Homoacetogenic Fermentation of Cellulose by a Coculture of Clostridium thermocellum and Acetogenium kivui.
Interrelationships between methanogens and fermentative or hydrolytic bacteria are well documented; however, such cocultures do not allow a complete fermentation shift to a peculiar metabolite. We describe here a new stable association between Clostridium thermocellum and Acetogenium kivui which converts 1 mol of cellulose (anhydroglucose equivalent) into 2.7 mol of acetate.
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Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Station de Technologie Alimentaire, 59651 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France.
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