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Gram-Negative Mesophilic Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria

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The Prokaryotes

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An overview of the sulfate-reduction process is given in Chapter 24. Most types of dissimilatory sulfate-reducing bacteria that have been isolated from nature and described so far are mesophilic, nonsporeforming anaerobes. They are members of the delta subdivision of the proteobacteria. The earliest known representative of this category is Desulfovibrio (Beijerinck, 1895). Further investigations have revealed a great morphological and nutritional diversity within this group. Various cell types have been described including cocci; oval or long straight rods; more or less curved rods or spirilla; cell packets; cells with gas vesicles; and gliding, multicellular filaments (Figs. 7–9). Electron donors used for sulfate reduction include H2, alcohols, fatty acids, other monocarboxylic acids, dicarboxylic acids, some amino acids, a few sugars, phenyl-substituted acids, and some other aromatic compounds (Table 2). Even long-chain alkanes can be anaerobically oxidized by a particular type of sulfate-reducing bacterium (Aeckersberg et al., 1991). The utilization of polysaccharides or polypeptides, such as has been observed with the extremely thermophilic sulfate-reducing archaebacterium Archaeoglobus (Stetter, 1988; Stetter et al., 1987), has not been reported for mesophilic sulfate reducers.

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Widdel, F., Bak, F. (1992). Gram-Negative Mesophilic Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria. In: Balows, A., Trüper, H.G., Dworkin, M., Harder, W., Schleifer, KH. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2191-1_21

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