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1 Dipartimento di Scienze degli Alimenti, Sezione di Tecnologie e Biotecnologie degli Alimenti, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
2 Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
3 Dipartimento Scientifico e Tecnologico, Università degli Studi di Verona, Verona, Italy
4 Dipartimento di Protezione delle Piante e Microbiologia Applicata, Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy
Correspondence
Marco Gobbetti
gobbetti{at}agr.uniba.it
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(L-lysL-serL-Ala2) type. Physiological, biochemical and genotypic data, as well as results of DNADNA hybridization of genomic DNA with one of the closest phylogenetic relatives, L. durianis (34·3 %), indicated that strain CS1T represents a novel species of the genus Lactobacillus for which the name Lactobacillus rossii sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of this species is CS1T (=ATCC BAA-822T=DSM 15814T).
Published online ahead of print on 19 July 2004 as DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63075-0.
The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of L. rossii CS1T is AJ564009.
Figures showing analysis of L. rossii species-specific PCR and RAPD patterns are available as supplementary material in IJSEM Online.
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During a study on the production of antimicrobial substances by sourdough LAB, a bacteriocinogenic strain was isolated that could not be assigned to a hitherto-known species by the API 50 CH system and 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. A species-specific primer pair was designed on the basis of its 16S rRNA gene and five additional isolates from different Italian wheat sourdoughs were found to show high similarity to this isolate. This study presents phenotypic and genotypic evidence to describe these strains as a novel Lactobacillus species, for which we propose the name Lactobacillus rossii sp. nov.
Strains CS1T, CR20, CF51, CD76, CI35 and CM17 were isolated from wheat sourdoughs of central Italy. Samples were subjected to serial dilution and plated onto modified de ManRogosaSharpe medium (mMRS) (maltose and fresh yeast extract were added at 1 and 10 %, respectively, and the final pH was adjusted to 5·6) agar as described by Corsetti et al. (2001)
. The above strains were routinely grown at 30 °C for 24 h and maintained at 80 °C in glycerol stocks. The purity of the cultures was checked microscopically and by preparing streak cultures. Reference strains were grown on regular MRS (Difco) or mMRS and incubated at the temperature recommended by the respective strain culture collection. Gram determination was performed by Gram staining (Merck) and Gregersen's KOH method (Gregersen, 1978
). Cell morphology was studied with a phase-contrast optical microscope (Leitz Laborlux S). Catalase activity was determined by transferring fresh colonies from mMRS agar to a glass slide and adding 5 % H2O2. Growth at 15 and 45 °C was tested in mMRS broth. CO2 production was detected in sourdough bacteria broth (Kline & Sugihara, 1971
) containing glucose in place of maltose and supplemented with 10 % gelatin powder in test tubes sealed with 2 % sterile molten agar. Arginine hydrolysis was determined according to the method of Sharpe (1979)
. The isomeric type of lactate in fermented broth was determined enzymically using the DL-lactate test kit (Boehringer). A fermentation profile was determined using the API 50 CH System (bioMérieux). The peptidoglycan structure of the cell wall was determined at the DSMZ (Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen, Braunschweig, Germany) by one-dimensional and two-dimensional TLC (Schleifer & Kandler, 1972
) followed by derivatization (MacKenzie, 1987
). The approximate molar amino acid ratio was determined by GC as reported by Groth et al. (1996)
. The N terminus of the interpeptide bridge was determined as reported by Schleifer (1985)
. For the preparation of genomic DNA for PCR assays, cells from 2 ml of overnight cultures were harvested and DNA was extracted according to the method of De Los Reyes-Gavilán et al. (1992)
. The concentration and purity of DNA was assayed by determining A260 and A280, as described by Sambrook et al. (1989)
. 16S rRNA gene amplification was performed using the LacbF/LacbR primer pair following the method of Corsetti et al. (2004)
. PCR products were purified using the Concert Rapid PCR Purification System (Gibco). DNA sequencing reactions were performed by MWG Biotech AG. In order to determine the phylogenetic placement of strain CS1T, the nearly complete 16S rRNA gene sequences of 17 Lactobacillus species, most of them often reported as typical organisms in sourdough fermentation (Vogel et al., 1999
; Müller et al., 2000
; Corsetti et al., 2003
), were aligned using the CLUSTAL W program (Thompson et al., 1994
) and phylogenetic analysis was performed with MEGA version 2.1 (Kumar et al., 2001
): the distance matrix was obtained with the Kimura two-parameter formula and tree reconstruction with neighbour-joining clustering. An analysis of the robustness of the tree was obtained by bootstrap analysis with 1000 replicates. A second distance-matrix analysis was performed using the program TREECON (van de Peer & de Wachter, 1994
