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Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 59 (2009), 1040-1044; DOI  10.1099/ijs.0.006072-0
© 2009 International Union of Microbiological Societies

Caldimicrobium rimae gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely thermophilic, facultatively lithoautotrophic, anaerobic bacterium from the Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka

Margarita L. Miroshnichenko1, Alexander V. Lebedinsky1, N. A. Chernyh1, Tatyana P. Tourova1, Tatyana V. Kolganova2, Stefan Spring3 and Elizaveta A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya1

1 Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospect 60-Letiya Oktyabrya 7/2, 117312 Moscow, Russia
2 Bioengineering Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospect 60-Letiya Oktyabrya 7/1, 117312 Moscow, Russia
3 DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Inhoffenstraße 7B, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany

Correspondence
Margarita L. Miroshnichenko
alfamirr{at}mail.ru

An extremely thermophilic, strictly anaerobic, facultatively chemolithoautotrophic bacterium designated strain DST was isolated from Treshchinnyi Spring, one of the hottest springs of the Uzon Caldera (Kamchatka, Russia). Cells of the novel organism were Gram-negative rods, about 1.0–1.2 µm long and 0.5 µm wide. The temperature range for growth was 52–82 °C, with an optimum at 75 °C. Growth was observed at pH 6.8–7.4, and the optimum pH was 7.0–7.2. Strain DST was able to grow lithoautotrophically with hydrogen in the presence of CO2 as a carbon source and thiosulfate or elemental sulfur as an electron acceptor. It also grew well with ethanol, fumarate, succinate or malate in the presence of thiosulfate. Yeast extract was not required for growth and did not stimulate growth. The genomic DNA G+C content was 35.2 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence indicated that the novel organism was a member of the family Thermodesulfobacteriaceae. On the basis of phylogenetic and physiological considerations, it is proposed that strain DST represents a new genus and species, Caldimicrobium rimae gen. nov., sp. nov. The type strain of Caldimicrobium rimae is DST (=DSM 19393T =VKM B-2460T).

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain DST is EF554596.

A maximum-parsimony tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequences is available as supplementary material with the online version of this paper.






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