Isolation of thermophilic Desulfotomaculum strains with methanol and sulphite from solfataric mud pools, and characterization of Desulfotomaculum solfataricum

• Published in: International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
• Main Authors: Goorissen, H.P., Stams, A.J.M., Hansen, T.A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: anaerobic bacterium; deep; gen-nov; marine sediment; oil-field waters; reductive dechlorination; reservoir; sulfate-reducing bacterium; tetrachloroethene; thermodesulfobacterium-commune; Krafla; Iceland
• Online Access: https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/isolation-of-thermophilic-desulfotomaculum-strains-with-methanol-; https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02476-0

Four strains of thermophilic, endospore-forming, sulfate-reducing bacteria were enriched and isolated from hot solfataric fields in the Krafla area of north-east Iceland, using methanol and sulfite as substrates. Morphologically, these strains resembled thermophilic Desulfotomaculum species. The str...