Abstract
Growth experiments were performed with the purple nonsulfur bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus to test its ability to use aliphatic, methyl-substituted, and unsaturated alcohols, as well as di-alcohols, as carbon sources for growth. Both phototrophic and chemotrophic growth was observed on a wide variety of such alcohols. By contrast, secondary or tertiary alcohols, or primary alcohols containing an ethyl or propyl substituent, did not support growth. In addition, preculture history and serial subculturing were found to be important factors for obtaining reliable growth of R. capsulatus on alcohols. Collectively, these results suggest that the carbon nutritional diversity of Rhodobacter capsulatus is even greater than previously suspected and that besides metabolizing organic acids and fatty acids in nature, this species may also be a major consumer of alcohols.
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