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Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54 (2004), 1369-1375; DOI  10.1099/ijs.0.03047-0
© 2004 International Union of Microbiological Societies

Bacillus indicus sp. nov., an arsenic-resistant bacterium isolated from an aquifer in West Bengal, India

K. Suresh1, S. R. Prabagaran1, S. Sengupta2 and S. Shivaji1

1 Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad - 500 007, India
2 Geological survey of India, GSI Complex, DK-6, Sector-II, Bidhannagar, Kolkata - 700 091, India

Correspondence
S. Shivaji
shivas{at}ccmb.res.in

Strain Sd/3T (=MTCC 4374T=DSM 15820T), an arsenic-resistant bacterium, was isolated from a sand sample obtained from an arsenic-contaminated aquifer in Chakdah district in West Bengal, India (23° 3' N 88° 35' E). The bacterium was Gram-positive, rod-shaped, non-motile, endospore-forming and yellowish-orange pigmented. It possessed all the characteristics that conform to the genus Bacillus, such as it had A4{beta} murein type (L-orn-D-Asp) peptidoglycan variant, MK-7 as the major menaquinone and iso-C15 : 0 and anteiso-C15 : 0 as the major fatty acids. Based on its chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic characteristics, strain Sd/3T was identified as a species of the genus Bacillus. It exhibited maximum similarity (95 %) at the 16S rRNA gene level with Bacillus cohnii; however, DNA–DNA similarity with B. cohnii was 60·7 %. Strain Sd/3T also exhibited a number of phenotypic differences from B. cohnii (DSM 6307T). These data suggest that Sd/3T represents a novel species of the genus Bacillus. The name Bacillus indicus sp. nov. is proposed.


Published online ahead of print on 9 February 2004 as DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.03047-0.

The GenBank accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain Sd/3T is AJ583158.




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