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Aquiflexum balticum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium of the Cytophaga–Flavobacterium–Bacteroides group isolated from surface water of the central Baltic Sea

¹ GBF – German Research Centre for Biotechnology, Dept Environmental Microbiology, Mascheroder Weg 1, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany
² UMR 6543 CNRS and Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Centre de Biochimie, Parc Valrose, F06108 Nice cedex 2, France

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Ingrid Brettar
inb{at}gbf.de

A bacterial isolate from the Baltic Sea, BA160^T, was characterized for its physiological and biochemical features, fatty acid profile, G+C content and phylogenetic position based on 16S rRNA gene sequences. The strain was isolated from the surface water of the central Baltic Sea during the decay of a plankton bloom. Phylogenetic analyses of the 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed a clear affiliation with the family ‘Flexibacteraceae’, and showed the closest phylogenetic relationship with the species Belliella baltica and Cyclobacterium marinum. The G+C content of the DNA was 38·4 mol%. The strain was red-coloured due to carotenoids, Gram-negative, rod-shaped, and catalase- and oxidase-positive. Growth was observed at salinities from 0 to 6 %, with an optimum around 1·5 %. Temperature for growth ranged from 4 to 40 °C, with an optimum around 30 °C. The fatty acids were dominated by branched-chain fatty acids (>87 %), with a high abundance of iso-C_{15 : 0} (23 %) and anteiso-C_{15 : 0} (19 %). According to its morphology, physiology, fatty acid composition, G+C content and 16S rRNA gene sequence, strain BA160^T is considered to represent a new genus of the family ‘Flexibacteraceae’. Due to its aquatic origin, the name Aquiflexum balticum gen. nov, sp. nov. is suggested for the type species (type strain, BA160^T=DSM 16537^T=LMG 22565^T=CIP 108445^T) of the new genus.

Published online ahead of print on 1 July 2004 as DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63255-0.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of Aquiflexum balticum BA160^T is AJ744861.

A phase-contrast micrograph of and a table giving details of API results for strain BA160^T are available as supplementary material in IJSEM Online.

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