A Commensalism between the Sulfate-Reducing Bacterium Desulfovibrio desulfuricans and other Heterotrophic Bacteria

Sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ND132 as a model for understanding bacterial mercury methylation.

We propose the use of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ND132 as a model species for understanding the mechanism of microbial Hg methylation. Strain ND132 is an anaerobic dissimilatory sulfate-reducing bacterium (DSRB), isolated from estuarine mid-Chesapeake Bay sediments. It was chosen for study because of its exceptionally high rates of Hg methylation in culture and its metabolic similarity to the ...

Desulfovibrio Africans sp. n., a new dissimilatory sulfate-reducing bacterium.

Campbell, L. Leon (University of Illinois, Urbana), Mary A. Kasprzycki, and John R. Postgate. Desulfovibrio africanus sp. n., a new dissimilatory sulfate-reducing bacterium. J. Bacteriol. 92:1122-1127. 1966.-The strains Benghazi and Walvis Bay can be distinguished from 40 strains of Desulfovibrio and from D. gigas on the basis of morphological and immunological studies. Electron microscopy reve...

Preferential reduction of the thermodynamically less favorable electron acceptor, sulfate, by a nitrate-reducing strain of the sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio desulfuricans 27774.

Desulfovibrio desulfuricans strain 27774 is one of a relative small group of sulfate-reducing bacteria that can also grow with nitrate as an alternative electron acceptor, but how nitrate reduction is regulated in any sulfate-reducing bacterium is controversial. Strain 27774 grew more rapidly and to higher yields of biomass with nitrate than with sulfate or nitrite as the only electron acceptor...

Growth of desulfovibrio desulfuricans under heterotrophic and anaerobic conditions.

Alico, Robert K. (St. Bonaventure University, St. Bonaventure, N.Y.), and Francis W. Liegey. Growth of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans, under heterotrophic and anaerobic conditions. J. Bacteriol. 91:1112-1114. 1966.-Growth of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans was investigated under heterotrophic and anaerobic conditions. For initial growth to occur, it was found that the E(h) or redox potential must be a...

Classification of Desulfovibrio species, the nonsporulating sulfate-reducing bacteria.