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The first true obligately syntrophic propionate-oxidizing bacterium, Pelotomaculum schinkii sp. nov., co-cultured with Methanospirillum hungatei, and emended description of the genus Pelotomaculum.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Jul 2005
de Bok Frank A M, Harmsen Hermie J M, Plugge Caroline M, de Vries Maaike C, Akkermans Antoon D L, de Vos Willem M, Stams Alfons J M
Abstract excerpt
A Gram-positive, spore-forming, syntrophic propionate-oxidizing bacterium, Pelotomaculum schinkii sp. nov. strain HH(T), was isolated as a co-culture with Methanospirillum hungatei JF-1(T) from anaerobic, freeze-dried granular sludge obtained from an upflow anaerobic sludge bed reactor treating sugar beet wastewater. The bacterium converted propionate to acetate in co-culture with Methanospirillum hungatei...
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