| HOME | HELP | FEEDBACK | SUBSCRIPTIONS | ARCHIVE | SEARCH | TABLE OF CONTENTS |
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|||||||||
1 Department of Microbiology and Center for Biological Resource Recovery, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602
2 Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
* Corresponding author. Phone: (706) 542-2651. Fax: (706) 542-2674. Electronic mail address: jwiegel{at}uga.cc.uga.edu.
ABSTRACT
Clostridium hydroxybenzoicum JW/Z-1T (= ATCC 51151 = DSM 7310)) (T = type strain), isolated from freshwater pond sediment, is a nonmotile, gram type-positive, spore-forming, amino acid-utilizing, anaerobic rod. This bacterium produces two inducible enzymes that catalyze the decarboxylation of para-hydroxybenzoates. The phenols produced are not utilized. C. hydroxybenzoicum requires yeast extract for growth. Sugars are not utilized. Sodium ions and acetic acid stimulate growth. The optimal temperature and optimal pH for growth are 33 to 34°C and 7.2 to 8.2, respectively. The DNA base composition of the type strain is 35.5 mol% guanine plus cytosine, whereas the DNA base compositions of the type strains of Clostridium sticklandii and Clostridium aminovalericum are 33 and 33.5 mol% guanine plus cytosine, respectively, as determined by a chemical method. 16S rRNA sequence analysis groups strain JW/Z-1T most closely with Clostridium purinolyticum and Clostridium acidiurici (10.6 and 11 inferred changes per 100 bases, respectively). However, C. hydroxybenzoicum does not utilize uric acid, hypoxanthine, xanthine, adenine, or guanine. The cell wall type is Al
(L-Lys direct).
Present address: EPA Environmental Research Laboratory, 960 College Station Road, Athens, GA 30605-2720. This article has been cited by other articles:
|
|
 |
|
  Y.-L. Qiu, S. Hanada, A. Ohashi, H. Harada, Y. Kamagata, and Y. Sekiguchi Syntrophorhabdus aromaticivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., the First Cultured Anaerobe Capable of Degrading Phenol to Acetate in Obligate Syntrophic Associations with a Hydrogenotrophic Methanogen Appl. Envir. Microbiol., April 1, 2008; 74(7): 2051 - 2058. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 S. Takii, S. Hanada, H. Tamaki, Y. Ueno, Y. Sekiguchi, A. Ibe, and K. Matsuura Dethiosulfatibacter aminovorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel thiosulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from coastal marine sediment via sulfate-reducing enrichment with Casamino acids Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, October 1, 2007; 57(10): 2320 - 2326. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
P. Juteau, V. Cote, M.-F. Duckett, R. Beaudet, F. Lepine, R. Villemur, and J.-G. Bisaillon Cryptanaerobacter phenolicus gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobe that transforms phenol into benzoate via 4-hydroxybenzoate Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, January 1, 2005; 55(1): 245 - 250. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
Y. Suzuki, S. D. Kelly, K. M. Kemner, and J. F. Banfield Microbial Populations Stimulated for Hexavalent Uranium Reduction in Uranium Mine Sediment Appl. Envir. Microbiol., March 1, 2003; 69(3): 1337 - 1346. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
N. Valkova, F. Lépine, L. Valeanu, M. Dupont, L. Labrie, J.-G. Bisaillon, R. Beaudet, F. Shareck, and R. Villemur Hydrolysis of 4-Hydroxybenzoic Acid Esters (Parabens) and Their Aerobic Transformation into Phenol by the Resistant Enterobacter cloacae Strain EM Appl. Envir. Microbiol., June 1, 2001; 67(6): 2404 - 2409. [Abstract] [Full Text]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 J. Huang, 2. He, and J. Wiegel Cloning, Characterization, and Expression of a Novel Gene Encoding a Reversible 4-Hydroxybenzoate Decarboxylase from Clostridium hydroxybenzoicum J. Bacteriol., August 15, 1999; 181(16): 5119 - 5122. [Abstract] [Full Text]
|
|
|
|
|
|
F. J. M. Verhagen, H. J. Swarts, J. B. P. A. Wijnberg, and J. A. Field Biotransformation of the Major Fungal Metabolite 3,5-Dichloro- p-Anisyl Alcohol under Anaerobic Conditions and Its Role in Formation of Bis(3,5-Dichloro-4-Hydroxyphenyl)methane Appl. Envir. Microbiol., September 1, 1998; 64(9): 3225 - 3231. [Abstract] [Full Text]
|
|
|
|
|
|
P. M. van Schie and L. Y. Young Isolation and Characterization of Phenol-Degrading Denitrifying Bacteria Appl. Envir. Microbiol., July 1, 1998; 64(7): 2432 - 2438. [Abstract] [Full Text]
|
|
| HOME | HELP | FEEDBACK | SUBSCRIPTIONS | ARCHIVE | SEARCH | TABLE OF CONTENTS |
| INT J SYST EVOL MICROBIOL | MICROBIOLOGY | J GEN VIROL |
| J MED MICROBIOL | ALL SGM JOURNALS | |
