Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-30-2010
Publication Title
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Department
Thayer School of Engineering
Abstract
The enrichment from nature of novel microbial communities with high cellulolytic activity is useful in the identification of novel organisms and novel functions that enhance the fundamental understanding of microbial cellulose degradation. In this work we identify predominant organisms in three cellulolytic enrichment cultures with thermophilic compost as an inoculum. Community structure based on 16S rRNA gene clone libraries featured extensive representation of clostridia from cluster III, with one cluster sharing as little as 73% sequence similarity with the closest known relative. In all, 14 new GHF48 gene sequences were added to the known diversity of 35 genes from cultured species.
DOI
10.1128/AEM.02689-09
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Izquierdo, Javier A.; Sizova, Maria V.; and Lynd, Lee R., "Diversity of Bacteria and Glycosyl Hydrolase Family 48 Genes in Cellulolytic Consortia Enriched from Thermophilic Biocompost" (2010). Dartmouth Scholarship. 484.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/484