Use of Reduced Sulfur Compounds by Beggiatoa spp.: Enzymology and Physiology of Marine and Freshwater Strains in Homogeneous and Gradient Cultures.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
K D Hagen, D C Nelson

Abstract

The marine Beggiatoa strains MS-81-6 and MS-81-1c are filamentous, gliding, colorless sulfur bacteria. They have traditionally been cultured in very limited quantities in sulfide gradient media, where they grow as chemolithoautotrophs, forming a thin horizontal plate well below the air-agar interface. There, the facultatively chemolithoautotrophic strain MS-81-6 quantitatively harvests the flux of sulfide diffusing from below and oxidizes it to sulfate by using oxygen as the electron acceptor. Only recently have these strains been cultivated in bulk in defined liquid media (K. D. Hagen and D. C. Nelson, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 62:947-953, 1996). In the current study, the obligately chemolithoautotrophic strain MS-81-1c was shown to have, despite much greater storage of elemental sulfur, an apparent Y(infH)(inf(inf2))(infS) twice that of MS-81-6 when the two strains were grown in identical sulfide-limited gradient media. While the basis of this difference in energy conservation has not been established, differences in sulfur oxidation enzymes were noted. Strain MS-81-1c appeared to be able to oxidize sulfite by using either the adenosine phosphosulfate (APS) pathway or a sulfite:acceptor oxidoreductase. APS pathway enzymes (AT...Continue Reading

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