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Appl Environ Microbiol
; 57(4): 976-80, 1991 Apr.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-16348474
RESUMO
Growth of the methanogenic bacterium Methanoplanus endosymbiosus is dependent on the presence of ruminal fluid. Ruminal fluid could be replaced by the eluate of a rumen-derived anaerobic digester. From the eluate of the digester, a growth-stimulatory component was purified and identified as p-cresol. Authentic p-cresol supported a half-maximal growth rate of the organism at 50 nM concentration.