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Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54 (2004), 1203-1207; DOI  10.1099/ijs.0.03016-0
© 2004 International Union of Microbiological Societies

Hydrocarboniphaga effusa gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the {gamma}-Proteobacteria active in alkane and aromatic hydrocarbon degradation

Norberto J. Palleroni, Ava M. Port, Hung-Kuang Chang and Gerben J. Zylstra

Biotechnology Center for Agriculture and the Environment, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8520, USA

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Gerben J. Zylstra
zylstra{at}aesop.rutgers.edu


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Novel alkane-degrading strains of bacteria were isolated from soil contaminated with fuel oil from a leaking underground tank in New Jersey, USA. Two phenotypically similar strains (designated AP102 and AP103T) possessed 16S rRNA sequences unique among the majority of known hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria. The 16S rRNA sequences showed a moderate but distant relationship to the genus Nevskia and a substantial similarity to strains that had previously been isolated for growth on phenol (in Japan) and on toluene (in Canada) by other researchers. The hydrocarbon-degrading strains from Japan, Canada and New Jersey showed no resemblance to the typical morphology of Nevskia but did share a striking similarity among themselves in cell morphology, in the unusual appearance of colonies on various solid media and in various physiological properties. A full taxonomic analysis was performed, including DNA–DNA hybridization and nutritional screening with 117 organic compounds as sole sources of carbon and energy. The strains are active in the degradation of important environmental pollutants, and their phenotypic, physiological, metabolic and genomic properties suggest that they are members of a novel taxon in the {gamma}-Proteobacteria, for which the name Hydrocarboniphaga gen. nov. is proposed, with the single species Hydrocarboniphaga effusa sp. nov. The type strain is AP103T (=ATCC BAA-332T=DSM 16095T).

Published online ahead of print on 14 May 2004 as DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.03016-0.

The GenBank accession numbers for the 16S rRNA gene sequences of strains AP102 and AP103T are AY363244 and AY363245, respectively.


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Aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons are widely prevalent in the environment, the products of natural chemical and physical processes as well as a wide variety of human activities. In addition to natural oil seeps, petroleum and its derivatives are spread throughout the environment via the retrieval, transport, refining and use of fossil fuels, resulting in environmental pollution. It is not surprising therefore that some micro-organisms have adapted to utilize hydrocarbons as their sole sources of carbon and energy for growth. For instance, bacteria of many different genera are known to have the ability for aerobic and anaerobic microbial processes of alkane metabolism.

The four strains of bacteria described here were present in natural materials contaminated with hydrocarbons, and were isolated in three laboratories located distantly from one another. The strains represent a species belonging to the {gamma}-Proteobacteria, with a moderate 16S rRNA sequence similarity to the genus Nevskia. This paper gives a description of their properties, from which it is concluded that they are representative of a new genus that we propose to name Hydrocarboniphaga gen. nov. The genomic similarities among the strains suggest that they constitute a single species, which we name Hydrocarboniphaga effusa sp. nov.


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Bacterial strains and culture media.
Strains AP102 and AP103T were isolated from a soil sample from New Jersey contaminated with heavy fuel oil through the classic enrichment culture technique (Rosenberg, 1992Go), with dodecane provided in the gas phase as the sole carbon source. For the work described below, only strain AP103T was examined, because the two strains had the same general phenotypic properties and their 16S rRNA genes have nearly identical sequences. Strain LX1 was isolated from a compost biofilter in Canada from a bacterial population active in toluene degradation (Juteau et al., 1999Go). Strains rJ4 and rJ5 were obtained from a Japanese activated sludge, in an enrichment using phenol as the sole carbon source (Watanabe et al., 1999Go).

The complex media used in our work were trypticase soy agar (Difco), nutrient agar (Difco) and brain heart infusion agar (Difco). The chemically defined medium used in the nutritional screening was described by Palleroni & Doudoroff (1972)Go and Palleroni (1984)Go.

Characterization of the strains
Morphological observations.
Microscopic observations were made and photomicrographs taken with a Leitz Ortholux II microscope with phase-contrast optics. Staining of flagella followed the method of Leifson (1954)Go.

