scholarly journals Meiothermus hypogaeus sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic bacterium isolated from a hot spring

2012 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koji Mori ◽  
Takao Iino ◽  
Jun-ichiro Ishibashi ◽  
Hiroyuki Kimura ◽  
Moriyuki Hamada ◽  
...  

A novel moderately thermophilic, red-pigmented bacterium, designated strain AZM34c11T, was isolated from the bottom of a 1000 m-deep drilled well located in a Japanese hot spring. Cells were Gram-negative and grew optimally at 50 °C, at pH 7.6 and with 0–0.3 % (w/v) NaCl. Analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that the isolate belonged to the genus Meiothermus. Levels of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity between strain AZM34c11T and the type strains of recognized Meiothermus species were 88.2–94.8 %. Strain AZM34c11T was distinguished from recognized Meiothermus species by its cellular fatty acid profile: iso-C16 : 0 was one of the predominant components and hydroxy fatty acids were present only in trace amounts. The strain could also be differentiated based on its growth substrate preferences and characteristic enzyme reactions. On the basis of these results, strain AZM34c11T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Meiothermus, for which the name Meiothermus hypogaeus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is AZM34c11T ( = NBRC 106114T  = DSM 23238T).

2007 ◽  
Vol 57 (7) ◽  
pp. 1473-1477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiko Watanabe ◽  
Norio Nagao ◽  
Shuich Yamamoto ◽  
Tatsuki Toda ◽  
Norio Kurosawa

A Gram-negative, rod-shaped, spore-forming and moderately thermophilic bacterium, strain KWC4T, was isolated from a composting reactor. Cells of strain KWC4T were 2.0–5.0 μm long and 0.5–0.7 μm in diameter. Strain KWC4T grew aerobically at 32–61 °C, with optimal growth occurring at 50 °C. It grew at pH 5.6–10.1, with optimal growth at around pH 9.0. The optimum NaCl concentration for growth was almost 0 % (w/v), but strain KWC4T was moderately halotolerant and was able to grow at NaCl concentrations up to 4.4 % (w/v). The DNA G+C content of strain KWC4T was 60.0 mol%. The major fatty acids were iso-16 : 0 (39.0 %) and anteiso-15 : 0 (33.3 %). Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity data, strain KWC4T belonged to the genus Thermobacillus and was related to Thermobacillus xylanilyticus. However, strain KWC4T had a 38 bp insertion sequence located near the 3′ end of its 16S rRNA gene that was not present in T. xylanilyticus. The 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity value between strain KWC4T and T. xylanilyticus was 95.7 %. The DNA–DNA hybridization value between strain KWC4T and T. xylanilyticus strain XET was 66 %. On the basis of phenotypic and genotypic evidence, strain KWC4T (=DSM 18247T=JCM 13945T) is the type strain of a novel species, for which the name Thermobacillus composti sp. nov. is proposed.


2011 ◽  
Vol 61 (11) ◽  
pp. 2646-2653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisako Hirayama ◽  
Yohey Suzuki ◽  
Mariko Abe ◽  
Masayuki Miyazaki ◽  
Hiroko Makita ◽  
...  

A novel methane-oxidizing bacterium, strain HTM55T, was isolated from subsurface hot aquifer water from a Japanese gold mine. Strain HTM55T was a Gram-negative, aerobic, motile, coccoid bacterium with a single polar flagellum and the distinctive intracytoplasmic membrane arrangement of a type I methanotroph. Strain HTM55T was a moderately thermophilic, obligate methanotroph that grew on methane and methanol at 37–65 °C (optimum 55–60 °C). The isolate grew at pH 5.2–7.5 (optimum 5.8–6.3) and with 0–1 % NaCl (optimum 0–0.3 %). The ribulose monophosphate pathway was operative for carbon assimilation. The DNA G+C content was 54.4 mol% and the major fatty acids were C16 : 0 (52.0 %) and C18 : 1ω7c (34.8 %). Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence indicated that strain HTM55T was closely related to Methylothermus thermalis MYHTT (99.2 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity), which is within the class Gammaproteobacteria. However, DNA–DNA relatedness between strain HTM55T and Methylothermus thermalis MYHTT was ≤39 %. On the basis of distinct phylogenetic, chemotaxonomic and physiological characteristics, strain HTM55T represents a novel species of the genus Methylothermus, for which the name Methylothermus subterraneus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is HTM55T ( = JCM 13664T = DSM 19750T).


