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1 Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología, CSIC, Salamanca, Spain
2 Departamento de Microbiología y Génetica, Lab. 209, Edificio Departamental de Biología, Campus M. Unamuno, Universidad de Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
Correspondence
Encarna Velázquez
evp{at}usal.es
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-subclass of Proteobacteria within the genus Pseudomonas and that the closest related species is Pseudomonas graminis. The strain produced catalase but not oxidase. Cellulose, casein, starch, gelatin and urea were not hydrolysed. Aesculin was hydrolysed. Growth was observed with many carbohydrates as carbon sources. The main non-polar fatty acids detected were hexadecenoic acid (16 : 1), hexadecanoic acid (16 : 0) and octadecenoic acid (18 : 1). The hydroxy fatty acids detected were 3-hydroxydecanoic acid (3-OH 10 : 0), 3-hydroxydodecanoic acid (3-OH 12 : 0) and 2-hydroxydodecanoic acid (2-OH 12 : 0). The G+C DNA content determined was 59·3 mol%. DNA–DNA hybridization showed 48·7 % relatedness between strain OK2T and P. graminis DSM 11363T and 26·2 % with respect to Pseudomonas rhizosphaerae LMG 21640T. Therefore, these results indicate that strain OK2T (=LMG 21974T=CECT 5822T) belongs to a novel species of the genus Pseudomonas, and the name Pseudomonas lutea sp. nov. is proposed.
The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain OK2T is AY364537.
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), all of them belonging to rRNA group I (Palleroni et al., 1973; Palleroni, 1992). Recently, a novel phosphate-solubilizing species, Pseudomonas rhizosphaerae, isolated from the rhizosphere of grasses, was described (Peix et al., 2003). This species forms a group separate from other Pseudomonas species together with Pseudomonas graminis, which was isolated from the above-ground parts of grasses (Behrendt et al., 1999). During a study of phosphate-solubilizing rhizospheric bacteria in soils from northern Spain, we isolated a strain that produces a yellow pigment in media containing glucose as carbon source and generates a great transparent ‘halo’ surrounding its colonies in media containing insoluble bicalcium phosphate as phosphorus source. The ability of this strain to solubilize phosphate is similar to that of P. rhizosphaerae IH5T, but strain OK2T solubilizes phosphate more slowly.
Strain OK2T was isolated as described previously (Peix et al., 2001). Strain OK2T was grown in nutrient agar medium for 48 h at 22 °C to check for motility by phase-contrast microscopy. Cells were also stained according to the classic Gram procedure described by Doetsch (1981). Strain OK2T is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped and motile organism (0·7–0·8x1·2–1·6 µm). Cells grew as translucent, yellow-coloured colonies on nutrient agar.
For 16S rDNA sequencing, DNA was extracted as described previously (Rivas et al., 2001). Amplification and sequencing of the nearly complete 16S rRNA gene was performed according to methods already described (Rivas et al., 2003). The sequence obtained was compared with those from GenBank using the BLAST program (Altschul et al., 1990). Sequences were analysed using the parameters and methods used previously for description of P. rhizosphaerae (Peix et al., 2003). Bootstrap analysis was based on 1000 resamplings. The MEGA 2.1.0 package (Kumar et al., 2001) was used for all analyses. The nearly complete 16S rDNA sequence of strain OK2T (1531 nucleotides) showed 99·2 and 98·7 % similarity, respectively, to those of P. graminis DSM 11363T and P. rhizosphaerae LMG 21640T. A complete phylogenetic analysis using the parameters and tree building methods used in the description of P. rhizosphaerae (Peix et al., 2003) was performed and the same results were obtained from all the methods used (data not shown). In these analyses, all species of genus Pseudomonas sensu stricto according to Anzai et al. (2000), other species of Pseudomonas with validly published names listed by Peix et al. (2003), including the novel species P. rhizosphaerae, and the three recently described species Pseudomonas congelans, Pseudomonas poae and Pseudomonas trivialis (Behrendt et al., 2003) were included. Fig. 1 shows a reduced phylogenetic tree obtained with Kimura's two-parameter method (Kimura, 1980) and the neighbour-joining method (Saitou & Nei, 1987), showing the phylogenetic placement of strain OK2T within the genus Pseudomonas in a separate group together with P. rhizosphaerae LMG 21640T and P. graminis DSM 11363T.
