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Bacillus herbersteinensis sp. nov.

¹ Institut für Bakteriologie, Mykologie und Hygiene, Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien, A-1210 Wien, Austria
² Institut für Angewandte Mikrobiologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, D-35392 Giessen, Germany

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Hans-Jürgen Busse
hans-juergen.busse{at}vu-wien.ac.at

Two bacterial strains, designated D-1,5a^T and D-1,5b, were isolated from a medieval wall painting in the chapel of Castle Herberstein, Styria (Austria). The Gram-positive, heterotrophic, aerobic, spore-forming rods showed nearly identical whole-cell protein patterns, identical genomic fingerprints and identical physiological profiles, demonstrating their relationship at the species level. Both strains contained meso-diaminopimelic acid in their peptidoglycan, possessed a quinone system comprising menaquinone MK-7 and had fatty acid profiles in which C_{15 : 0} iso and C_{15 : 0} anteiso were predominant. The 16S rRNA gene sequence of D-1,5a^T showed the highest similarity (99·5 %) to the sequence of Bacillus sp. LMG 20243, and Bacillus flexus IFO 15715^T was the next most closely related established species (96·5 %). Other type strains, such as Bacillus fastidiosus DSM 91^T, Bacillus indicus SD/3^T, Bacillus cibi JG-30^T, Bacillus megaterium IAM 13418^T, Bacillus cohnii DSM 6308^T, Bacillus bataviensis LMG 21833^T and Bacillus soli LMG 21838^T, shared 96·0–96·1 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with D-1,5a^T. The combination of physiological and chemotaxonomic traits distinguishes the two strains from those species sharing the highest sequence similarities (96·0–96·5 %). On the basis of these characteristics and the phylogenetic position of strain D-1,5a^T (=DSM 16534^T=CCM 7228^T), this strain is assigned as the type strain of a novel species of the genus Bacillus, for which the name Bacillus herbersteinensis sp. nov. is proposed.

Published online ahead of print on 13 May 2005 as DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63660-0.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of D-1,5a^T is AJ781029.

Genomic fingerprints and polar lipid profiles of strains D-1,5a^T and D-1,5b are available as supplementary figures in IJSEM Online.

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