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Woodsholea maritima gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium with a low diversity of polar lipids

¹ GBF – German Research Centre for Biotechnology, Mascheroder Weg 1, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany
² BCCM/LMG Bacteria Collection, Universiteit Gent, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
³ Area de Microbiologia, Campus UIB - Edifici Guillem Colom, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Crta. Valldemossa km 7·5, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
⁴ Dept of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
⁵ The Macaulay Research Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, UK

Correspondence
Wolf-Rainer Abraham
wab{at}gbf.de

Two cauliform bacteria (CM243^T and CM251) isolated by J. Poindexter from the Atlantic Ocean were characterized by 16S rRNA gene sequencing, TaqI restriction fragment length polymorphism and single-strand conformation polymorphism analyses of the internally transcribed 16S–23S rDNA spacer (ITS1) region, analysis of fatty acids from cellular lipids, mass spectrometry of polar lipids and physiological properties. The two strains showed very low diversity of polar lipids with diacyl-sulfoquinovosyl glycerols as the predominant lipids. The two bacterial strains were observed to have nearly identical 16S rRNA gene sequences and could not be differentiated by their ITS1 regions. The isolates differed from species of the genus Maricaulis by their 16S rRNA gene sequences, polar lipids and fatty acid patterns. On the basis of the genotypic analyses and estimations of phylogenetic similarities, physiological and chemotaxonomic characteristics, it is proposed that the isolates represent a new genus and species, for which the name Woodsholea maritima gen. nov., sp. nov. (type strain CM243^T=VKM B-1512^T=LMG 21817^T) is proposed.

Published online ahead of print on 9 February 2004 as DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.02943-0.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the 16S rDNA sequences of strains CM243^T and CM251 are AJ578476 and AJ578477, respectively.

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