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Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 57 (2007), 796-802; DOI  10.1099/ijs.0.64284-0
© 2007 International Union of Microbiological Societies

Gracilibacillus boraciitolerans sp. nov., a highly boron-tolerant and moderately halotolerant bacterium isolated from soil

Iftikhar Ahmed1,2, Akira Yokota3 and Toru Fujiwara1,4

1 Biotechnology Research Centre, University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
2 National Agricultural Research Centre, Park Road, Islamabad 45500, Pakistan
3 Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
4 SORST, JST, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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Iftikhar Ahmed
iftikharnarc{at}hotmail.com
Toru Fujiwara
atorufu{at}mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

A motile, Gram-positive, boron-tolerant and moderately halotolerant rod-shaped bacterium was isolated from a soil naturally high in boron minerals found in the Hisarcik area of Turkey. The novel isolate, designated T-16XT, produced spherical or ellipsoidal endospores in a non-bulging or slightly swollen sporangium in a terminal position and survived in a medium containing up to 450 mM boron. Whereas it tolerated 11 % (w/v) NaCl, it also grew without NaCl or boron. The temperature range for growth was 16–37 °C (optimum 25–28 °C) and the pH range for growth was 6.0–10.0 (optimum pH 7.5–8.5). The DNA G+C content was 35.8 mol% and the major cellular fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0 and anteiso-C15 : 0 at 18.2 and 45.7 % of the total fatty acids, respectively. MK-7 (90 %) was the predominant respiratory quinone system and meso-diaminopimelic acid was the predominant diamino acid of the cell-wall peptidoglycan. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that the novel strain is closely related to the type strains of Gracilibacillus orientalis (96.7 % similarity), G. halotolerans (95.5 %) and G. dipsosauri (95.4 %). However, the maximum DNA hybridization value for this strain with these closely related strains was less than 26.2 %. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence data and chemotaxonomic and physiological features, the organism T-16XT (=DSM 17256T=IAM 15263T=ATCC BAA-1190T) is proposed to be a member of the genus Gracilibacillus as the type strain of the novel species Gracilibacillus boraciitolerans sp. nov.


The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain T-16XT is AB197126.

SEMs of cells of strain T-16XT, details of boron tolerance for strain T-16XT and related strains, parsimony and maximum-likelihood trees based on 16S rRNA gene sequences and results of TLC of polar lipids of strain T-16XT are available as supplementary material in IJSEM Online.




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