Physiological characterization.
Denitrification was determined as described by Stanier et al. (1966)Go. The method of Sierra (1957)Go was followed for the determination of lipase (Tween 80 hydrolysis) and gelatinase production was tested according to the method of Skerman (1967)Go. Nutritional screening was performed according to Stanier et al. (1966)Go, using the chemically defined medium of Palleroni & Doudoroff (1972)Go. Carbon substrates were added from filter-sterilized stock solutions to a final concentration of 0·1 %. Some substrates (alkanes, phenol) were supplied in the gas phase using small tubes with a cotton wick and sealing the plate with Parafilm.

DNA extraction and purification.
The procedure of Marmur (1961)Go was followed for the extraction and purification of DNA used in the determination of DNA base composition and in DNA–DNA hybridization experiments.

Determination of DNA base composition and of DNA–DNA relatedness.
Base composition of the purified DNA was determined by the method of Mesbah et al. (1989)Go. For DNA–DNA hybridization experiments, the S1 nuclease procedure described by Johnson (1994a)Go was followed. DNA samples of the reference strains were labelled using [3H]thymidine and the nick translation procedure, following the instructions given by the kit manufacturer (Invitrogen).

Amplification, cloning and sequencing of 16S rRNA genes.
Genomic DNA was isolated using a bacterial total genomic extraction kit (Clontech). The 16S rRNA genes were amplified using the 27f and 1522r primers by PCR under standard conditions as recommended by the supplier (Perkin Elmer). The PCR product was purified (Qiagen) and used directly in DNA sequencing reactions (Applied Biosystems) with the primers 27f, 357f, 704f, 926f, 1242f, 342r, 685r, 907r, 1392r and 1522r. Primer sequences are as described by Johnson (1994b)Go. The nucleotide sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL V in the Lasergene software package (DNAStar) and visually inspected. Phylogenetic analysis was performed with the MEGA version 2.1 software package (Kumar et al., 2001Go). Distances (according to the Kimura two-parameter model) and clustering with the neighbour-joining and maximum-parsimony methods were determined using bootstrap values based on 1000 replications.


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Morphology and colony characteristics
The four strains (AP103T, LX1, rJ4 and rJ5) were very similar in their basic morphological characteristics. The cells were small, Gram-negative rods, 0·75–0·85x1·5–2 µm (mean 0·8x1·2 µm) in size, occurring singly or rarely in short chains. They were motile by means of a single flagellum of polar, subpolar or, more rarely, lateral insertion (Fig. 1Go). Motility was moderate, usually limited to a few cells in the suspension.



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  		Fig. 1. Colonies of strain AP103T. (a) Young colonies. (b) Appearance of most colonies near the edge, after 4–5 days of incubation at 28 °C while growing on minimal medium at the expense of n-dodecane. (c) Flat variant colony growing at the edge of a normal colony, showing details of the edge. Bar, 5 mm.

 
Colonies on different agar media were of irregular shape and smooth when small, but later they became circular, with a wrinkled and folded dome at the centre and a thin margin of somewhat irregular border. The wrinkled appearance appears to be due to the presence of an extracellular product, possibly identical to a capsular material that prevented cell-to-cell contact in dense areas of wet mounts (Fig. 2Go). The chemical nature of this material has not been investigated.



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  		Fig. 2. Cells of strain AP103T. (a) Phase-contrast. (b–d) Details of flagellar insertion: polar (predominating type) (b), subpolar (c), lateral (d). Bar, 5 µm.

 
The colonies were convex with flat edges, where the cells tended to swarm on the agar surface – hence the specific name effusa. Flat colonies composed of cells that swarmed more extensively were produced spontaneously. The extent of swarming varied with the carbon source when the cells were growing on the chemically defined medium. Under these conditions, the production of the flat colony type was relatively common, and a reversion to the normal form was not observed. Twitching motility as the cause of swarming was not investigated.

