Isolation and Characterization of a Moderately Halophilic Methanogen from a Solar Saltern
AUTOR(ES)
Mathrani, Indra M.
RESUMO
A moderately halophilic methanogenic bacterium was enriched with trimethylamine and isolated from the sediment of a solar salt pond (total dissolved solids of pond water, 250 g/liter; pH 7.5). The isolate (strain SF1, DSM 3243) was an irregular coccus which stained gram negative, with a diameter of 1 μm and a thin monolayered cell wall. The organism grew singly, in pairs, and in irregular clumps. Colonies were tannish yellow, circular, with entire edges, and about 1 mm in diameter within 1 week. Only methylamines or methanol was used for growth and methanogenesis. Most rapid growth (doubling time, 10.2 h) occurred at a temperature of 37°C and a pH of 7.4. The optimum NaCl concentration was 2.1 M. Yeast extract or rumen fluid was required. The isolate was lysed by sodium dodecyl sulfate (0.1 g/liter) and was sensitive to chloramphenicol. The G+C content of the DNA was 41 (±1) mol%.
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