Casimicrobium huifangae gen. nov., sp. nov., a Ubiquitous "Most-Wanted" Core Bacterial Taxon from Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants.

ABSTRACT: Microorganisms in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) play a key role in the removal of pollutants from municipal and industrial wastewaters. A recent study estimated that activated sludge from global municipal WWTPs harbors 1 × 10⁹ to 2 × 10⁹ microbial species, the majority of which have not yet been cultivated, and 28 core taxa were identified as "most-wanted" ones (L. Wu, D. Ning, B. Zhang, Y. Li, et al., Nat Microbiol 4:1183-1195, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0426-5). Cultivation and characterization of the "most-wanted" core bacteria are critical to understand their genetic, physiological, phylogenetic, and ecological traits, as well as to improve the performance of WWTPs. In this study, we isolated a bacterial strain, designated SJ-1, that represents

SUBMITTER: Song Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6997735 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature