Desulfonatronobacter acetoxydans sp. nov.,: a first acetate-oxidizing, extremely salt-tolerant alkaliphilic SRB from a hypersaline soda lake.

Recent intensive microbiological investigation of sulfidogenesis in soda lakes did not result in isolation of any pure cultures of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) able to directly oxidize acetate. The sulfate-dependent acetate oxidation at haloalkaline conditions has, so far, been only shown in two syntrophic associations of novel Syntrophobacteraceae members and haloalkaliphilic hydrogenotrophic SRB. In the course of investigation of one of them, obtained from a hypersaline soda lake in South-Western Siberia, a minor component was observed showing a close relation to Desulfonatronobacter acidivorans--a "complete oxidizing" SRB from soda lakes.

[Advenella kashmirensis subsp. methylica PK1, a facultative methylotroph from carex rhizosphere].

A strain (PK1) of facultative methylobacteria growing on methanol as a carbon and energy source was isolated from carex rhizosphere (Pamukkale National Park, Turkey). The cells were nonmotile gram-negative rods propagating by binary fission. The organism was a strict anaerobe, oxidase- and catalase-positive.

[Comparative characteristics of biosynthesis of polyhydroxybutyrate from methanol by Methylobacteria extorquens G10 and Methyloligella halotolerans C2].

The biosynthesis of polyhydroxybutyrate by Methylobacteria extorquens G10 and Methyloligella halotolerans C2 via the serine pathway of C1 metabolism was comparatively studied. Nitrogen limitation stimulated synthesis of the biopolymer in both cultures. It was shown that, despite the similarity of the pathways of methanol metabolism and those of polyhydroxybutyrate biosynthesis, the methylobacteria synthesized polymers of different molecular weights.

Methylobrevis pamukkalensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a halotolerant restricted facultative methylotroph isolated from saline water.

An aerobic halotolerant restricted facultatively methylotrophic bacterium was isolated from a saline hot spring in Pamukkale, Turkey, and designated strain PK2(T). The cells of this strain were Gram-stain-negative, asporogenous, motile short rods multiplying by binary fission. They utilized methanol, methylamine and mannitol as carbon and energy sources.