Lens P N, Kuenen J G
Department Environmental Technology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
Water Sci Technol. 2001;44(8):57-66.
Although the study of sulfur cycle bacteria was already started around the 1890s by the famous microbiologists Winogradsky and Beijerinck, there are nowadays still many new discoveries to be made about the metabolic properties, phylogenetic position and ecological behaviour of bacteria that play a role in the biological sulfur cycle. The current interest of the scientific community in the biological sulfur cycle is very high, especially because of the many special organisms that have recently been discovered in the deep sea and other environments characterised by extreme conditions (such as high salt, low/high pH or temperature) and also in bioreactor environments. This paper highlights some of these new discoveries and relates them to environmental biotechnology. It is concluded that the micro-organisms from the sulfur cycle offer unique opportunities for sulfur pollution abatement and sulfur recovery.
尽管著名微生物学家维诺格拉茨基（Winogradsky）和拜耶林克（Beijerinck）在19世纪90年代左右就已经开始了对硫循环细菌的研究，但时至今日，对于在生物硫循环中发挥作用的细菌的代谢特性、系统发育位置和生态行为，仍有许多新的发现有待探索。科学界目前对生物硫循环的兴趣非常浓厚，特别是因为最近在深海和其他具有极端条件（如高盐、低/高pH值或温度）的环境以及生物反应器环境中发现了许多特殊的生物。本文重点介绍了其中的一些新发现，并将它们与环境生物技术联系起来。得出的结论是，来自硫循环的微生物为减少硫污染和回收硫提供了独特的机会。
