Microbiology and Biochemistry of Strict Anaerobes Involved in Interspecies Hydrogen Transfer

1 — Plenary Lectures.- Molecular Hydrogen and Energy Conservation in Methanogenic and Acetogenic Bacteria.- Approaches to Gene Transfer in Methanogenic Bacteria.- The Hydrogenase of Methanococcus voltae : an Approach to the Biochemical and Genetic Analysis of an Archaebacterial Uptake Hydrogenase.- Hydrogenase Genes of Desulfovibrio.- The Hydrogenases of Sulfate — Reducing Bacteria: Physiological, Biochemical and Catalytic Aspects.- The F420-Reducing Hydrogenase of Methanospirillum hungatei Strain GP1.- Ecological Impact of Syntrophic Alcohol and Fatty Acid Oxidation.- Methanogenesis from Propionate in Sludge and Enrichment Systems.- 2 — Conferences.- Substitution of H2-Acceptor Organism with Catalytic Hydrogenation System in Methanogen Coupled Fermentations.- Hydrogen Transfer in Mixed Cultures of Anaerobic Bacteria and Fungi with Methanobrevibacter smithii.- Oxidative Propionate Formation by Anaerobic Bacteria.- Anaerobic Degradation of Furfural by Defined Mixed Cultures.- Energetics and Kinetics of Two Complementary Hydrogen Sink Reactions in a Defined 3-Chlorobenzoate Degrading Methanogenic Consortium.- Role of Hydrogen in the Growth of Mutualistic Methanogenic Cocultures.- Thermodynamical and Microbiological Evidence of Trophic Microniches for Propionate Degradation in a Methanogenic Sludge-Bed Reactor.- Dissimilation of Ethanol and Related Compounds by Desulfovibrio Strains.- Factors Affecting Hydrogen Uptake by Bacteria Growing in the Human Large Intestine.- Isolation and Characterization of an Anaerobic Bacterium Degrading 4-Chlorobutyrate.- Carbon and Energy Flow During Acetogenic Metabolism of Unicarbon and Multicarbon Substrates.- Enrichment of a Mesophilic, Syntrophic Bacterial Consortium Converting Acetate to Methane at High Ammonium Concentrations.- Electron Carrier Proteins in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Miyazaki.- Interaction Studies Between Redox Proteins, Cytochrome c3, Ferredoxin and Hydrogenase from Sulfate Reducing Bacterian.- Biochemistry of the Methylcoenzyme M Methylreductase System.- Energetics of the Growth of a New Syntrophic Benzoate Degrading Bacterium.- Syntrophic Propionate Oxidation.- Structural and Functional Properties of the Chromosomal Protein MC1 Isolated from Various Strains of Methanosarcinaceae.- An Archaebacterial In Vitro Transcription System.- A Survey of Recent Advances in Genetic Engineering in Bacteroides.- The Membrane-Bound Hydrogenase of the Photosynthetic Bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus.- Hydrogenase Mutants of Escherichia coli Defective in Nickel Uptake.- 3 — Poster Session.- Thermophilic Anaerobic Oxidation of Butyrate in Axenic Culture.- Eubacterium acidaminophilum, an Organism Able to Interact in Interspecies H-Transfer Reactions or to Transfer Electrons to Different Terminal Reductase Systems.- Immunological Properties of Desulfobacter.- Fermentation Properties of Four Strictly Anaerobic Rumen Fungal Species: H2-Producing Microorganisms.- Growth of Bacteroides xylanolyticus in the Presence and Absence of a Methanogen.- Hydrogen Metabolism by Termite Gut Microbes.- Hydrogen and Methanogenesis in Rumen Liquor and in Rumen Ciliate/Methanogen Cocultures.- Hydrogen Production by Rumen Ciliate Protozoa.- Methanogenic Bacteria and their Activity in a Subsurface Reservoir of Town Gas.- Study of the Transition of Activated Sludges to an Adapted Anaerobic Inoculum for Anaerobic Digestion.- Effects of Elevated Hydrogen Partial Pressures on Anaerobic Treatment of Carbohydrate.- Hydrogen Production in Anaerobic Biofilms.- Effects of Various Headspace Gases on the Production of Volatile Fatty Acids by Rumen Ciliate Protozoa.- Mass Transfer of Hydrogen in a Culture of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicun Strain Hveragerdi.- Physiology and Metabolic Features of a Novel Methanogenic Isolate.- Thermophilic Anaerobic Oxidation of Ethanol.- Efficiency of Bacterial Protein Synthesis and Methanogenesis during Anaerobic Degradation.- Trace Methane in some Proteolytic Nonglucidolytic Clostridia: the Role of Some S-Methyl and N-Methyl Compounds.- Inhibition Kinetics by H2, Acetate and Propionate in Methanogenesis from Propionate in a Mixed Culture.- Hydrogen Content in Biogas as a State Indicator of Methanogenesis from Wastes.- Interspecies Transport of Hydrogen in Thermophilic Anaerobic Cellulose Decomposition.- The Participation of Lithotrophic Homoacetogenic Bacteria and Methanothrix in Thermophilic Anaerobic Ethanol Degradation with Methane Formation.- Characterization of a Sulfate Reducing Bacterium Isolated from a Hypersaline African Lake.- Isolation and Characterization of an Ethanol-Degrading Anaerobe from Methanogenic Granular Sludge.- The Role of Fe(III) Reduction in Anaerobic Processes.- Glycerol Degradation by Desulfovibrio sp. in Pure Culture and in Coculture with Methanospirillum hungatei.- 1,2- and 1,3-Propanediol Degradation by Desulfovibrio alcoholovorans sp. nov., in Pure Culture or through H2 Interspecies Transfer.- Long Chain Fatty Acid Degradation by a Mesophilic Syntrophic Coculture Isolated from Margin.- Effect of Sulfide and Reactor Operational Parameters on Sulfate Reducing Bacteria.- Hydrogen Transfer between Neocallimastix frontalis and Selenomonas ruminantium Grown in Mixed Culture.- Phylogenetic Analysis of Methanogenic Bacteria.- An Acetate Decomposing Sulphidogenic Syntrophic Association.- Anaerobic Digestion of Proteins, Peptides and Amino Acids.- Isolation of Syntrophic Bacteria on Metabolic Intermediates.- Isolation of Propionate-Using, Sulfate-Reducing Bacterium.- Characterization of a Sulfate-Reducing Bacterium Isolated from the Gut of a Tropical Soil Termite.- Relationship between Methanogenesis and Sulfate Reduction in Anaerobic Digestion of Municipal Sewage Sludge.- The Effect of Temperature on Butyrate Degradation.- Thermophilic Degradation of Butyrate, Propionate and Acetate in Granular Sludge.- Differential Effects of Sodium and Carbon Monoxide on the H2- and Glucose- Dependent Growth of the Thermophilic Acetogen Acetogenium kivui.- One-Carbon Metabolism by the Rumen Acetogen Syntrophococcus sucromutans.- Structural and Functional Properties of a Ferredoxin Isolated from Methanococcus thermolithotrophicus.- Desulfovibrio gigas Hydrogenase: Crystallographic Studies.- Kinetic Studies of Electron Transfer between Hydrogenase and Cytochrome c3 by Electrochemistry.- Hydrogenase in Desulfobacter.- ATP-Synthesis Coupled to the Terminal Step of Methanogenesis.- Expression of an Eubacterial Puromycin Resistance Gene in the Archaebacterium Methanococcus voltae.- Cloning and Sequencing the Locus Encoding for the Large and Small Subunit Genes of the Periplasmic (NiFeS) Hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio fructosovorans.- Authors Index.