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. 2011 Jul;77(13):4473–4485. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00116-11

Table 3.

Composition of media used to cultivate Clostridium spp.

Component Component concn (g/liter) in mediuma:
Consolidated medium of this study Wiesenborn et al. (69) Ounine et al. (54) Lin and Blaschek (43) Woolley and Morris (70) Long et al. (45)
KH2PO4 3 0.75 0.5 0.75 3
K2HPO4·3H2O 0.5
K2HPO4 0.75 0.75
MgSO4·7H2O 0.03 0.2 0.03 0.2
MgSO4 0.4 0.02
MnSO4 0.01 0.01 0.01
MnCl2·4H2O 0.01 0.01 0.01
FeSO4·7H2O 0.01 0.01 0.01
FeSO4·2H2O 0.01 0.01 0.01
NaCl 0.01 1.0 0.01 1
CH3COONH4 2.2
(NH4)2HPO4 6
NH4Cl 3 3
(NH4)2SO4 0.5 2.0 2 0.5
CaCl2 0.011 0.011
CaCO3 20
CuSO4·5H2O 0.032 0.032
CoCl2·6H2O 0.032 0.032
ZnSO4 0.044 0.044 0.05
(NH4)6Mo7O24·4H2O 0.022 0.022
Biotin 0.001 1.10−5 0.001 tr
p-Aminobenzoic acid 0.002 0.001 0.002 0.001
Thiamine HCl 0.002 0.002 0.001
Cysteine 0.05 0.05 0.5
Asparagine 0.05 2.0 2
Yeast extract 1 5.0 10
EDTA 0.1 mM
Tryptophan 0.05
Histidine 0.05
Glutamine 0.05
Riboflavin 0.001
Vitamin B12 0.001
Carbon source d-Glucose/d-xylose d-Glucose Several Corn starch d-Glucose d-Glucose
a.

The first or leftmost column shows the composition of the consolidated medium utilized for the cultivation of Clostridium spp. used in this study. The medium was formulated after evaluation of meta-analysis data from cultures of C. acetobutylicum ATCC 824 exposed to butanol (Tables 1 and 2) and through comparisons to media described in the references shown. Concentrations are expressed in grams/liter except for EDTA, which is expressed in millimolar.