Characterization of sulfate-reducing bacteria isolated from oil-field waters

1996 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Tardy-Jacquenod ◽  
P. Caumette ◽  
R. Matheron ◽  
C. Lanau ◽  
O. Arnauld ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physicochemical Parameters ◽  
Sulfate Reducing Bacteria ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
Gulf Of Guinea ◽  
Sulfate Reducing ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Reducing Bacteria

The occurrence and metabolic capacities of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) were studied in 23 water samples taken from producing wells at 14 different sites. Oil fields in France, the North Sea, and the Gulf of Guinea were selected and classified according to physicochemical parameters (salinity ranging from 0.3 to 120 g∙L−1 and temperature between 29 and 85 °C). After the distribution of SRB within oil fields was studied, several strains of SRB were isolated and characterized metabolically. Twenty of the thirty-seven strains were not related to any known species. Most of the identified strains were members of the genera Desulfovibrio and Desulfotomaculum by molecular, morphological, and physiological properties.Key words: sulfate-reducing bacteria, oil-field ecology, metabolic identification, biodiversity.

Characterization of two dissimilatory sulfite reductases from sulfate-reducing bacteria

1988 ◽  
Vol 42 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 905-908
Author(s):  
B. H. Huynh ◽  
I. Moura ◽  
A. R. Lino ◽  
J. J. G. Moura ◽  
J. Legall
Keyword(s):  
Sulfate Reducing Bacteria ◽  
Sulfate Reducing ◽  
Reducing Bacteria

Characterization of the diversity of sulfate-reducing bacteria in soil and mining waste water environments by nucleic acid hybridization techniques

1994 ◽  
Vol 40 (11) ◽  
pp. 955-964 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita J. Telang ◽  
Gerrit Voordouw ◽  
Sara Ebert ◽  
Neili Sifeldeen ◽  
Julia M. Foght ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nucleic Acid ◽  
Bacterial Communities ◽  
Genomic Dna ◽  
Sulfate Reducing Bacteria ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Nucleic Acid Hybridization ◽  
Gene Probe ◽  
Sulfate Reducing ◽  
Reducing Bacteria ◽  
Field Production

Nucleic acid hybridization techniques were used to characterize the sulfate-reducing bacterial communities at seven waste water and two soil sites in Canada. Genomic DNA was obtained from liquid enrichment cultures of samples taken from these nine sites. The liquid enrichment protocol favored growth of the sulfate-reducing bacterial component of the communities at these sites. The genomic DNA preparations were analyzed with (i) a specific gene probe aimed at a single genus (Desulfovibrio), (ii) a general 16S rRNA gene probe aimed at all genera of sulfate-reducing bacteria and other bacteria, and (iii) whole genome probes aimed at specific bacteria. This three-pronged approach provided information on the sulfate-reducing bacterial community structures for the nine sites. These were compared with each other and with the sulfate-reducing bacterial communities of western Canadian oil field production waters, studied previously. It was found that there is considerable diversity in the sulfate-reducing bacterial community at each site. Most sulfate-reducing bacteria isolated from distinct sites are genomically different and differ also from sulfate-reducing bacteria found in oil field production waters.Key words: sulfate-reducing bacteria, genomic diversity, nucleic acid hybridization, microbial community.

Quantitative ecology of psychrophilic bacteria in an aquatic environment and characterization of heterotrophic bacteria from permanently cold sediments

1979 ◽  
Vol 25 (12) ◽  
pp. 1433-1442 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. G. Leduc ◽  
G. D. Ferroni
Keyword(s):  
Incubation Temperature ◽  
Heterotrophic Bacteria ◽  
Sulfate Reducing Bacteria ◽  
Gram Positive ◽  
Sulfate Reducing ◽  
Quantitative Ecology ◽  
Physiological Group ◽  
Sulfur Oxidizing ◽  
Reducing Bacteria

Aerobic heterotrophic bacteria, anaerobic heterotrophic bacteria, ammonifying bacteria, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria, and sulfate-reducing bacteria were quantitated in Fairbank Lake, an oligotrophic to mesotrophic lake with a permanently cold hypolimnion, as a function of depth in three seasons. Representatives of each physiological group were recovered at an incubation temperature of 2 °C and for all the physiological groups the 2 °C counts were usually higher than the 37 °C counts, although sulfate-reducing bacteria were not recoverable at an incubation temperature of 37 °C. In addition, the numbers of each physiological type were generally higher in the sediments than in the water column, except in the case of sulfate-reducing bacteria for which the counts were low and often below the detection limit. Aerobic heterotrophic bacteria usually outnumbered the other physiological groups surveyed, and winter minima were characteristic of some of the physiological groups. A relatively stable density of anaerobic heterotrophic bacteria, as a function of sediment depth, was observed when the incubation temperature was 2 °C. At 37 °C, these anaerobes were not detected, and this was true for sulfate-reducing bacteria at both temperatures.Heterotrophic bacterial isolates from the permanently cold sediments were examined with regard to Gram reaction, the obligate or facultative nature of anaerobes, ability to use ecologically important substrates, psychrophilic type, and temperature range for growth. Isolates recovered at 2 °C were predominantly Gram-negative bacilli, whereas isolates recovered at 37 °C were predominantly Gram-positive bacilli. The anaerobic isolates were mainly Gram-positive bacilli regardless of the isolation temperature, and most of those examined were obligately anaerobic. Many of the isolates tested were positive for gelatinase, chitinase, amylase, and lipase, but none was positive for cellulase. Most of the sediment isolates were facultatively psychrophilic and a considerable fraction of the 37 °C isolates were facultative psychrophiles.

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