the 1992 Meeting on Genome Mapping and Sequencing. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
32. Supelco, Inc. 1975. GC separation of VFA C2-C5. Bulletin 749E. Supelco Inc., Bellafonte, Pa.
33. Tanaka, K., and N. Pfennig. 1988. Fermentation of 2-methoxyethanol by Acetobacterium malicum sp. nov. and Pelobacter venelianus. Arch. Microbiol. 149:181-187.
34. Tschech, A., and N. Pfennig. 1984. Growth yield increase linked to caffeate reduction in Acetobacterium woodü. Arch. Microbiol. 137:163-167.
35. Ulrich, G. A., L. R. Krumholz, and J. M. Suflita. 1997. A rapid and simple technique for measuring sulfate reduction activity and quantifying Sulfides. Appl Environ Microbiol 63:1627-1630.