Sulfoquinovose (SQ) is a major organosulfonate in nature, and thus plays an important role in the biogeochemical sulfur and carbon cycles. We identified a bacterial anaerobic consortium, enriched from lake Konstanz, which degraded SQ to isethionate as intermediate and further into acetate and sulfid...
ORGANISM(S): Eubacteriaceae bacterium PEH A freshwater sediment metagenome
