Organic Thiols as Organolithotrophic Substrates for Growth of Phototrophic Bacteria
AUTOR(ES)
Visscher, Pieter T.
RESUMO
Rhodopseudomonas sp. strain BB1, isolated from a coastal marine sediment, immediately metabolized mercaptomalate when grown on mercaptomalate. Sulfide was detected as an intermediate. Extracts of cells grown on mercaptomalate converted mercaptomalate or 3-mercaptopropionate to equimolar amounts of sulfide and either fumarate or acrylate, respectively. Rhodopseudomonas sp. strain BB1 gave higher growth yields on mercaptomalate than on sulfide or malate, consistent with metabolism of the carbon chain of the thiol and the liberated sulfide; i.e., the organic thiol was an organolithotrophic substrate. In contrast, Thiocapsa roseopersicina, isolated previously from a marine microbial mat, had similar growth yields on sulfide, mercaptomalate, or 3-mercaptopropionate, with fumarate or acrylate accumulation from the thiols. T. roseopersicina did not grow photoorganotrophically on fumarate or acrylate, and the thiols were only a source of sulfide for photolithoautotrophic growth.
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