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Sediminibacillus halophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic, Gram-positive bacterium from a hypersaline lake

¹ Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla, Spain
² State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080 Beijing, PR China
³ Institute for Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics, University of the Western Cape, Bellville 7535, Cape Town, South Africa
⁴ Genencor International BV, Archimedesweg 30, 2333 CN Leiden, The Netherlands
⁵ Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 9HN, UK

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M. C. Márquez
cmarquez{at}us.es

A Gram-positive, moderately halophilic bacterium, designated strain EN8d^T, was isolated from sediment from Lake Erliannor in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. Cells were facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped and motile and did not display endospore formation. Isolate EN8d^T grew in a complex medium supplemented with 0–20 % (w/v) marine salts (optimally at 5–7.5 %, w/v). Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequence comparisons showed that strain EN8d^T was a member of the family Bacillaceae, belonging to a cluster with Thalassobacillus (96.3 % gene sequence similarity) and Halobacillus (95.0–96.0 %), albeit emerging as an independent lineage from members of these two genera. Strain EN8d^T contained cell-wall peptidoglycan based on meso-diaminopimelic acid and possessed MK-7 as the major respiratory isoprenoid quinone. The major fatty acids were anteiso-C_{15 : 0} and anteiso-C_{17 : 0}. The polar lipid pattern consisted of diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol and an unidentified glycolipid. The DNA G+C content was 47.5 mol%. Strain EN8d^T could be clearly differentiated from its phylogenetic neighbours on the basis of several phenotypic, genotypic and chemotaxonomic features. Therefore strain EN8d^T is considered to represent a novel genus and species, for which the name Sediminibacillus halophilus gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Sediminibacillus halophilus is EN8d^T (=CCM 7364^T =CECT 7148^T =CGMCC 1.6199^T =DSM 18088^T).

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