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1 Institut für Bakteriologie, Mykologie und Hygiene, Veterinärmedizinische Universität, A-1210 Vienna, Austria
2 Institut für Angewandte Mikrobiologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
3 Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Universität Wien, A-1030 Vienna, Austria
Correspondence
Hans-Jürgen Busse
hans-juergen.busse{at}vu-wien.ac.at
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7c and/or 2-OH C15 : 0 iso), C18 : 1
7c and the presence of 3-OH C10 : 0, 3-OH C12 : 0 and 2-OH C12 : 0] were in agreement with identification of this strain as a member of the genus Pseudomonas. Physiological and biochemical characteristics and the results of genomic fingerprinting clearly differentiated strain C36T from its phylogenetic relative P. oleovorans DSM 1045T. Results from DNADNA hybridization showed that strain C36T represents a species that is distinct from P. oleovorans DSM 1045T. These data demonstrate that strain C36T represents a novel species of the genus Pseudomonas, for which the name Pseudomonas psychrotolerans sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is C36T (=LMG 21977T=DSM 15758T). Additionally, physiological, biochemical, chemotaxonomic and genomic fingerprints indicate that P. oleovorans ATCC 29347 may not be a member of the species P. oleovorans sensu stricto.
Published online ahead of print on 4 June 2004 as DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.03024-0.
The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of Pseudomonas psychrotolerans C36T is AJ575816.
A table giving fatty acid contents and figures showing two-dimensional TLC of polar lipids and SDS-PAGE analysis of strains C36T, C37 and C39 and related strains are available as supplementary material in IJSEM Online.
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Taxonomic characterization of three yellow-pigmented strains (C36T, C37 and C39), of which the representative strain, C36T, was preliminarily identified as a member of the genus Pseudomonas, is reported.
Strains C36T and C37 were isolated from water under a dog's cage and strain C39 was isolated from a strip of metal under the treatment table after cultivation on PYE agar (pH 7·2), which contained (l1): 3·0 g peptone from casein, 3·0 g yeast extract and 15·0 g agar. The isolates were subcultivated on PYE agar at 28 °C for 48 h. Pseudomonas oleovorans DSM 1045T and P. oleovorans ATCC 29347 were kindly provided by G. Schroll, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
The 16S rRNA gene was amplified and analysed as described previously (Zlamala et al., 2002
). The 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain C36T was a continuous stretch of 1456 nt. Sequence comparisons (ungapped) by using FASTA3 (Pearson & Lipman, 1988
) indicated that the closest relative of strain C36T is P. oleovorans DSM 1045T (99·5 % sequence similarity). Moderate sequence similarities (96·096·8 %) were found to other selected species of the genus Pseudomonas. Phylogenetic calculations supported the high degree of relatedness between strain C36T and P. oleovorans DSM 1045T (Fig. 1
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The quinone system and polyamine pattern of strains C36T and C39 were in excellent agreement with the characteristics of the genus Pseudomonas sensu stricto (Oyaizu & Komagata, 1983
; Busse & Auling, 1988
; Auling et al., 1991
). The fatty acid profile of strains C36T, C37 and C39 showed the same major characteristics as those of P. oleovorans DSM 1045T and P. oleovorans ATCC 29347 (see Supplementary Table, available in IJSEM Online). However, our isolates differed from P. oleovorans strains DSM 1045T and ATCC 29347 in terms of quantitative differences of certain acids, such as summed feature 3 (C16 : 1
7c and/or 2-OH C15 : 0 iso), C16 : 0 and C18 : 1
7c. Differentiation between P. oleovorans DSM 1045T and P. oleovorans ATCC 29347 was possible by examining differences in the relative amounts of 2-OH C12 : 0, summed feature 3, C16 : 0 and C18 : 1
7c (see Supplementary Table in IJSEM Online).
Polar lipid profiles are relatively conserved characteristics with varying specificity, depending on the taxon. Sometimes, a polar lipid profile contains a genus- or family-specific characteristic, such as sphingoglycolipid in species of the family Sphingomonadaceae, but the complete profile is specific for a species or very closely related species (Busse et al., 1999
). The polar lipid profiles of strains C36T (see Supplementary Fig. A in IJSEM Online) and C39 (results not shown) were identical. Their polar lipid profiles shared a high degree of similarity with that of P. oleovorans DSM 1045T. However, strains C36T and C39 could be distinguished clearly from P. oleovorans DSM 1045T by the presence of two yellow pigment spots in their chromatograms. Differentiation between P. oleovorans DSM 1045T and P. oleovorans ATCC 29347 was possible by the absence of phosphatidylcholine in P. oleovorans ATCC 29347 (see Supplementary Fig. A in IJSEM Online).
SDS-PAGE was performed with strains C36T, C37, C39, P. oleovorans DSM 1045T and P. oleovorans ATCC 29347 as described previously (Altenburger et al., 1996
). Comparisons of the protein patterns demonstrated that strains C36T, C37 and C39 are almost indistinguishable and thus they can be considered to be members of a single species. No significant similarities were detected between the protein patterns of these three isolates and those of P. oleovorans DSM 1045T and P. oleovorans ATCC 29347. However, the protein patterns could be used to distinguish between P. oleovorans strains DSM 1045T and ATCC 29347 (see Supplementary Fig. B in IJSEM Online).
