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Halomonas taeanensis sp. nov., a novel moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a solar saltern in Korea

Jae-Chan Lee^1,, Che Ok Jeon^2,, Jee-Min Lim¹, Sang-Mi Lee¹, Jung-Min Lee¹, Sung-Min Song¹, Dong-Jin Park¹, Wen-Jun Li³ and Chang-Jin Kim¹

¹ Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, 52 Oeundong, Yusong, Daejeon 305-333, Republic of Korea
² Environmental Biotechnology National Core Research Center, Division of Environmental Biotechnology, Gyeongsang National University, 660-701, Republic of Korea
³ The Key Laboratory for Microbial Resources, Ministry of Education, P.R. China, Yunnan Institute of Microbiology, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, People's Republic of China

Correspondence
Chang-Jin Kim
changjin{at}kribb.re.kr

A moderately halophilic, Gram-negative bacterium, strain BH539^T, which was isolated from a solar saltern at Taean in Korea, was considered to be a member of the genus Halomonas. Strain BH539^T grew at salinities of 1–25 % (w/v) and at temperatures of 10–45 °C. Cells were short rods that were motile by means of several flagella. Their major fatty acids were C_{18 : 1}7c, C_{16 : 0} and C_{19 : 0} cyclo 8c. The genomic DNA G+C content was about 65 mol% and the predominant ubiquinone was Q-9. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that the isolate formed a branch of the species Cobetia marina. However, 23S and 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities revealed that strain BH539^T was related more closely to the type strains of the genus Halomonas. Phylogenetic analyses based on 23S rRNA gene sequences also indicated that the strain formed a phyletic line within the genus Halomonas. Therefore, it was concluded that strain BH539^T should be classified within the genus Halomonas, rather than Cobetia. On the basis of physiological and molecular properties, strain BH539^T represents a novel species of the genus Halomonas, for which the name Halomonas taeanensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is BH539^T (=KCTC 12284^T=DSM 16463^T).

Published online ahead of print on 20 May 2005 as DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63616-0.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the 16S and 23S rRNA gene sequences of strain BH539^T are AY671975 and AY829729, respectively.

A micrograph showing the general morphology of a cell of strain BH539^T and a table detailing the cellular fatty acid composition of the strain are available as supplementary material in IJSEM Online.

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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