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1 Institut Français du Pétrole, 1 et 4, avenue de Bois Préau, F-92852 Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, France
2 UMR 6197, Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, IFREMER and Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, Technopôle Brest-Iroise, Place Nicolas Copernic, F-29280 Plouzané, France
3 DSMZ – Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen, Mascheroder Weg 1b, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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Christian Jeanthon
christian.jeanthon{at}univ-brest.fr
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The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain BN3T is AY570690.
Growth curves for strain BN3T at different temperatures and NaCl concentrations are available as supplementary material in IJSEM Online.
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for review; Orphan et al., 2000; Takahata et al., 2000; Bonch-Osmolovskaya et al., 2003). In these extreme ecosystems, moderately thermophilic to hyperthermophilic strains have attracted particular attention and many novel bacterial and archaeal fermentative strains have been described in the last century (Magot et al., 2000). In recent years, novel fermentative thermophiles belonging to the Thermotogales (Takahata et al., 2001; L'Haridon et al., 2001, 2002; Miranda-Tello et al., 2004), Thermococcales (Miroshnichenko et al., 2001) and Firmicutes (Fardeau et al., 2000, 2004; Miranda-Tello et al., 2003) have been characterized.
Some mesophilic bacteria have also been isolated from low-temperature oilfields, and most of them belong to the Firmicutes (Magot et al., 1997b; Ravot et al., 1997, 1999). A free-living moderately halophilic member of the phylum ‘Spirochaetes’, Spirochaeta smaragdinae, has also been isolated from an African oilfield (Magot et al., 1997a). Fermentative bacteria isolated from oilfields are able to ferment sugars, organic acids or amino acids and most of them share the ability to reduce elemental sulfur or thiosulfate to hydrogen sulfide (Magot et al., 2000). The ecological significance of this feature is not clear but it could be a way to overcome hydrogen, a potent inhibitor of growth produced during fermentation.
On the basis of the comparative analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences (Paster et al., 1994), members of the genus Bacteroides form a relatively coherent cluster within the phylum Cytophaga–Flexibacter–Bacteroides. In the latest edition of Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, this phylum is referred as the phylum ‘Bacteroidetes’, and is divided into three classes, the ‘Bacteroidetes’, the ‘Flavobacteria’ and the ‘Sphingobacteria’ (Garrity & Holt, 2001). The genus Bacteroides and phylogenetically closely related members of genera Porphyromonas, Dysgonomonas and Tannerella are strictly anaerobic, Gram-negative, chemoheterotrophic bacteria that have been predominantly isolated from oral cavities, the gastrointestinal tract and rumen of warm-blooded animals and other body cavities of humans and animals (Shah & Collins, 1988, 1989; Hofstad et al., 2000; Sakamoto et al., 2002). We isolated a mesophilic fermentative sulfur-reducing bacterium affiliated to the phylum ‘Bacteroidetes’ from a biodegraded oil reservoir in Canada. To our knowledge, no members of this phylum have been so far isolated from oil reservoirs.
The production water sample used to isolate the novel strain was collected in January 2001 from the Pelican Lake oilfield, which is located in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (Canada). The reservoir, located at 400 m depth, has an in situ fluid temperature of about 18–20 °C. The main productive zone is the Wabiskaw formation, a laterally continuous sandstone which is part of the lower cretaceous Mannville Group of Alberta. The heavy oils from Pelican Lake field are derived from the same source rock, deposited in a marine environment, but have undergone varying degrees of biodegradation leading to heavy viscous oils ranging from 9 to 15° API (Riediger et al., 1999). Samples were taken through sampling valves located on the well head into sterile 1 litre steel bottles, after flushing the lines for at least 15 min. The bottles were filled completely with the oil/water/gas mixture under pressure and sealed to maintain anoxic conditions. The bottles were kept at 4 °C during their transport back to the laboratory. Water was separated from crude oil by decantation at room temperature and then transferred into vials that were sealed with butyl rubber stoppers. The vials containing production waters, with an overlying oil phase, were stored at 4 °C until use.
