Microbial community of a mesophilic propionate-degrading methanogenic consortium in chemostat cultivation analyzed based on 16S rRNA and acetate kinase genes

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 401-415

  Shigematsu, Toru ^a   Era, Shinobu ^a   Mizuno, Yuko ^a   Ninomiya, Kana ^a   Kamegawa, Yukiko ^a   Morimura, Shigeru ^a   Kida, Kenji ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL CELLS; MESOPHILIC ANAEROBIC CHEMOSTAT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNTHETIC WASTEWATER;

CHEMOSTATS; CLONING; ENZYMES; GENES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RNA; WASTEWATER;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ACETATE KINASE; CARBON; PROPIONIC ACID; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

ANOXIA; CHEMOSTAT; CLONE; DEGRADATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; METHANOGENIC BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CARBON DIOXIDE MEASUREMENT; CHEMOSTAT; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; FIRMICUTES; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOCULLEUS; METHANOGENESIS; METHANOSAETA; METHANOSPIRILLUM; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PELOBACTERACEAE; PELOTOMACULUM; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEADY STATE; SYNTROPHOBACTER; WASTE WATER;

ACETATE KINASE; BACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; EURYARCHAEOTA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROPIONATES; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIRMICUTES; METHANOCULLEUS; METHANOSAETA; METHANOSPIRILLUM; PELOTOMACULUM; SYNTROPHOBACTER;

EID: 33747642348     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-005-0275-4     Document Type: Article

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