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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 2003, p. 6321-6326, Vol. 69, No. 10
0099-2240/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.10.6321-6326.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Formate-Dependent Growth and Homoacetogenic Fermentation by a Bacterium from Human Feces: Description of Bryantella formatexigens gen. nov., sp. nov.

Meyer J. Wolin,1* Terry L. Miller,1 Matthew D. Collins,2 and Paul A. Lawson2

Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York 12201-0509,1 School of Food Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AP, United Kingdom2

Received 14 March 2003/ Accepted 17 July 2003

Formate stimulates growth of a new bacterium from human feces. With high formate, it ferments glucose to acetate via the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway. The original isolate fermented vegetable cellulose and carboxymethylcellulose, but it lost this ability after storage at -76°C. 16S rRNA gene sequencing identifies it as a distinct line within the Clostridium coccoides supra-generic rRNA grouping. We propose naming it Bryantella formatexigens gen. nov., sp. nov.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: 8 Wisconsin Ave., Delmar, NY 12054. Phone: (518) 439-6969. Fax: (518) 474-8590. E-mail: wolin{at}yahoo.com.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 2003, p. 6321-6326, Vol. 69, No. 10
0099-2240/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.10.6321-6326.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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