Anaerobic Degradation of Propionate by a Mesophilic Acetogenic Bacterium in Coculture and Triculture with Different Methanogens

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Dong, Xiuzhu

RESUMO

A mesophilic acetogenic bacterium (MPOB) oxidized propionate to acetate and CO2 in cocultures with the formate- and hydrogen-utilizing methanogens Methanospirillum hungatei and Methanobacterium formicicum. Propionate oxidation did not occur in cocultures with two Methanobrevibacter strains, which grew only with hydrogen. Tricultures consisting of MPOB, one of the Methanobrevibacter strains, and organisms which are able to convert formate into H2 plus CO2 (Desulfovibrio strain G11 or the homoacetogenic bacterium EE121) also degraded propionate. The MPOB, in the absence of methanogens, was able to couple propionate conversion to fumarate reduction. This propionate conversion was inhibited by hydrogen and by formate. Formate and hydrogen blocked the energetically unfavorable succinate oxidation to fumarate involved in propionate catabolism. Low formate and hydrogen concentrations are required for the syntrophic degradation of propionate by MPOB. In triculture with Methanospirillum hungatei and the aceticlastic Methanothrix soehngenii, propionate was degraded faster than in biculture with Methanospirillum hungatei, indicating that low acetate concentrations are favorable for propionate oxidation as well.

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