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Table 3 Metabolism of bacterial members of the microbial community

From: Genome resolved analysis of a premature infant gut microbial community reveals a Varibaculum cambriense genome and a shift towards fermentation-based metabolism during the third week of life

Genome

Predicted oxygen requirement

NADH: quinone oxidoreductase

Cytochrome bd complex

Fumarate reductase

TMAO reductase

DMSO reductase

Nitrate reductase

Nitrite reductase

Nitric oxide reductase

Streptococcus anginosus

Obligate anaerobe

        

Escherichia coli - strain A

Facultative anaerobe

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

Veillonella dispar

Obligate anaerobe

 

*

*

  

*

*

*

Actinomyces urogenitalis

Facultative anaerobe

*

*

*

 

*

*

*

 

Clostridium butyricum

Obligate anaerobe

    

*

*

*

 

Veillonella sp. - species A

Obligate anaerobe

 

*

*

  

*

*

*

Enterococcus faecalis

Facultative anaerobe

 

*

      

Escherichia coli - strain B

Facultative anaerobe

     

*

 

*

Varibaculum cambriense

Facultative anaerobe

*

*

*

 

*

*

  

Veillonella sp. - species B

Obligate anaerobe

     

*

 

*

Clostridium bartlettii

Obligate anaerobe

        

Negativicoccus succinicivorans

Obligate anaerobe

     

*

  

Staphylococcus sp.

Facultative anaerobe

 

*

   

*

*

*

Propionibacterium sp.

Facultative anaerobe

*

 

*

   

*

 

Streptococcus parasanguinis

Obligate anaerobe

       

*

Leuconostoc sp.

Facultative anaerobe

 

*

      

Streptococcus sp.

Facultative anaerobe

        
  1. Presence (*) and absence of components required for anaerobic respiration and the predicted oxygen requirement of each member of the bacterial community.