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Sphingopyxis chilensis sp. nov., a chlorophenol-degrading bacterium that accumulates polyhydroxyalkanoate, and transfer of Sphingomonas alaskensis to Sphingopyxis alaskensis comb. nov.

¹ Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160-C Concepción, Chile
² BCCM/LMG Bacteria Collection, University of Ghent, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
³ Institut für Mikrobiologie der Westfälischen, Wilhelms–Universität Münster, Corrensstrasse 3, D-48149 Münster, Germany

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B. H. A. Rehm
rehm{at}uni-muenster.de

The taxonomic position of a chlorophenol-degrading bacterium, strain S37^T, was investigated. The 16S rDNA sequence indicated that this strain belongs to the genus Sphingopyxis, exhibiting high sequence similarity to the 16S rDNA sequences of Sphingomonas alaskensis LMG 18877^T (98·8 %), Sphingopyxis macrogoltabida LMG 17324^T (98·2 %), Sphingopyxis terrae IFO 15098^T (95 %) and Sphingomonas adhaesiva GIFU 11458^T (92 %). These strains (except Sphingopyxis terrae IFO 15098^T, which was not investigated) and the novel isolate accumulated polyhydroxyalkanoates consisting of 3-hydroxybutyric acid and 3-hydroxyvaleric acid from glucose as carbon source. The G+C content of the DNA of strain S37^T was 65·5 mol%. The major cellular fatty acids of this strain were octadecenoic acid (18 : 17c), heptadecenoic acid (17 : 16c) and hexadecanoic acid (16 : 0). The results of DNA–DNA hybridization experiments and its physiological characteristics clearly distinguished the novel isolate from all known Sphingopyxis species and indicated that the strain represents a novel Sphingopyxis species. Therefore, the species Sphingopyxis chilensis sp. nov. is proposed, with strain S37^T (=LMG 20986^T =DSM 14889^T) as the type strain. The transfer of Sphingomonas alaskensis to the genus Sphingopyxis as Sphingopyxis alaskensis comb. nov. is also proposed.

Published online ahead of print on 19 September 2002 as DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.02375-0.

The GenBank accession number for the 16S rDNA sequence of strain S37^T is AF367204.

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