Article
Paenibacillus hodogayensis sp. nov., capable of degrading the polysaccharide produced by Sphaerotilus natans.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Mar 2005
Takeda Minoru, Suzuki Ichiro, Koizumi Jun-Ichi
Abstract excerpt
Sphaerotilus natans is a sheathed bacterium often found in activated sludge that has a bulking problem. A bacterial strain that is able to degrade the extracellular polysaccharide produced by S. natans was isolated. The isolate was a spore-forming, aerobic, rod-shaped bacterium. The Gram reaction...
Topics
- Aerobiosis
- Bacillus
- DNA, Bacterial
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Endospore-Forming Bacteria
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- Polysaccharides, Bacterial
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sewage
- Sphaerotilus