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Marinospirillum celere sp. nov., a novel haloalkaliphilic, helical bacterium isolated from Mono Lake

¹ Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology RAS, 117312, pr. 60-letiya Oktyabrya 7/2, Moscow, Russia
² Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms RAS, 142290 Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia
³ NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
⁴ University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA

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Zorigto Namsaraev
zorigto{at}gmail.com

Two strains of a Gram-negative, helical, haloalkaliphilic bacterium were isolated from Mono Lake (USA). Both strains were mesophilic and grew between 13 and 55 °C, with optimum growth at 35–45 °C. The optimum pH for growth was 9.5. Growth was observed at NaCl concentrations of 0.5–12 % (w/v), with optimum growth at 2 % NaCl. Both isolates were motile by means of bipolar tuft flagella, coccoid body-forming and strictly aerobic. It was concluded that they belong to the same species, based on DNA–DNA hybridization values (95 % DNA relatedness). DNA G+C contents of the novel strains were 52.1 and 52.3 mol%. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, both strains were shown to be related closely to the members of the genus Marinospirillum (family Oceanospirillaceae, class Gammaproteobacteria). Sequence similarity of strain v1c_Sn-red^T to the type strains of Marinospirillum alkaliphilum, Marinospirillum minutulum, Marinospirillum megaterium and Marinospirillum insulare was 95.0, 92.7, 91.8 and 91.8 %, respectively. Chemotaxonomic data [major ubiquinone, Q8; major fatty acids, C_{18 : 1}(n-7) and C_{16 : 0}] and physiological and biochemical tests supported the affiliation of the novel strains to the genus Marinospirillum as members of a novel species, for which the name Marinospirillum celere sp. nov. is proposed, with the type strain v1c_Sn-red^T (=LMG 24610^T=VKM 2416^T).