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Enrichment and isolation of a nitropropanol-metabolizing bacterium from the rumen
R C Anderson1, M A Rasmussen, M J Allison
1Enteric Diseases and Food Safety Research Unit, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa 50010, USA.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|October 1, 1996
Abstract:
A bacterium capable of metabolizing nitropropanol, nitropropionate, and nitrate has been isolated from a mixed ruminal population enriched for enhanced rates of nitropropanol metabolism. The numbers of nitropropanol-metabolizing bacteria in mixed populations increased > 10,000-fold during enrichment; the rates of nitropropanol metabolism increased 8-fold. Hydrogen and phytone were important nutrients for nitropropanol metabolism.