Isolation of Clostridium from Yunnan-Tibet hot springs and description of Clostridium thermarum sp. nov. with lignocellulosic ethanol production.

Syst Appl Microbiol

State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, PR China. Electronic address:

Published: September 2020

Lignocellulose is considered a major source of renewable energy that serve as an alternative to the fossil fuels. Members of the genus Clostridium are some of the many microorganisms that have the ability to degrade lignocellulose efficiently to sugar, which can be further converted to biofuel. In this study, we isolated twelve Clostridium strains from hot spring samples of Yunnan and Tibet, of which isolates SYSU GA15002 and SYSU GA17076 showed low 16S rRNA gene sequence identity profiles to any of the validly named Clostridium strains (<94.0%). Studies using a polyphasic taxonomy approach concluded that the two isolates represent one novel species of the genus Clostridium, for which we propose the name Clostridium thermarum sp. nov., with SYSU GA15002 as the type strain of the species. Isolate SYSU GA15002 has an optimum growth temperature at 45°C. Fermentation of the substrates cellobiose, cellulose, xylan and untreated straw powder by this strain results in the production of ethanol, along with acetate and formate. The complete pathways for the conversion of cellulose and xylan to ethanol is also predicted from the genome of isolate SYSU GA15002, which revealed a single step conversion of lignocellulosic biomass through consolidated bioprocessing. This paper is a comprehensive study encompassing isolation, polyphasic taxonomy, lignocellulose biodegradation and the genomic information of Clostridium in Yunnan-Tibet hot springs.

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