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Mariniflexile fucanivorans sp. nov., a marine member of the Flavobacteriaceae that degrades sulphated fucans from brown algae

¹ Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7139 ‘Végétaux Marins et Biomolécules’, Station Biologique, F-29682 Roscoff Cedex, Bretagne, France
² Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, IFREMER, Unité Mixte de Recherche 6197 ‘Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes’, IFREMER, F-29280 Plouzané, Bretagne, France

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Tristan Barbeyron
barboun{at}sb-roscoff.fr

A rod-shaped, Gram-negative, chemo-organotrophic, heterotrophic, strictly aerobic, gliding bacterial strain, SW5^T, capable of degrading sulphated fucans from brown algae was isolated from a water-treatment facility that recycles the effluent of an alginate-extraction plant in Landerneau (Brittany, France). Its taxonomic position was investigated by a polyphasic approach. Strain SW5^T formed dark-yellow colonies, was oxidase-negative and catalase-positive and grew optimally at 25 °C and pH 7.5 and in the presence of 2.5 % (w/v) NaCl. The DNA G+C content was 34.5 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis based on the sequence of the 16S rRNA gene allocated strain SW5^T to the genus Mariniflexile in the family Flavobacteriaceae, with a similarity of 98.4 % to the type strain of Mariniflexile gromovii, the only recognized Mariniflexile species. Its low level of DNA–DNA relatedness (<25 %) with the type strain of this species and differentiating phenotypic characteristics demonstrated that strain SW5^T constitutes a novel Mariniflexile species, for which the name Mariniflexile fucanivorans sp. nov. is proposed. Strain SW5^T (=CIP 109502^T =DSM 18792^T) is the type strain.

A photograph of colonies of strain SW5^T on ZoBell agar and a phase-contrast micrograph of a ZoBell broth culture are available as supplementary material with the online version of this paper.