[2] It is the type strain of genus Syntrophococcus[2] and it has an uncommon one-carbon metabolic pathway, forming acetate from formate as a product of sugar oxidation.
[2] The species name sucromutans is a combination of Neo-Latin sucro, referring to any sugar, and Latin mutans, meaning “changing”.
[4] The researchers were looking to find a bacterium that demethoxylated phenolic acids in the gut of ruminants, and this species was found to be the most prevalent prokaryote in the rumen to do such a process.
[2] This complex medium provides it with all the nutrients necessary for optimal growth such as a mixture of vitamins, minerals, and trace metals.
[6] It is even able to thrive without a ruminal fluid supplement if provided with phospholipids and fatty acids via a preparation such as 60% pure phosphatidylcholine.
This chemoorganotrophic anaerobe utilizes various sugars as electron donors to produce carbon dioxide and acetate through some rare metabolic processes.
Its electron acceptors were characterized by its discoverers Krumholz and Bryant, who used ultraviolet absorbance to measure caffeate disappearance, thin layer chromatography to identify benzenoids, and the phenol sulphuric method for determining carbohydrate content.
[6] The complex and diverse system within an animal’s ruminal biome provides a steady nutrient supply from the host’s breakdown of food and the processes of other microbes.
[8] Through utilizing a wide variety of bacterial and archaeal metabolic processes, biogas plants take biological wastes and change them into chemicals such as methane, carbon dioxide, water, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, and oxygen.
[8] PCR denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis is used to identify the 16S rRNA, and then the sequences are run through 16S rDNA reconstruction libraries.