| methanoculleus palmolei sp. nov., an irregularly coccoid methanogen from an anaerobic digester treating wastewater of a palm oil plant in north-sumatra, indonesia. | strain insluzt (= dsm 4273t) was isolated from a biogas-producing bioreactor treating wastewater of a palm oil mill on north-sumatra (indonesia). cells of strain insluzt were highly irregularly coccoid, 1.25-2.0 microns in diameter, had a cell envelope consisting of the cytoplasmic membrane and an s-layer of hexagonally arranged glycoprotein subunits with an m(r) of 120,000, and were flagellated (motility was not observed). cells were mesophilic and grew most rapidly at 40 degrees c on h2/co2' f ... | 1998 | 9828413 |