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Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 58 (2008), 2748-2754; DOI  10.1099/ijs.0.65847-0
© 2008 International Union of Microbiological Societies

Chryseobacterium hungaricum sp. nov., isolated from hydrocarbon-contaminated soil

Sándor Szoboszlay1,{dagger}, Béla Atzél1,{dagger}, József Kukolya2, Erika M. Tóth3, Károly Márialigeti3, Peter Schumann4 and Balázs Kriszt1

1 Department of Environmental Protection and Environmental Safety, Szent István University, Páter K. u. 1, 2103 Gödöllo, Hungary
2 Agruniver Holding Ltd, Ganz Á. u. 2, Gödöllo, Hungary
3 Department of Microbiology, Eötvös Loránd Science University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/a, 1117 Budapest, Hungary
4 DSMZ, Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Inhoffenstraße 7b, 30124 Braunschweig, Germany

Correspondence
Béla Atzél
atzel.bela{at}kti.szie.hu

The taxonomic position of a strain isolated from kerosene-contaminated soil in Hungary and formerly misidentified as Brevundimonas vesicularis was examined using a polyphasic approach. The isolate, designated CHB-20pT, could be clearly assigned to the genus Chryseobacterium (family Flavobacteriaceae) on the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity. Strain CHB-20pT, a moderate oil degrader, was a Gram-negative, aerobic, mesophilic microbe with a temperature optimum of 28–30 °C. Predominant fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0, summed feature 3 (comprising C16 : 1{omega}7c and/or iso-C15 : 0 2-OH) and iso-C17 : 0 3-OH. Menaquinone-6 (MK-6) was the predominant respiratory quinone; MK-5 was present as a minor component. The almost complete 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain CHB-20pT shared 94–97 % similarity with sequences of the type strains of species of the genus Chryseobacterium. DNA–DNA relatedness between strain CHB-20pT and its closest relative, Chryseobacterium caeni, was lower than 46 %. Moreover, several diagnostic phenotypic properties distinguished strain CHB-20pT from C. caeni. On the basis of biochemical, chemotaxonomic and genotypic data, isolate CHB-20pT represents a novel species within the genus Chryseobacterium, Chryseobacterium hungaricum sp. nov.; the type strain is CHB-20pT (=NCAIM B2269T=DSM 19684T).

Abbreviations: DPG, diphosphatidylglycerol; EM, electron microscopy; PE, phosphatidylethanolamine; PG, phosphatidylglycerol; PS, phosphatidylserine

{dagger}These authors contributed equally to this work.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain CHB-20pT is EF685359.

Electron micrographs of cells and API ZYM profiles of strain CHB-20pT and other species of the genus Chryseobacterium are available with the online version of this paper.






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