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We isolated a strictly anaerobic bacterium, strain GRZCYSA, from a sludge digestor for its ability to ferment cysteate (2-amino-3-sulfopropionate). The organism also fermented the organosulfonates isethionate (2-hydroxyethanesulfonate) and aminomethanesulfonate, but taurine (2-aminoethanesulfonate) was not a substrate. Strain GRZCYSA, a gram-negative, oxidase-negative and catalase-positive vibrio that could reduce sulfate and contained desulfoviridin, was tentatively identified as Desulfovibrio sp. Utilization of cysteate as a substrate for fermentative growth led to the formation of four products identified as acetate, ammonia, and equimolar amounts of sulfide and sulfate. The fermentation was in balance. Some reactions involved in this novel process were detected in cell-free extracts in which ammonia and acetate were formed from cysteate.
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Received: 10 March 1997 / Accepted: 14 May 1997
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Laue, H., Denger, K. & Cook, A. Fermentation of cysteate by a sulfate-reducing bacterium. Arch Microbiol 168, 210–214 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002030050490
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