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Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54 (2004), 2313-2317; DOI  10.1099/ijs.0.03003-0
© 2004 International Union of Microbiological Societies

Mycobacterium pyrenivorans sp. nov., a novel polycyclic-aromatic-hydrocarbon-degrading species

Kerstin Derz1, Ulrich Klinner2, Ingolf Schuphan1, Erko Stackebrandt3 and Reiner M. Kroppenstedt3

1 Department of Ecology, Ecotoxicology and Ecochemistry, Aachen University, Worringerweg 1, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
2 Unit of Applied Microbiology, Department of Microbiology and Genetics, Aachen University, Worringerweg 1, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
3 Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Mascheroder Weg 1b, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany

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Reiner M. Kroppenstedt
kdt{at}dsmz.de

The taxonomic position of a polycyclic-aromatic-hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium, strain 17A3T, isolated from contaminated soil was determined using a combination of phenotypic and genotypic properties. The isolate showed phenotypic properties that were diagnostic for species of the genus Mycobacterium. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis assigned 17A3T to the 16S rRNA gene subgroup that contains Mycobacterium aurum, Mycobacterium austroafricanum, Mycobacterium vaccae and Mycobacterium vanbaalenii, but it could clearly be distinguished from these species using a combination of physiological, chemotaxonomic markers and internal rRNA gene spacer analyses. The data showed that strain 17A3T (=DSM 44605T=NRRL B-24244T) merits recognition as the type strain of a novel species of the genus Mycobacterium. The name Mycobacterium pyrenivorans sp. nov. is proposed for the species because of its ability to use pyrene as a sole source of carbon and energy.

Abbreviations: PAH, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon; RISA, rRNA gene internal spacer analysis

Published online ahead of print on 30 July 2004 as DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.03003-0.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number of the 16S rRNA gene sequence of Mycobacterium pyrenivorans 17A3T is AJ431371.




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