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Cupriavidus pinatubonensis sp. nov. and Cupriavidus laharis sp. nov., novel hydrogen-oxidizing, facultatively chemolithotrophic bacteria isolated from volcanic mudflow deposits from Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines

¹ Department of Bioresource Science, Ibaraki University College of Agriculture, Ami-machi, Ibaraki 300-0393, Japan
² Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuda, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
³ Soils Research and Development Centre, Bureau of Soils and Water Management, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines

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Hiroyuki Ohta
hohta{at}mx.ibaraki.ac.jp

Taxonomic studies were performed on ten hydrogen-oxidizing, facultatively chemolithotrophic bacteria that were isolated from volcanic mudflow deposits derived from the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that these isolates belonged to the genus Cupriavidus of the Betaproteobacteria; sequence similarity values with their nearest phylogenetic neighbour, Cupriavidus basilensis, were 97.1–98.3 %. In addition to phylogenetic analysis, results of whole-cell protein profiles and biochemical tests revealed that these strains were members of two distinct species. DNA–DNA hybridizations and whole-cell protein profiles enabled these isolates to be differentiated from related Cupriavidus species with validly published names. The isolates were aerobic, Gram-negative, non-sporulating, peritrichously flagellated rods. Their G+C contents ranged from 65.2 to 65.9 mol% and their major isoprenoid quinone was ubiquinone Q-8. On the basis of these results, two novel species are proposed, Cupriavidus pinatubonensis sp. nov. [nine strains, with 1245^T (=CIP 108725^T=PNCM 10346^T) as the type strain] and Cupriavidus laharis sp. nov. [one strain, the type strain 1263a^T (=CIP 108726^T=PNCM 10347^T)]. It is also suggested that Ralstonia sp. LMG 1197 (=JMP 134) should be included in the species C. pinatubonensis.

A figure showing whole-cell protein electrophoretic profiling of the group P strains is available as supplementary material in IJSEM Online.

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