Cross Index | Syntrophospora bryantii |
SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Endospore formers |
Compare | Amphibacillus
xylans, Bacillus,
Clostridium,
Desulfotomaculum,
Oscillospira
guilliermondii, Sporohalobacter,
Sporolactobacillus
insulinus, Sporosarcina,
Sulfidobacillus
thermosulfooxidans, Syntrophospora bryantii Other Spore Formers: Pasteuria Thermoactinomyces, Sporomusa, Sarcina Sporichthya polymorpha "Sporospirillum" Sporocytophaga myxococcoides |
Contrast | Archaea, |
Subset |
Morphology | Syntrophospora bryantii |
CELLULAR |
Staining | Gram reaction is variable, cell wall is Gram positive |
Morphology | The endospore forming bacteria are a diverse group of microbes that are considered as a group for convenience. cells are rod shaped |
Motility | |
Specialized structures | endospores are oval and terminal and swell the cell |
Division |
COLONIAL |
Solid surface |
Liquid |
Growth Parameters | Syntrophospora bryantii |
PHYSIOLOGICAL |
Tropism | chemoorganotrophic |
Oxygen | strict anaerobe |
pH | |
Temperature | optimum 30 oC |
Requirements | It uses saturated fatty acids such as butyrate or longer chained, for growth Some strains can grow on crotonate |
Products | Fatty acids are beta oxidized to acetate and H2 or together with odd numbered straight chain fatty acids to acetate, proprionate, annd H2 in ssyntropic association with H2 scavenging anaerobes |
Enzymes | |
Unique features | Sulfate and nitrate are not reduced |
ENVIRONMENTAL |
Habitat | aquatic and marine sediments |
Lifestyle | |
Pathogenicity |
Distribution |
Genome | Syntrophospora bryantii |
G+C Mol % |
Syntrophospora bryantii was originally called Clostridium bryantii but the new genus was created because Syntrophospora differs considerably from the other species of Clostridium in its 16S rRNA sequence |
Reference | Syntrophospora bryantii |
First citation | Zhao et al 1990 IJSB 40:40-44 |
Bergey's Determinative | p 561 |
References |