Microbiology and Biochemistry of Strict Anaerobes Involved in Interspecies Hydrogen Transfer

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Molecular Hydrogen and Energy Conservation in Methanogenic and Acetogenic Bacteria....Pages 3-10
Approaches to Gene Transfer in Methanogenic Bacteria....Pages 11-23
The Hydrogenase Methanococcus Voltae :An Approach to the Biochemical and Genetic Analysis of an Archaebacterial Uptake Hydrogenase....Pages 25-36
Hydrogenase Genes in Desulfovibrio ....Pages 37-51
The Hydrogenases of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria : Physiological, Biochemical and Catalytic Aspects....Pages 53-73
The F 420 -Reducing Hydrogenase of Methanospirillum hungatei Srain GPl....Pages 75-85
Ecological Impact of Syntrophic Alcohol and Fatty Acid Oxidation....Pages 87-98
Methanogenesis from Propionate in Sludge and Enrichment Systems....Pages 99-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Substitution of H 2 -Acceptor Organism with Catalytic Hydrogenation System in Methanogen Coupled Fermentations....Pages 115-119
Hydrogen Transfer in Mixed Cultures of Anaerobic Bacteria and Fungi with Methanobrevibacter Smithii....Pages 121-131
Oxidative Propionate Formation by Anaerobic Bacteria....Pages 133-139
Anaerobic Degradation of Furfural by Defined Mixed Cultures....Pages 141-149
Energetics and Kinetics of Two Complementary Hydrogen Sink Reactions in a Defined 3-Chlorobenzoate Degrading Methanogenic Consortium....Pages 151-160
Role of Hydrogen in the Growth of Mutualistic Methanogenic Cocultures....Pages 161-171
Thermodynamical and Microbiological Evidence of Trophic Microniches for Propionate Degradation in a Methanogenic Sludge-Bed Reactor....Pages 173-183
Dissimilation of Ethanol and Related Compounds by Desulfovibrio Strains....Pages 185-190
Factors Affecting Hydrogen Uptake by Bacteria Growing in the Human Large Intestine....Pages 191-202
Isolation and Characterization of an Anaerobic Bacterium Degrading 4—Chlorobutyrate....Pages 203-212
Carbon and Energy Flow during Acetogenic Metabolism of Unicarbon and Multicarbon Substrates....Pages 213-223
Enrichment of A Mesophilic, Syntrophic Bacterial Consortium Converting Acetate to Methane at High Ammonium Concentrations....Pages 225-234
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Electron Carrier Proteins in Desulfovibrio Vulgaris Miyazaki....Pages 237-248
Interaction Studies Between Redox Proteins, Cytochrome C 3 , Ferredoxin and Hydrogenase from Sulfate Reducing Bacteria....Pages 249-258
Biochemistry of the Methylcoenzyme M Methylreductase System....Pages 259-267
Energetics of the Growth of a New Syntrophic Benzoate Degrading Bacterium....Pages 269-280
Syntrophic Propionate Oxidation....Pages 281-289
Structural and Functional Properties of the Chromosomal Protein MCl Isolated from Various Strains of Methanosarcinaceae....Pages 291-301
An Archaebacterial in Vitro Transcription System....Pages 305-312
A Survey of Recent Advances in Genetic Engineering in Bacteroides ....Pages 313-327
The Membrane-Bound Hydrogenase of the Photosynthetic Bacterium Rhodobacter Capsulatus ....Pages 329-336
Hydrogenase Mutants of Escherichia coli Defective in Nickel Uptake....Pages 337-348
Front Matter....Pages 349-349
Thermophilic Anaerobic Oxidation of Butyrate in Axenic Culture....Pages 351-353
Eubacterium Acidaminophilum, an Organism Able to Interact in Interspecies H-Transfer Reactions or to Transfer Electrons to Different Terminal Reductase Systems....Pages 355-357
Immunological Properties of Desulfobacter ....Pages 359-360
Fermentation Properties of Four Strictly Anaerobic Rumen Fungal Species: H2-Producing Microorganisms....Pages 361-364
Growth of Bacteroides Xylanolyticus in the Presence and Absence of a Methanogen....Pages 365-368
Hydrogen Metabolism by Termite Gut Microbes....Pages 369-371
Hydrogen and Methanogenesis in Rumen Liquor and in Rumen Ciliate/Methanogen Cocultures....Pages 373-376
Hydrogen Production by Rumen Ciliate Protozoa....Pages 377-379