2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 2066-2071 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Khomyakova ◽  
A. Y. Merkel ◽  
D. S. Kopitsyn ◽  
E. A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya ◽  
A. I. Slobodkin

A novel anaerobic, thermophilic bacterium (strain A05 MBT) was isolated from Daginsky thermal springs (Sakhalin, Russia) on 2-methoxybenzoate as a substrate. Cells of the strain were motile long rods, 3.0–5.0 µm in length and 0.5–0.6 µm in diameter. The temperature range for growth was 47–68 °C, with an optimum at 60 °C. The pH range for growth was 4.5–8.0, with an optimum at pH 5.5–6.0. Strain A05 MBT did not require NaCl for growth. The strain utilized methoxylated aromatic compounds (2-methoxybenzoate and 3,4-dimethoxybenzoate), a number of carbohydrates (glucose, fructose, mannose, trehalose, xylose, sucrose, galactose, ribose, maltose, raffinose, lactose, cellobiose and dextrin) and proteinaceous substrates (yeast extract, beef extract, peptone and tryptone). The end products of glucose fermentation were acetate, ethanol and CO2. The DNA G+C content of strain A05 MBT was 40.2 mol% (whole-genome analysis). 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis revealed that strain A05MBT belongs to the order Thermoanaerobacterales (phylum Firmicutes ). The closest relative of strain A05 MBT was Caloribacterium cisternae (94.3 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity). Based on the phenotypic, genotypic and phylogenetic characteristics of the isolate, strain A05 MBT is considered to represent a novel species of a new genus, for which the name Calorimonas adulescens gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Calorimonas adulescens is A05 MBT (=KCTC 15839T=VKM B-3388T).


2007 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. V. Kublanov ◽  
M. I. Prokofeva ◽  
N. A. Kostrikina ◽  
T. V. Kolganova ◽  
T. P. Tourova ◽  
...  

An anaerobic, moderately thermoacidophilic bacterium, strain 761-119T, was isolated from an acidic hot spring in the Orange Field of the Uzon Caldera (Kamchatka, far-eastern Russia). Cells were spore-forming, Gram-positive rods, possessing one polar flagellum. Growth of strain 761-119T was observed between 37 and 68 °C and in the pH20 °C range 3.2–7.1. No growth was observed within 5 days of incubation at or below 35 °C and at or above 70 °C, as well as at or below pH20 °C 2.8 and at or above pH20 °C 7.5. The optimal temperature and pH20 °C for growth were 55 °C and pH20 °C 5.7, respectively. A wide range of carbohydrates and polysaccharides were fermented, as well as peptides and proteinaceous substrates. The main products of glucose fermentation were acetate, ethanol, lactate, H2 and CO2. The DNA G+C content was 34 (±0.5) mol%. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated that strain 761-119T belonged to the genus Thermoanaerobacterium. The level of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with other Thermoanaerobacterium species was 86.5–97.8 %, with the only moderately acidophilic member of this genus, Thermoanaerobacterium aotearoense, being one of its closest relatives. DNA–DNA hybridization with T. aotearoense showed 33 % relatedness. Thus, morphological (one polar flagellum) and physiological characteristics (lower pH limit of growth at pH20 °C 3.2 compared with T. aotearoense) and 16S rRNA gene sequence analyses revealed that strain 761-119T represents a novel species in the genus Thermoanaerobacterium, for which the name Thermoanaerobacterium aciditolerans sp. nov. is proposed, with the type strain 761-119T (=DSM 16487T=VKM B-2363T).


2011 ◽  
Vol 61 (7) ◽  
pp. 1544-1548 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. D. Rekha ◽  
Chiu-Chung Young ◽  
Peter Kämpfer ◽  
Karin Martin ◽  
A. B. Arun ◽  
...  

