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1XOMA Corporation, 2910 Seventh Street, Berkeley, CA 94710, USA
2Environmental Biotechnology Institute, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407, USA
3Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados (CSIC-UIB), Crtra. Valldemosa Km 7·5, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
4Instituto de Neurobiologia, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR 00901, Puerto Rico
5PE Applied Biosystems, 850 Lincoln Centre Dr., Foster City, CA 94404, USA
Author for correspondence: L. H. Lambert. Tel: +1 510 644 1170 ext. 2014. Fax: +1 510 841 7805.
ABSTRACT
Two bacterial isolates, designated AMG-D1Tand AMG-D2, were recovered from 25-35-million-year-old Dominican amber. AMG-D1Tand AMG-D2 biochemically most closely resemble Staphylococcus xylosus; they differ physiologically from other staphylococci. Fatty acid analysis and comparisons with extensive databases were unable to show relatedness to any specific taxon. Moreover, AMG-D1Tand AMG-D2 contain tuberculostearic acid and meso-diaminopimelic acid, characteristic of the G+C-rich coryneform bacteria, as opposed to L-lysine characteristic of staphylococci. AMG-D1Tand AMG-D2 have a G+C ratio of 35 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis with the 16S rRNA gene indicated that AMG-D1Tand AMG-D2 were most closely related to Staphylococcus equorum, S. xylosus, Staphylococcus saprophyticus and other novobiocin-resistant staphylococci. Stringent DNA-DNA hybridization studies with AMG-D1Trevealed similarities of 38% with S. equorum, 23% with S. xylosus and 6% with S. saprophyticus. The results indicate that AMG-D1Tand AMG-D2 represent a novel species, which was named Staphylococcus succinus sp. nov. The type strain of the new species is AMG-D1 (ATCC 700337).
Key Words: Staphylococcus succinus sp. nov. • Dominican amber
The GenBank accession numbers for the sequences reported in this paper are AF004219 (AMG-D1T) and AF004220 (AMG-D2).
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