Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Energy metabolism and phylogenetic diversity of sulphate-reducing bacteria
- 2 Molecular strategies for studies of natural populations of sulphate-reducing microorganisms
- 3 Functional genomics of sulphate-reducing prokaryotes
- 4 Evaluation of stress response in sulphate-reducing bacteria through genome analysis
- 5 Response of sulphate-reducing bacteria to oxygen
- 6 Biochemical, proteomic and genetic characterization of oxygen survival mechanisms in sulphate-reducing bacteria of the genus Desulfovibrio
- 7 Biochemical, genetic and genomic characterization of anaerobic electron transport pathways in sulphate-reducing Delta proteobacteria
- 8 Dissimilatory nitrate and nitrite ammonification by sulphate-reducing eubacteria
- 9 Anaerobic degradation of hydrocarbons with sulphate as electron acceptor
- 10 Sulphate-reducing bacteria from oil field environments and deep-sea hydrothermal vents
- 11 The sub-seafloor biosphere and sulphate-reducing prokaryotes: their presence and significance
- 12 Ecophysiology of sulphate-reducing bacteria in environmental biofilms
- 13 Bioprocess engineering of sulphate reduction for environmental technology
- 14 Bioremediation of metals and metalloids by precipitation and cellular binding
- 15 Enzymatic and genomic studies on the reduction of mercury and selected metallic oxyanions by sulphate-reducing bacteria
- 16 Sulphate-reducing bacteria and their role in corrosion of ferrous materials
- 17 Anaerobic metabolism of nitroaromatic compounds and bioremediation of explosives by sulphate-reducing bacteria
- 18 Sulphate-reducing bacteria and the human large intestine
- Index
- Plate section
- References
10 - Sulphate-reducing bacteria from oil field environments and deep-sea hydrothermal vents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Energy metabolism and phylogenetic diversity of sulphate-reducing bacteria
- 2 Molecular strategies for studies of natural populations of sulphate-reducing microorganisms
- 3 Functional genomics of sulphate-reducing prokaryotes
- 4 Evaluation of stress response in sulphate-reducing bacteria through genome analysis
- 5 Response of sulphate-reducing bacteria to oxygen
- 6 Biochemical, proteomic and genetic characterization of oxygen survival mechanisms in sulphate-reducing bacteria of the genus Desulfovibrio
- 7 Biochemical, genetic and genomic characterization of anaerobic electron transport pathways in sulphate-reducing Delta proteobacteria
- 8 Dissimilatory nitrate and nitrite ammonification by sulphate-reducing eubacteria
- 9 Anaerobic degradation of hydrocarbons with sulphate as electron acceptor
- 10 Sulphate-reducing bacteria from oil field environments and deep-sea hydrothermal vents
- 11 The sub-seafloor biosphere and sulphate-reducing prokaryotes: their presence and significance
- 12 Ecophysiology of sulphate-reducing bacteria in environmental biofilms
- 13 Bioprocess engineering of sulphate reduction for environmental technology
- 14 Bioremediation of metals and metalloids by precipitation and cellular binding
- 15 Enzymatic and genomic studies on the reduction of mercury and selected metallic oxyanions by sulphate-reducing bacteria
- 16 Sulphate-reducing bacteria and their role in corrosion of ferrous materials
- 17 Anaerobic metabolism of nitroaromatic compounds and bioremediation of explosives by sulphate-reducing bacteria
- 18 Sulphate-reducing bacteria and the human large intestine
- Index
- Plate section
- References
Summary
INTRODUCTION
Early in 1886, it was demonstrated that the addition of gypsum (CaSO4ċ2H2O) to anaerobic mud enrichments containing cellulose led to the production of the malodorous gas, hydrogen sulphide (Hoppe-Seyler, 1886). Soon after, Beijerinck first provided evidence of a microorganism reducing sulphate into sulphide, named as Spirillum desulphuricans (Beijerinck, 1895), which was the first sulphate-reducing bacterium (SRB) isolated in the world. As pointed out by Voordouw (1995), Beijerinck had already addressed, at the end of the nineteenth century, questions to the scientific community with regard to the metabolism and ecological distribution of the SRB, which are still nowadays themes of debate. SRB were first believed to use a limited range of substrates as energy sources (e.g. hydrogen, lactate, ethanol, etc. …), but recent biochemical and microbiological studies have greatly extended the range of electron donors and electron acceptors known to be used by SRB (Fauque et al., 1991; Widdel, 1988). Indeed the latter may have an autotrophic, lithoautotrophic, heterotrophic, or respiration type of life under anaerobiosis and their possible microaerophilic nature has been discussed in the literature (Fauque and Ollivier, 2004). Besides their common ability to use sulphate as terminal electron acceptor, many of them were shown to utilize other mineral sulphur compounds, including elemental sulphur, thiosulphate, sulphite, polythionates and polysulphide (Le Faou et al., 1990). In addition, SRB have been demonstrated to reduce a wide range of heavy metals and radionuclides including Fe(III), and U(VI).
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- Sulphate-Reducing BacteriaEnvironmental and Engineered Systems, pp. 305 - 328Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007
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