Methanogenic Bacteria and their Activity in a Subsurface Reservoir of Town Gas....Pages 381-383
Study of the Transition of Activated Sludges to an Adapted Anaerobic Inoculum for Anaerobic Digestion....Pages 385-386
Front Matter....Pages 349-349
Effects of Elevated Hydrogen Partial Pressures on Anaerobic Treatment of Carbohydrate....Pages 387-390
Hydrogen Production in Anaerobic Biofilms....Pages 391-393
Effects of Various Headspace Gases on the Production of Volatile Fatty Acids....Pages 395-397
Mass Transfer of Hydrogen in a Culture of Methanobacterium Thermoautotrophicum Strain Hveragerdi....Pages 399-401
Physiology and Metabolic Features of a Novel Methanogenic Isolate....Pages 403-405
Thermophilic Anaerobic Oxidation of Ethanol....Pages 407-410
Efficiency of Bacterial Protein Synthesis and Methanogenesis During Anaerobic Degradation....Pages 411-413
Trace Methane in Some Proteolytic Nonglucidolytic Clostridia: The Role of Some S-Methyl and N-Methyl Compounds....Pages 415-417
Inhibition Kinetics by H 2 , Acetate and Propionate in Methanogenesis from Propionate in a Mixed Culture....Pages 419-421
Hydrogen Content in Biogas as a State Indicator of Methanogenesis from Wastes....Pages 423-425
Interspecies Transport of Hydrogen in Thermophilic Anaerobic Cellulose Decomposition....Pages 427-429
Characterization of a Sulfate Reducing Bacterium Isolated from a Hypersaline African Lake....Pages 431-433
Isolation and Characterization of an Ethanol-Degrading Anaerobe from Methanogenic Granular Sludge....Pages 435-437
The Role of Fe(III) Reduction in Anaerobic Processes....Pages 439-442
Glycerol Degradation by Desulfovibrio SP. in Pure Culture and in Coculture with Methanospirillum Hungatei ....Pages 443-445
1, 2 - and 1, 3 - Propanediol Degradation by Desulfovibrio Alcoholovorans SP. Nov., in Pure Culture or Through H 2 Interspecies Transfer....Pages 447-449
Long Chain Fatty Acid Degradation by a Mesophilic Syntrophic Coculture Isolated from Margin....Pages 451-453
Effect of Sulfide and Reactor Operational Parameters on Sulfate Reducing Bacteria....Pages 455-457
Hydrogen Transfer Between Neocallimastix Frontalis and Selenomonas Ruminantium Grown in Mixed Culture....Pages 459-461
Front Matter....Pages 463-465
Phylogenetic Analysis of Methanogenic Bacteria....Pages 349-349
An Acetate - Decomposing Sulphidogenic Syntrophic Association....Pages 467-467
Anaerobic Digestion of Proteins, Peptides and Amino Acids....Pages 469-470
Isolation of Syntrophic Bacteria on Metabolic Intermediates....Pages 471-472
Isolation of a Propionate-Using, Sulfate-Reducing Bacterium....Pages 473-476
Characterization of a Sulfate - Reducing Bacterium Isolated from the Gut of a Tropical Soil Termite....Pages 477-479
Relationship Between Methanogenesis and Sulfate Reduction in Anaerobic Digestion of Municipal Sewage Sludge....Pages 481-483
The Effect of Temperature on Butyrate Degradation....Pages 485-487
Thermophilic Degradation of Butyrate, Propionate and Acetate in Granular Sludge....Pages 489-491
Differential Effects of Sodium and Carbon Monoxide on the H2-and Glucose-Dependent Growth of the Thermophilic Acetogen Acetogenium Kivui ....Pages 493-495
One-Carbon Metabolism by the Rumen Acetogen Syntrophococcus Sucromutans ....Pages 497-499
Structural and Functional Properties of a Ferredoxin Isolated from Methanococcus thermolithotrophicus ....Pages 503-506
 Desulfovibrio Gigas Hydrogenase : Crystallographic Studies....Pages 507-509
Kinetic studies of electron transfer between hydrogenase and cytochrome c 3 by electrochemistry....Pages 511-513
Hydrogenase in Desulfobacter ....Pages 515-517
ATP-Synthesis Coupled to the Terminal Step of Methanogenesis....Pages 519-520
Expression of an Eubacterial Puromycin Resistance Gene in the Archaebacterium Methanococcus Voltae ....Pages 521-523
Cloning and Sequencing the Locus Encoding for the Large and Small Subunit Genes of the Periplasmic [Ni FeS] Hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio Fructosovorans ....Pages 527-529
Back Matter....Pages 531-534
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