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Sulfate reduction by a syntrophic propionate-oxidizing bacterium
1Department of Microbiology, Wageningen Agricultural University, Netherlands.
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
|November 1, 1995
Abstract:
The syntrophic propionate-oxidizing bacterium MPOB was able to grow in the absence of methanogens by coupling the oxidation of propionate to the reduction of sulfate. Growth on propionate plus sulfate was very slow (mu = 0.024 day-1). An average growth yield was found of 1.5 g (dry weight) per mol of propionate. MPOB grew even slower than other sulfate-reducing syntrophic propionate-oxidizing bacteria. The growth rates and yields of strict sulfate-reducing bacteria (Desulfobulbus sp.) grown on propionate plus sulfate are considerably higher.