Comparative Genomics of Members of the Genus Defluviicoccus With Insights Into Their Ecophysiological Importance.

ABSTRACT: Members of the genus Defluviicoccus occur often at high abundances in activated sludge wastewater treatment plants designed to remove phosphorus, where biomass is subjected to alternating anaerobic feed/aerobic famine conditions, believed to favor the proliferation of organisms like Ca. Accumulibacter and other phosphate-accumulating organisms (PAO), and Defluviicoccus. All have a capacity to assimilate readily metabolizable substrates and store them intracellularly during the anaerobic feed stage so that under the subsequent famine aerobic stage, these can be used to synthesize polyphosphate reserves by the PAO and glycogen by Defluviicoccus. Consequently, Defluviicoccus is described as a glycogen-accumulating organism or GAO. Because they share a simila

SUBMITTER: Bessarab I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9041414 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature