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Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 59 (2009), 2778-2781; DOI  10.1099/ijs.0.010470-0
© 2009 International Union of Microbiological Societies

Propionibacterium acidifaciens sp. nov., isolated from the human mouth

Julia Downes and William G. Wade

King's College London Dental Institute at Guy’s, King's College and St Thomas' Hospital, Infection Research Group, London SE1 9RT, UK

Correspondence
William G. Wade
william.wade{at}kcl.ac.uk

Three strains of anaerobic, pleomorphic, Gram-positive-staining bacilli, which were isolated from human carious dentine, were subjected to a comprehensive range of phenotypic and genotypic tests and were found to comprise a homogeneous group. The strains were saccharolytic and produced acetic and propionic acids in large amounts, and succinic acid in moderate amounts, as the end products of fermentation. 16S rRNA gene and RpoB protein sequence analyses revealed that the strains constituted a novel group within the genus Propionibacterium, most closely related to Propionibacterium australiense but sharing only 8 % DNA–DNA relatedness with the type strain of that species. Therefore, a novel species, Propionibacterium acidifaciens sp. nov., is proposed to accommodate these strains. The DNA G+C content of the type strain is 70 mol%. The type strain is C3M_31T (=DSM 21887T =CCUG 57100T).

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the 16S rRNA gene sequences of strains C3M_31T, C2A_34 and C5A_34 are EU979537, FJ746023 and FJ746024, respectively, and those for the rpoB gene sequences of strains C3M_31T and C5A_34 are FJ409978 and FJ746025, respectively.






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