A beige-coloured, Gram-staining negative, aerobic, non-motile, moderately thermophilic, rod-shaped bacterium, CC-MHSW-1T, was isolated on Marine Agar 2216 from a water sample from a coastal hot spring on Green Island (Lutao), located off Taituang, Taiwan. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis demonstrated that the novel strain shared <94 % sequence similarity with members of the genera Lutimaribacter, Maritimibacter and Oceanicola. Ubiquinone (Q-10) was the major respiratory quinone and C18 : 1ω7c was the predominant fatty acid. The predominant polar lipids were phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, diphosphatidylglycerol and unidentified phospholipids and aminolipids. The DNA G+C content of strain CC-MHSW-1T was 64.7 mol%. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis and the chemotaxonomic and physiological data, strain CC-MHSW-1T represents a new genus and species in the family Rhodobacteraceae for which the name Jhaorihella thermophila gen. nov., sp. nov., is proposed. The type strain of the type species is CC-MHSW-1T ( = JCM 15068T = CCM 7767T).


2010 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 861-865 ◽  
Author(s):  
Digvijay Panday ◽  
Subrata K. Das

A moderately thermophilic bacterial strain (HT4T) isolated from a hot spring sediment was characterized phenotypically and phylogenetically. Cells were Gram-negative, aerobic, non-sporulating, rod-shaped and motile by means of a single polar flagellum. Both oxidase and catalase activities were positive. Heterotrophic growth was observed at pH 6.0–8.5 and at 20–50 °C; optimum growth occurred at pH 7.5–8.0 and 37–42 °C. The major cellular fatty acids were C14 : 0 3-OH, C18 : 0 3-OH, C18 : 1 2-OH, C18 : 1 ω7c and C19 : 0 cyclo ω8c. The DNA G+C content of strain HT4T was 67.8 mol%.16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated that strain HT4T clustered within the radiation of the genus Chelatococcus and showed 99.0 % similarity with Chelatococcus daeguensis CCUG 54519T and 96 % similarity with Chelatococcus asaccharovorans DSM 6462T. However, levels of DNA–DNA relatedness between strain HT4T and Chelatococcus daeguensis CCUG 54519T and Chelatococcus asaccharovorans DSM 6462T were 52 and 20 %, respectively. On the basis of the phenotypic, physiological and chemotaxonomic data, 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis and DNA–DNA hybridization results, strain HT4T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Chelatococcus, for which the name Chelatococcus sambhunathii sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is HT4T (=DSM 18167T=JCM 14988T).


2011 ◽  
Vol 61 (8) ◽  
pp. 1842-1848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kikue Hirota ◽  
Keiko Yamahira ◽  
Kenji Nakajima ◽  
Yoshinobu Nodasaka ◽  
Hidetoshi Okuyama ◽  
...  

A psychrotolerant, facultatively alkaliphilic strain, HT-3T, was isolated from a sample of soil immersed in hot-spring water containing hydrocarbons in Toyotomi, Hokkaido, Japan. 16S rRNA gene sequence-based phylogeny suggested that strain HT-3T is a member of the genus Pseudomonas and belongs to the Pseudomonas oleovorans group. Cells of the isolate were Gram-negative, aerobic, straight rods, motile by a single polar flagellum. The strain grew at 4–42 °C, with optimum growth at 35 °C at pH 7, and at pH 6–10. It hydrolysed Tweens 20, 40, 60 and 80, but not casein, gelatin, starch or DNA. Its major isoprenoid quinone was ubiquinone-9 (Q-9) and the DNA G+C content was 65.1 mol%. The whole-cell fatty acid profile consisted mainly of C16 : 0, C16 : 1ω9c and C18 : 1ω9c. Phylogenetic analyses based on gyrB, rpoB and rpoD sequences revealed that the isolate could be discriminated from Pseudomonas species that exhibited more than 97 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity and phylogenetic neighbours belonging to the P. oleovorans group including the closest relative of the isolate, Pseudomonas alcaliphila. DNA–DNA hybridization with P. alcaliphila AL15-21T revealed 51±5 % relatedness. Owing to differences in phenotypic properties and phylogenetic analyses based on multilocus gene sequence analysis and DNA–DNA relatedness data, the isolate merits classification in a novel species, for which the name Pseudomonas toyotomiensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is HT-3T ( = JCM 15604T  = NCIMB 14511T).


2015 ◽  
Vol 65 (Pt_1) ◽  
pp. 293-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Bing ◽  
Honglei Wang ◽  
Baisong Zheng ◽  
Feng Zhang ◽  
Guangshan Zhu ◽  
...  

