Substrate Utilization by an Oxalate-Consuming Spirillum Species in Relation to Its Growth in Ozonated Water
AUTOR(ES)
van der Kooij, D.
RESUMO
The nutritional versatility of a vibrio-shaped, oxalate-utilizing isolate, strain NOX, obtained from tap water supplied with low concentrations of formate, glyoxylate, and oxalate, was determined by growth experiments with low-molecular-weight carbon compounds at high (grams per liter) and very low (micrograms per liter) concentrations. The organism, which was identified as a Spirillum species, appeared to be specialized in the utilization of a number of carboxylic acids. Yields of 2.9 × 106 CFU/μg of oxalate C and 1.2 × 107 CFU/μg of acetate C were obtained from growth experiments in tap water supplied with various low amounts of either oxalate or acetate. A substrate saturation constant of 0.64 μM oxalate was calculated for strain NOX from the relationship between growth rate and concentration of added oxalate. Maximum colony counts of strain NOX grown in ozonated water (dosages of 2.0 to 3.2 mg of O3 per liter) were 15 to 20 times larger than the maximum colony counts of strain NOX grown in water before ozonation. Based on the nutritional requirements of strain NOX, it was concluded that carboxylic acids were produced by ozonation. Oxalate concentrations were calculated from the maximum colony counts of strain NOX grown in samples of ozonated water in which a non-oxalate-utilizing strain of Pseudomonas fluorescens had already reached maximum growth. The oxalate concentrations obtained by this procedure ranged from 130 to 220 μg of C/liter.
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