) with the GaltierGouy model as the distance formula and neighbour joining as the clustering option. A maximum-parsimony method was also applied with default options as implemented in PHYLIP DNAPARS (Felsenstein, 1993
). A maximum-likelihood analysis was performed with the DNAML program in the PHYLIP software package (Felsenstein, 1993
). The G+C content of the DNA (mol%) of strain CS1T was determined at the DSMZ by an HPLC analytical method. DNA was isolated and purified by chromatography on hydroxyapatite according to the procedure of Cashion et al. (1977)
and was hydrolysed and dephosphorylated as reported by Mesbah et al. (1989)
. HPLC was carried out using the protocol described by Tamaoka & Komagata (1984)
. Wild-type phage lambda DNA was used as the standard (Mesbah et al., 1989
). The G+C content was determined according to the method of Mesbah et al. (1989)
. Since a 93 % identity value for 16S rRNA gene sequences is rather low, determination of DNA homology values was performed by the DSMZ between strain CS1T and the type strain of one of its closest phylogenetic relatives, Lactobacillus durianis. DNA was isolated and purified as for DNA base composition analysis. DNADNA hybridization was carried out as described by De Ley et al. (1970)
, with the modifications described by Huss et al. (1983)
and Escara & Hutton (1980)
, using a model 2600 spectrophotometer equipped with a model 2527-R thermoprogrammer and plotter (Gilford Instrument Laboratories). Renaturation rates were computed with the TRANSFER.BAS program of Jahnke (1992)
. Primers for the species-specific PCR assay were designed on regions of high sequence heterogeneity in the 16S rRNA gene sequence alignment of lactobacilli included in the phylogenetic tree (see Fig. 1
for corresponding accession numbers) plus another 19 Lactobacillus species (GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession nos M58811, M58821, D86517, D16551, AY204893, AY204892, AY204894, AF089108, X94229, AF243177, X76328, M58805, Y17362, M58802, Y17361, M58814, AJ002515, AJ306297 and D79211). The primers used were LrosF (5'-GTATCTGAGAGTAACTGTTCAGA-3') and LrosR (5'-AGGGAACGTCCGATCTCTCG-3') and PCR was performed using the same reaction volume and reaction mixture composition as described for amplification with the LacbF/LacbR primer pair (Corsetti et al., 2004
). The PCR programme comprised an initial template denaturation step for 4 min at 94 °C followed by 30 cycles of denaturation for 45 s at 94 °C, annealing for 30 s at 58 °C and extension for 45 s at 72 °C. The final extension step was for 7 min at 72 °C. To exclude clonal relatedness, four oligonucleotides, P1 (5'-ACGCGCCCT-3'), P4 (5'-CCGCAGCGTT-3'), P7 (5'-AGCAGCGTGG-3') (Corsetti et al., 2003
) and M13 (5'-GAGGGTGGCGGTTCT-3') (Stendid et al., 1994
), with arbitrarily chosen sequences, were used to examine the six L. rossii strains by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)-PCR. DNA amplification was carried out in 30 µl PCR mixture containing 12 µl Taq PCR Master Mix, 1 pmol primer, 1 µl template DNA (
25 ng DNA) and sterile distilled H2O. The PCR programme reported by Corsetti et al. (2003)
was used for primers P1, P4 and P7, whereas that reported by Zapparoli et al. (1998)
was used for primer M13.
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(L-lysL-serL-Ala2) type. Among Lactobacillus species this peptidoglycan type is only shown by Weissella minor (Hammes & Vogel, 1995
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Description of Lactobacillus rossii sp. nov.
Lactobacillus rossii (ros.si'i. N.L. gen. n. rossii of Rossi, to honour Professor Jone Rossi, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy, for her main contribution to dairy and sourdough microbiology).
Cells are Gram-positive rods of approximately 0·5x11·5 µm. Non-motile, non-spore-forming and occur singly, in pairs and in short chains. After growth for 3 days at 30 °C on mMRS agar plates, colonies are 11·5 mm in diameter, white, smooth and circular or convex. Microaerophilic. Catalase-negative. Growth is observed at 15 but not at 45 °C. Obligately heterofermentative. Ammonia is produced from arginine. Aesculin is not hydrolysed. Both D- and L-lactic acid are produced. Acid is produced from L-arabinose, ribose, D-glucose, D-fructose, N-acetylglucosamine and maltose. The majority of strains also ferment D-lyxose and weakly ferment galactose, D-mannose and gluconate. Some strains are able to ferment D-xylose and melibiose. Glycerol, erythritol, D-arabinose, L-xylose, adonitol, methyl
-xyloside, L-sorbose, rhamnose, dulcitol, inositol, mannitol, sorbitol, methyl
-D-mannoside, methyl
-D-glucoside, amygdalin, arbutin, salicin, cellobiose, lactose, sucrose, trehalose, inulin, melezitose, D-raffinose, amidon, glycogen, xylitol,
-gentibiose, D-turanose, D-tagatose, D- and L-fucose, D- and L-arabitol, and 2- and 5-ketogluconate are not fermented. Peptidoglycan structure is A3
(L-lysL-serL-Ala2) type. The DNA G+C content is 44·6 mol%. Isolated from wheat sourdough.
The type strain is CS1T (=ATCC BAA-822T=DSM 15814T).
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