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Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans gen nov, sp nov: Mixed-culture ferrous iron oxidation with Sulfobacillus species
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UNSPECIFIED (1996) Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans gen nov, sp nov: Mixed-culture ferrous iron oxidation with Sulfobacillus species. MICROBIOLOGY-UK, 142 (Part 4). pp. 785-790. ISSN 1350-0872.
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Abstract
A new species of ferrous-iron-oxidizing, moderately thermophilic, acidophilic bacteria, Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans, has been described. Two isolates of the species differed only in the tendency of one, previously known as strain TH3, to grow in filaments. The chromosomal DNA base composition is between 67 and 69 mol% G + C. The capacity of this species to fix CO2 from air was greater than that of iron-oxidizing thermoacidophiles of the genus Sulfobacillus, which required an enhanced CO2 concentration for optimum autotrophic growth. Under air, ferrous iron oxidation in mixed cultures of A. ferrooxidans with either Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans or Sulfobacillus acidophilus was more extensive than in pure cultures of these three strains, The greater part of ferrous iron oxidation in mixed cultures probably resulted from activity of the Sulfobacillus species, which possess a greater tolerance of ferric iron, and which presumably grew mixotrophically utilizing organic compounds from A. ferrooxidans.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QR Microbiology | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | MICROBIOLOGY-UK | ||||
Publisher: | SOC GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY | ||||
ISSN: | 1350-0872 | ||||
Official Date: | April 1996 | ||||
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Volume: | 142 | ||||
Number: | Part 4 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 6 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 785-790 | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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