Journal
EXTREMOPHILES
Volume 15, Issue 3, Pages 391-401Publisher
SPRINGER TOKYO
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-011-0370-7
Keywords
Soda lakes; Haloalkaliphilic; Sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB); Desulfonatronum; Desulfonatronovibrio; Dismutation
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- RFBR [10-04-00152]
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Soda lake sediments usually contain high concentrations of sulfide indicating active sulfate reduction. Monitoring of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) in soda lakes demonstrated a dominance of two groups of culturable SRB belonging to the order Desulfovibrionales specialized in utilization of inorganic electron donors, such as formate, H(2) and thiosulfate. The most interesting physiological trait of the novel haloalkaliphilic SRB isolates was their ability to grow lithotrophically by dismutation of thiosulfate and sulfite. All isolates were obligately alkaliphilic with a pH optimum at 9.5-10 and moderately salt tolerant. Among the fifteen newly isolated strains, four belonged to the genus Desulfonatronum and the others to the genus Desulfonatronovibrio. None of the isolates were closely related to previously described species of these genera. On the basis of phylogenetic, genotypic and phenotypic characterization of the novel soda lake SRB isolates, two novel species each in the genera Desulfonatronum and Desulfonatronovibrio are proposed.
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