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) using P. rhizosphaerae LMG 21640T and P. graminis DSM 11363T as references. Strain OK2T showed an ability to solubilize phosphates on YED-P plates comparable to that of P. rhizosphaerae LMG 21640T, although strain OK2T displayed a lower solubilization rate. Under the same medium and culture conditions, P. graminis DSM 11363T showed limited ability to solubilize phosphates. The optimal growth temperature was 25 °C on nutrient agar. As for P. rhizosphaerae LMG 21640T, the API 20NE and API 50CH systems were used only to characterize strain OK2T, because, as pointed out by Behrendt et al. (1999) and Peix et al. (2003), the identification of non-clinical isolates is often wrong with these systems. Differential phenotypic characteristics among strain OK2T, the phylogenetically closest species of genus Pseudomonas sensu stricto, P. rhizosphaerae and P. graminis and other phenotypic related species are shown in Table 1. According to the data, strain OK2T is very similar to P. rhizosphaerae and P. graminis, forming a phylogenetic group within genus Pseudomonas characterized by the absence of oxidase and fluorescent pigment production. Strain OK2T differs from P. rhizosphaerae in assimilation of erythritol, sorbitol, xylitol, melibiose and L-rhamnose and in aesculin hydrolysis and from P. graminis in assimilation of sorbitol, xylitol and melibiose.
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. The results of the chemotaxonomic analyses are shown in Table 2. The main non-polar fatty acids detected were hexadecenoic acid (16 : 1), hexadecanoic acid (16 : 0) and octadecenoic acid (18 : 1). The hydroxy fatty acids detected were 3-hydroxydecanoic acid (3-OH 10 : 0), 3-hydroxydodecanoic acid (3-OH 12 : 0) and 2-hydroxydodecanoic acid (2-OH 12 : 0). This fatty acid profile is characteristic of strains from rRNA group I (Oyaizu & Komagata, 1983). According to published data, the cellular fatty acid pattern of strain OK2T is similar to those of P. graminis and P. rhizosphaerae (Behrendt et al., 1999; Peix et al., 2003). The main differences between the strain OK2T and P. graminis were the presence of hydroxydecanoic acid (3-OH 10 : 0), which was not detected in the latter species, and the presence of tetradecanoic acid (14 : 0) in P. graminis, which was not detected in strain OK2T. With respect to P. rhizosphaerae, the main differences were the presence in this species of tetradecanoic acid (14 : 0) and heptadecanoic acid (17 : 0), which were not detected in strain OK2T.
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. The DNA G+C content was determined as 59·3 mol% using the thermal denaturation method (Mandel & Marmur, 1968). This value is similar to those obtained for P. graminis and P. rhizosphaerae (Behrendt et al., 1999; Peix et al., 2003).
For DNA–DNA hybridization analyses, DNA was isolated by hydroxyapatite chromatography by the procedure of Cashion et al. (1977). DNA–DNA hybridization was carried out as described by De Ley et al. (1970) with the modification described by Huß et al. (1983) and Escara & Hutton (1980). Renaturation rates were computed with the program TRANSFER.BAS (Jahnke, 1992). DNA–DNA relatedness was tested [in 2x SSC plus 10 % (v/v) DMSO at 68 °C] among strain OK2T, P. rhizosphaerae LMG 21640T and P. graminis DSM 11363T. The results of DNA–DNA hybridization showed relatedness of 26·2 % between strain OK2T and P. rhizosphaerae LMG 21640T and 48·7 % between strain OK2T and P. graminis DSM 11363T. These results indicate that strain OK2T does not belong to either of these species when the recommendation of a threshold value of 70 % DNA–DNA relatedness for definition of species is considered (Wayne et al., 1987).
Therefore, on the basis of phylogenetic, chemotaxonomic and phenotypic data, isolate OK2T should be classified as representing a novel species, for which we propose the name Pseudomonas lutea sp. nov.
Description of Pseudomonas lutea sp. nov.
Pseudomonas lutea (lu'te.a. L. fem. adj. lutea yellow, referring to the yellowish pigment produced by this bacterium).
Gram-negative, strictly aerobic, non-spore-forming, motile, rod-shaped cells, 1·2–1·6 µm long and 0·7–0·8 µm in diameter. Colonies on YED are circular convex, yellow, translucent and usually 1–2 mm in diameter within 2 days growth at 25 °C. Able to oxidize glucose in medium containing ammonium nitrate as nitrogen source, but unable to ferment glucose in the same medium. Produces catalase and does not produce oxidase, gelatinase, caseinase, urease, arginine dehydrolase, tryptophan deaminase, 
-galactosidase, indole or H2S. Aesculin is hydrolysed. Utilizes L-arabinose, D-arabinose, D-xylose, ribose, mannose, galactose, D-fructose, L-lyxose, D-fucose, L-fucose, melibiose, inositol, mannitol, adonitol, glycerol, D-arabitol, L-arabitol, xylitol, caprate, malate, gluconate, 2-ketogluconate and citrate as sole carbon sources. Does not utilize L-xylose, L-sorbose, methyl -xyloside, methyl 
-D-mannoside, methyl -D-glucoside, L-rhamnose, amygdalin, arbutin, salicin, cellobiose, lactose, sucrose, trehalose, inulin, melezitose, D-raffinose, starch, glycogen, erythritol, sorbitol, dulcitol, N-acetylglucosamine, maltose, -gentiobiose, D-turanose, D-tagatose, adipate, 5-ketogluconate or phenylacetate.
The type strain, OK2T (=LMG 21974T=CECT 5822T), has a DNA G+C content of 59·3 mol%.
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