Physiological properties
The four strains were absolutely aerobic. The optimal temperature of growth was about 28 °C, with no significant growth seen above about 35 °C. All strains grew on complex media, such as trypticase soy agar, LB medium, nutrient agar and brain heart infusion agar, although growth on the last three media was much slower than on the first. However, the viability of the cells declined rapidly on trypticase soy agar. Viability was considerably longer on a minimal medium recommended for Pseudomonas (Palleroni & Doudoroff, 1972Go; Palleroni, 1984Go) when supplemented with each of a number of carbon sources (see below). Growth on this medium also indicates that organic growth factors are not required.

Ammonium salts or nitrate could be used as nitrogen sources. Denitrification was negative, lipase (Tween 80 hydrolysis) was positive (strains AP103T and LX1 gave a stronger reaction) and gelatinase was positive for AP103T and LX1 and very weak for rJ4 and rJ5. The four strains were sensitive to ampicillin, tetracycline and kanamycin and moderately sensitive to chloramphenicol.

Nutritional spectra are given below under the species description. Table 1Go summarizes the results obtained with additional substrates that are not utilized by all the strains and are therefore of interest for typing purposes. It is of note that the strains from Japan (rJ4 and rJ5) were nutritionally more versatile, because they grew at the expense of phenol and a number of carbohydrates, among them glucose and saccharides of glucose. Strains AP103T and LX1 were negative for these properties. Growth on sucrose by the latter was weak, presumably due to the utilization of the fructose moiety only. An additional difference was seen in the intensities of the gelatinase and lipase (Tween 80 hydrolysis) reactions, which were stronger for AP103T and LX1 than for rJ4 and rJ5.


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  		Table 1. Differences in nutritional properties among the strains

+, Growth; –, no growth; ±, faint growth after a longer incubation time.

 
DNA base composition and DNA–DNA hybridization experiments
The DNA base composition of strain AP103T was 60 mol% and that of strain rJ5 was 61 mol%. On the basis of these values, and including formamide in the reaction mixture (25 µl in a total volume of 110 µl), the reannealing temperature in the DNA–DNA hybridization experiments was set as 66·3 °C. In these experiments, the DNA–DNA relatedness of AP103T, LX1, rJ4 and rJ5 to AP103T was 100, 85, 84 and 78 %, respectively, and to rJ5 was 80, 90, 92 and 100 %, respectively.

Phylogenetic analysis
Near-complete (>1450 nt) 16S rRNA gene sequences were determined for AP103T and AP102. A comparison of the 16S rRNA gene sequences for AP103T, AP102, rJ4, rJ5 and LX1 revealed that they differed in only six locations out of the 1403 positions that were shared among all five sequences. The closest characterized 16S rRNA gene sequence relatives in the GenBank database are those for Nevskia ramosa (Sturmeyer et al., 1998Go). The three known N. ramosa 16S rRNA gene sequences share approximately 90 % similarity to the five H. effusa sequences. Interestingly, the H. effusa and N. ramosa 16S rRNA sequences clustered together and represent a deeply branching lineage in the Xanthomonadaceae (Fig. 3Go).



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  		Fig. 3. Unrooted neighbour-joining dendrogram derived from 16S rRNA gene sequences showing phylogenetic relationships of AP103T and other Hydrocarboniphaga effusa strains, Nevskia ramosa strains and other representative strains in the Xanthomonadaceae. Bootstrap percentages at each node indicate the occurrence in 1000 bootstrapped trees. Bar, genetic distance of 0·02.

 
Summary
The strains described in this communication are representative of a new genus, for which we propose the name Hydrocarboniphaga, with the single species Hydrocarboniphaga effusa. The closest known relative based on 16S rRNA sequence similarity (about 90 %) is Nevskia in the {gamma}-Proteobacteria. However, Hydrocarboniphaga strains can easily be distinguished from Nevskia strains due to the latter's' propensity to form rosette-like colonies at air–water interfaces (Sturmeyer et al., 1998Go). There is also a significant difference in the G+C content of strains of Nevskia (about 68 mol%) and Hydrocarboniphaga (60 mol%) (Sturmeyer et al., 1998Go). Nutritionally, Hydrocarboniphaga strains grow on malate and succinate but not acetate, whereas Nevskia strains do not grow on malate or succinate and do grow on acetate (Sturmeyer et al., 1998Go).