A novel thermophilic bacterial strain, CBS-ZT, was isolated from a terrestrial hot spring in the Changbai Mountains, PR China. Cells of strain CBS-ZT were short straight rods without flagella and had Gram-positive cell walls. Growth was observed at 40–90 °C (optimum 75 °C) and at pH 5.6–8.6 (optimum pH 7.8). The primary end-products from the fermentation of filter paper by strain CBS-ZT were acetate, lactate, H2, and CO2. The main cellular fatty acids were iso-C17 : 0, iso-C14 : 0 3-OH and C16 : 0. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 36.08 mol%. Multiple sequence alignment of the 16S rRNA gene sequence and phylogenetic analyses indicated that strain CBS-ZT belongs to the genus Caldicellulosiruptor and the most similar micro-organism was Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus DSM 8903T (96.36 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity); the 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity of strain CBS-ZT to other species was below 95 %. Based on its phylogenetic and phenotypic characteristics, strain CBS-ZT represents a novel species of the genus Caldicellulosiruptor , for which the name Caldicellulosiruptor changbaiensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is CBS-ZT ( = DSM 26941T = CGMCC 1.5180T).


2005 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 385-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eun Mi Lee ◽  
Che Ok Jeon ◽  
Inpyo Choi ◽  
Kyu-Seob Chang ◽  
Chang-Jin Kim

A moderately thermophilic aerobic bacterium, strain 25-4T, was isolated from a hot spring at Baekdoo Mountain in Korea. The cells were Gram-negative, motile rods each having a polar flagellum. Analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence indicated that the strain represented a new lineage within the family ‘Xanthomonadaceae’ of the ‘Gammaproteobacteria’, being most closely related to the genera Thermomonas, Xanthomonas, Luteimonas, Pseudoxanthomonas, Stenotrophomonas and Xylella and having 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities to the most related species of the genera of between 92·9 and 94·4 %. The strain contained Q-8 as the major isoprenoid quinone and had a fatty acid profile with predominant iso-branched fatty acids. Growth occurred at pH 6·0–10, with an optimum at pH 9·0, and at 25–53 °C, with an optimum at 47 °C. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 50·7 mol%. On the basis of phylogenetic analyses and its phenotypic characteristics, strain 25-4T belongs to a new genus, Silanimonas gen. nov., within the ‘Gammaproteobacteria’. The sole species of this genus is Silanimonas lenta sp. nov. (type strain, 25-4T=DSM 16282T=KCTC 12236T).


2006 ◽  
Vol 56 (7) ◽  
pp. 1621-1629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuji Sekiguchi ◽  
Hiroyuki Imachi ◽  
Ambar Susilorukmi ◽  
Mizuho Muramatsu ◽  
Akiyoshi Ohashi ◽  
...  

Three anaerobic, moderately thermophilic, syntrophic primary alcohol- and lactate-degrading microbes, designated strains JLT, JE and OL, were isolated from sludges of thermophilic (55 °C) digesters that decomposed either municipal solid wastes or sewage sludge. The strains were strictly anaerobic organisms. All three strains grew at 25–60 °C and pH 5.5–8.5 and optimum growth was observed at 45–50 °C and pH 6.0–7.0. The three organisms grew chemo-organotrophically on a number of carbohydrates in the presence of yeast extract. In co-culture with the hydrogenotrophic methanogen Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus, all strains could utilize ethanol, glycerol and lactate syntrophically for growth, although these compounds were not metabolized in pure culture without additional external electron acceptors. All strains could reduce thiosulphate. Quinones were not detected. The DNA G+C contents of strains JLT, JE and OL were 38.0, 37.3 and 37.7 mol%, respectively. Major cellular fatty acids of the strains were iso-C15 : 0, C16 : 0 and unsaturated species of C15 : 1. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that the strains belong to a deeply branched lineage of the phylum Firmicutes; the most closely related species was Thermovenabulum ferriorganovorum (16S rRNA gene sequence similarity of 88 %). The three strains were phylogenetically very closely related to each other (99–100 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity) and were physiologically and chemotaxonomically similar. These genetic and phenotypic properties suggest that the strains should be classified as representatives of a novel species and genus; the name Tepidanaerobacter syntrophicus gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Tepidanaerobacter syntrophicus is strain JLT (=JCM 12098T=NBRC 100060T=DSM 15584T).


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