Family Pasteurellaceae

Three important natural succinate producers, Actinobacillus succinogenes, Mannheimia succiniciproducens, and Basfia succiniciproducens, all members of the Pasteurellaceae family within the y-proteobacteria, were isolated from mmen contents (Guettler et al., 1999 Lee et al., 2002 Kuhnert et al., 2010). All three species are capnophilic (thrive in the presence of high concentrations of carbon dioxide), facultative anaerobic bacteria which share a similar fermentative metabolism resulting in the production of succinate as major product accompanied by pyruvate dissimilation to lactate, acetate, formate, and in some cases to ethanol as minor products. 

In summary, all three members of the Pasteurellaceae family described above,... 

The family of Pasteurellaceae (y-proteobacteria) comprises genera Haemophilius, Histophilus and Pasteurella and Histophilus somnus. Structural studies of LPS from H. influenzae have identified a conserved core structure containing the... 

Kuhnert P, Scholten E, Haefner S, Mayor D, Frey J. (2010). Basfia succiniciproducens gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Pasteurellaceae isolated from bovine rumen. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, 60, 44—50. 

A. succinogenes, a bacterium from the family Pasteurellaceae, was isolated from the rumen of a cow at Michigan State University (Guettler et al., 1996,1999). The bacterium is a gramnegative, capnophilic, facultative anaerobe. 

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