Formate-Dependent Growth and Homoacetogenic Fermentation by a Bacterium from Human Feces: Description of Bryantella formatexigens gen. nov., sp. nov.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 6321-6326

  Wolin, Meyer J ^a,c   Miller, Terry L ^a   Collins, Matthew D ^b   Lawson, Paul A ^b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CELLULOSE; FERMENTATION; GLUCOSE; RNA;

HUMAN FECES;

BACTERIA;

ACETIC ACID; CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; CELLULOSE; FORMIC ACID; GLUCOSE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BRYANTELLA FORMATEXIGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; FECES; FERMENTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VEGETABLE;

ACETATES; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FECES; FERMENTATION; FORMIC ACIDS; GRAM-POSITIVE RODS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRYANTELLA FORMATEXIGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM COCCOIDES; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0142040820     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.10.6321-6326.2003     Document Type: Article

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