Although the four strains characterized here were all isolated for their ability to grow on hydrocarbons, 16S rRNA gene sequence comparisons indicate that H. effusa has a wide habitat. Three H. effusa-like strains were isolated from sediment from Lake Biwa (Japan) with selection for antibiotic resistance (Miyake et al., 2003Go; AB074678, AB074679 and AB074686 in Fig. 3Go). Two 16S rRNA gene sequences from uncultured micro-organisms are included in the dendrogram in Fig. 3Go. One of these, AY226285, is from a deep-sea hypersaline anoxic basin in the Mediterranean Sea and the other, AB074618, is from a microbial community in the aposymbiotic pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum (Nakabachi et al., 2003Go).

Description of Hydrocarboniphaga gen. nov.
Hydrocarboniphaga (Hy.dro.car'bon.i.pha.ga. N.L. n. hydrocarbonum hydrocarbon; Gr. n. phagos eater, devourer; N.L. fem. n. Hydrocarboniphaga eater of hydrocarbons).

Gram-negative rods, 0·75–0·85x1·5–2 µm (mean 0·8x1·2 µm), occurring singly or rarely in short chains, motile by means of a single flagellum of polar or subpolar insertion (Fig. 1Go). On solid culture media, particularly on those chemically defined, swarming cells at the border cover a large area. The cells are absolutely aerobic and grow well on complex media and on chemically defined media, indicating that they do not require organic growth factors. Ammonium salts or nitrate can be used as nitrogen sources. Denitrification is negative. Gelatinase and lipase (Tween 80 hydrolysis) are positive. The G+C content of the DNA is 60–61 mol% (determined by HPLC). The type and only species is Hydrocarboniphaga effusa.

Description of Hydrocarboniphaga effusa sp. nov.
Hydrocarboniphaga effusa (ef.fu'sa. L. adj. effusa spreading, diffuse, making reference to the spreading tendency of colonies growing on minimal agar medium).

General morphology and physiological characteristics are given above under the genus description. All strains grow on aliphatic hydrocarbons from C6 to C19, amyl alcohol, L-arginine, 2,3-butylene glycol, erythritol, ethanol, fumarate, L-glutamate, L-isoleucine, DL-lactate, L-leucine, L-malate, mannitol, L-phenylalanine, propylene glycol, pyruvate, L-rhamnose, succinate and L-valine. Growth on butyrate, caprate, caproate and caprylate is slow and very poor. None of the strains uses the following for growth: acetate, aconitate, adipate, L-alanine, {alpha}-aminobutyrate, {delta}-aminolaevulinate, amygdalin, {alpha}-amylamine, anthranilate, arbutin, benzoate, betaine, n-butanol, L-citrulline, creatine, creatinine, dipicolinate, dulcitol, ethylene glycol, D-fucose, galactose, gluconate, glucosamine, glucuronate, histamine, m-, o or p-hydroxybenzoate, 2-ketogluconate, 2-ketogulonate, 2-propanol, L-kynurenine, L-lysine, L-lyxose, malonate, maltose, D- or L-mandelate, melibiose, methyl {alpha}-glucoside, methyl {alpha}-mannoside, mucate, naphthalene, nicotinate, norleucine, norvaline, pantothenate, L-proline, quinate, saccharate, sarcosine, sebacate, L-serine, sorbose, spermine, D-, meso- or L-tartrate, terephthalate, L-threonine, o-, m- or p-toluate, turanose or xylitol.

The type strain is AP103T (=ATCC BAA-332T=DSM 16095T).


   ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 
We are grateful to M. Häggblom and B. Song for their help in the determination of the G+C base composition and helpful discussion and M. Murillo for technical assistance with DNA sequencing. We thank K. Watanabe, D. Rho and P. Juteau for provision of bacterial strains. This work was supported by NSF grant CHE-9810248.


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