Interspecific hydrogen transfer during methanol degradation by Sporomusa acidovorans and hydrogenophilic anaerobes

Abstract

In the presence of active hydrogenophilic sulfate-reducing bacteria, the homoacetogenic bacterium Sporomusa acidovorans did not produce acetate during methanol degradation. H2S and presumably CO2 were the only end products. Since the sulfate-reducer did not degrade methnol or acetate, the sulfidogenesis from methanol was related to a complete interspecific hydrogen transfer between both species.