Methanol utilizing Desulfotomaculum species utilizes hydrogen in a methanol-fed sulfate-reducing bioreactor

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1203-1211

  Balk, Melike ^a   Weijma, Jan ^a   Goorissen, Heleen P ^a,b   Ronteltap, Mariska ^a   Hansen, Theo A ^b   Stams, Alfons J M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Desulfotomaculum; Methanol; Sulfate reducing bacterium; Thermophile

Indexed keywords

ACETAL RESINS; BACTERIA; GROWTH KINETICS; HYDROGEN INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; METHANOL; PHYSIOLOGY; REDUCTION; SULFATE MINERALS;

DESULFOTOMACULUM; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; SULFATE-REDUCING BIOREACTORS; THERMOPHILES;

BIOREACTORS;

ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL; BUTANOL; BUTYRIC ACID; FORMIC ACID; FUMARIC ACID; HYDROGEN; ISOBUTANOL; LACTIC ACID; MALIC ACID; METHANOL; PROPANOL; PROPIONIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID; RNA 16S; SUCCINIC ACID; SULFATE; SULFIDE;

ACETATE; BIOREACTOR; GROWTH RATE; HYDROGEN; METHANOL; REDUCTION; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; SULFIDE; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOREACTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESULFOTOMACULUM; DESULFOTOMACULUM AUSTRALICUM; DESULFOTOMACULUM THERMOCISTERNUM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MOORELLA; MOORELLA MULDERI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMOTOGA; THERMOTOGA LETTINGAE;

ACETIC ACID; BIOREACTORS; CARBON DIOXIDE; DESULFOTOMACULUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; GRAM-NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC STRAIGHT, CURVED, AND HELICAL RODS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HYDROGEN; METHANOL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SULFATES; SULFIDES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOTOMACULUM; DESULFOTOMACULUM AUSTRALICUM; DESULFOTOMACULUM THERMOCISTERNUM; MOORELLA MULDERI; THERMOTOGA LETTINGAE;

EID: 33845863664     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-006-0590-4     Document Type: Article

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