Genomic fingerprints of strains C36T, C37 and C39 obtained after enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus sequence-based PCR (ERIC-PCR) (Wieser & Busse, 2000
) revealed that they shared at least two of the three major bands, indicating that the three strains are highly related. No similarities were observed between the fingerprints of our isolates and those of P. oleovorans DSM 1045T and P. oleovorans ATCC 29347 (Fig. 2
). Thus, the ERIC-PCR-generated fingerprints are in agreement with our other findings and indicate that our three isolates are members of a novel, so far unrecognized, single species. DNADNA hybridizations between strain C36T and P. oleovorans DSM 1045T, which were performed according to Ziemke et al. (1998)
and Kämpfer et al. (2003)
, showed 6 and 8 % (reciprocal values) relatedness. These values demonstrate unambiguously that the two strains belong to different species.
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Strains C36T, C37 and C39 are strikingly homogeneous in terms of their protein patterns, ERIC-PCR-generated genomic fingerprints and physiological traits and thus they can be considered to be members of a single species. They can be distinguished from the two strains of P. oleovorans by genomic fingerprints, protein patterns, fatty acid composition, polar lipid profiles and numerous physiological characteristics. Data from DNADNA hybridization between strain C36T and P. oleovorans DSM 1045T demonstrate that they belong to different species. Based on these results, it is concluded that our isolates represent a novel species of the genus Pseudomonas, for which the name Pseudomonas psychrotolerans sp. nov. is proposed. The species description is given below.
Based on clearly differing protein patterns after SDS-PAGE, ERIC-PCR-generated fingerprints and significant differences in physiological characteristics, as well as in fatty acid and polar lipid profiles, it is assumed that P. oleovorans DSM 1045T and P. oleovorans ATCC 29347 do not belong to a single species. Our assumption is supported by comparison of the 16S rRNA gene sequence of P. oleovorans ATCC 29347 (GenBank accession no. AJ249825), which has been published recently (van Beilen et al., 2001
). Similarity values demonstrate that it is related closely to the 16S rRNA gene sequence of Pseudomonas plecoglossicida FPC 951T (99·9 % sequence similarity) and to sequences of other members of the Pseudomonas putida lineage (Moore et al., 1996
), including Pseudomonas monteilii CIP 104883T (99·7 %), Pseudomonas mosselii CIP 105259T (99·4 %) and P. putida DSM 291T (98·9 %). In contrast, P. oleovorans ATCC 29347 shares only 97·5 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with P. oleovorans DSM 1045T. Thus, it is suggested that P. oleovorans ATCC 29347 might be a strain of P. plecoglossicida, although DNADNA hybridization studies or comparison of genomic fingerprints will be necessary to clarify its taxonomic status.
Description of Pseudomonas psychrotolerans sp. nov.
Pseudomonas psychrotolerans (psy.chro.to'ler.ans. Gr. adj. psychros cold; L. pres. part. tolerans tolerating; N.L. part. adj. psychrotolerans cold-tolerating).
Cells are Gram-negative, non-spore-forming rods with slightly exaggerated poles, 0·50·7x1·51·8 µm. Cells generally occur singly, but sometimes in pairs. Oxidase-negative and catalase-positive. Growth occurs under aerobic and microaerobic, but not anaerobic, conditions. Motility is observed by light microscopy. Good growth occurs on PYE agar, TSA, R2A and MacConkey agar, on PYE agar supplemented with 15 % (w/v) NaCl and at 437 °C on PYE agar. No growth occurs at 42 °C. On PYE agar, yellow, irregular, leathery, dry, wrinkled colonies form within 48 h, with a diameter of approximately 15 mm. After 35 days, colonies can be up to 8 mm in diameter. The quinone system of strain C36T consists of Q-9 (96 %) and Q-8 (4 %). Polyamine pattern consists of the major compounds putrescine and spermidine [98·8 and 18·5 µmol (g dry wt)1, respectively] and minor amounts of spermine and diaminopropane [0·7 and 0·3 µmol (g dry wt)1, respectively]. Predominant polar lipids are diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylcholine. Additionally, moderate amounts of an unidentified phospholipid and an unknown lipid are present, as well as small amounts of an unidentified aminophospholipid and an unknown lipid. Fatty acid composition of strain C36T is as follows: C18 : 1
7c (49·1 %), C16 : 0 (22·6 %), summed feature 3 (C16 : 1
7c and/or 2-OH C15 : 0 iso; 16·9 %), C12 : 0 (4·5 %), 3-OH C12 : 0 (3·0 %), 3-OH C10 : 0 (2·6 %) and 2-OH C12 : 0 (1·8 %). Other characteristics are listed in Table 1
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The type strain is C36T (=LMG 21977T=DSM 15758T). Reference strains are C37 and C39. Strains C36T and C37 were isolated from water under a dog's cage and C39 was isolated from a strip of metal under the treatment table in the Medical Clinic for Small Animals, University for Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria.
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