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