Aerotolerant Thiosulfate-Reducing Bacterium Fusibacter sp. Strain WBS Isolated from Littoral Bottom Sediments of the White Sea-Biochemical and Genome Analysis.

ABSTRACT: The strain WBS, an anaerobic, psychro- and halotolerant bacterium belonging to the genus Fusibacter, was isolated from the littoral bottom sediments of the White Sea, Arctic, Russia. Fusibacter bizertensis WBS grew at temperatures between 8 and 32 °C (optimum growth at 18-20 °C), pH between 5.2 and 8.3 (optimum growth at pH 7.2), and at NaCl concentrations between 0 and 70 g L^-1 (optimum growth at 32 g L^-1). It reduced sulfate, thiosulfate, and elemental sulfur into sulfide, and, probably, the strain is able to disproportionate thiosulfate. The strain also utilized a wide range of substrates as it is a chemoorganotrophic bacterium. Analysis of the sequenced genome revealed genes for all enzymes involved in the Embden-Meyerhof glycolytic pathway as well a

SUBMITTER: Brioukhanov AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10386464 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature