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Description of Two New Thermophilic Desulfotomaculum spp., Desulfotomaculum putei sp. nov., from a Deep Terrestrial Subsurface, and Desulfotomaculum luciae sp. nov., from a Hot Spring

Yitai Liu¹, Tim M. Karnauchow^2,, Ken F. Jarrell², David L. Balkwill³, Gwendolyn R. Drake³, David Ringelberg⁴, Ronald Clarno¹ and David R. Boone^1,*

¹Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, Portland, Oregon 97291-1000
²Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
³Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306
⁴Center for Environmental Biotechnology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37932-2577

^* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 91000, Portland, OR 97291-1000. Fax: (503) 690-1273. E-mail: boone{at}ese.ogi.edu.

ABSTRACT

Six strains of thermophilic, endospore-forming, sulfate-reducing bacteria were enriched and isolated from 2.7 km below the earth's surface in the Taylorsville Triassic Basin in Virginia. The cells of these strains were motile rods that were 1 to 1.1 µ in diameter and 2 to 5 µ long. The cells grew by oxidizing H₂, formate, methanol (weakly), lactate (incompletely, to acetate and CO₂), or pyruvate (incompletely) while reducing sulfate to sulfide; acetate did not serve as a catabolic substrate. Thiosulfate or sulfite could replace sulfate as an electron acceptor. The results of a phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene indicated that these strains belong to the genus Desulfotomaculum, but are distinct from previously described Desulfotomaculum species. Thus, we propose a new species, Desulfotomaculum putei, for them, with strain TH-11 (= SMCC W459) as the type strain. The results of our phylogenetic analysis also indicated that strain SLT^T, which was isolated from a hot spring and has been described previously (T. M. Karnauchow, S. F. Koval, and K. F. Jarrell, Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 15:296-310, 1992), is also a member of the genus Desulfotomaculum and is distinct from other species in this genus. We therefore propose the new species Desulfotomaculum luciae for this organism; strain SLT (= SMCC W644) is the type strain of D. luciae.

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