Enrichment and isolation were performed in the nitrate broth medium (Difco) generally used for the enumeration of heterotrophic denitrifying bacteria. Single colonies were isolated by using the roll-tube technique (Hungate, 1969) with the same medium solidified with 2 % (w/v) purified agar (Difco). The YTS medium used as basal medium contained, per litre of distilled water: 1·0 g NaCl, 0·4 g MgCl2.6H2O, 0·075 g CaCl2, 0·25 g NH4Cl, 0·2 g KH2PO4, 0·5 g KCl, 1 g yeast extract, 3 g tryptone, 2 g sulfur and 0·5 mg resazurin. The YTS medium was prepared under strictly anoxic conditions according to Widdel & Bak (1992) and was supplemented with NaHCO3 (3·4 g l–1), 1 ml vitamin solution l–1 (Widdel & Bak, 1992) and 1 ml trace element solution l–1 (Widdel & Bak, 1992). Sodium sulfide (1·5 mM) was used as reducing agent. GYTS medium, consisting of YTS medium supplemented with glucose (20 mM), was used routinely to grow the novel isolate and to study its physiology. The medium was dispensed into 120 ml vials (with 40 ml medium) that were sealed with butyl rubber stoppers and screw caps. The final pH was 7·2 and the gas phase was N2/CO2 (80 : 20, v/v).
Physiological studies were performed with agitation. To determine the NaCl range for growth, NaCl concentrations were varied while maintaining the concentrations of other inorganic components. Sugars, organic acids and alcohols were tested as possible carbon sources in the YTS medium. Possible electron acceptors were tested in the GYTS medium without sulfur.
Growth was monitored by removing samples from culture vessels and measuring the OD600 using a Shimadzu UV-1601 spectrophotometer. Sulfide production was quantified colorimetrically by the methylene blue method (Cline, 1969). Acetate, lactate and ethanol were assayed by using enzymic detection kits (R-biopharm). Hydrogen and CO2 in the headspace of the vials were measured with a gas chromatograph (Varian 3800) equipped with a Porapak Q (80/100 mesh; Millipore) steel column and a thermal conductivity detector. Temperatures for the column, injection port and detector were 35, 110 and 130 °C, respectively. The carrier gas was helium at a flow rate of 30 ml min–1. Determination of short-chain organic acids was performed by HPLC using a Hamilton PRP-X300 column [eluant, H2SO4 1 mM/acetonitrile (90 : 10, v/v); flow rate, 1·5 ml min–1; column temperature, 65 °C] and a UV detector at 210 nm. Nitrate and nitrite were measured by ionic chromatography (Metrohm) on a Metrosep Anion Dual 2 column (240x4·0 mm) equipped with a suppressor module (eluant, 1·8 mM Na2CO3, 1·7 mM NaHCO3; flow rate, 1 ml min–1; room temperature) and conductivity detection. Ammonium was detected by ionic chromatography (Metrohm) on a 250x4 mm Metrosep Cation 1-2 column (eluant, 4 mM tartaric acid, 1 mM dipicolinic acid; flow rate, 1 ml min–1; room temperature) and conductivity detection. An Olympus AX-70 microscope was routinely used for observation and to obtain photomicrographs. Cell morphology and flagellation were observed using a model JEM 100 CX II (JEOL) electron microscope with an acceleration voltage of 80 kV. For negative staining, 20 µl cell suspension fixed with 2 % (w/v) glutaraldehyde was dropped on Formvar/carbon-coated grids (400 mesh) and stained with 4 % (w/v) uranyl acetate.
Samples of formation water collected at the well head of a producing well in the Pelican Lake oilfield were used for the inoculation (10 %, v/v) of nitrate broth medium. After 3 weeks of incubation at 20 °C, most-probable number enumerations (triplicate tubes) indicated the presence of 105 cultivable denitrifiers ml–1. The last positive dilution was used to isolate the dominant cultivable species. After 4 weeks of incubation at 30 °C, several translucent colonies that developed in the solidified medium were randomly picked and subcultured in liquid medium. Analysis of the RFLP profiles of the 16S rRNA genes (Jeanthon et al., 1999) showed that all the patterns were identical. One strain, designated strain BN3T, was chosen for further characterization. Since weak growth was observed in nitrate broth medium, several media were tested to obtain higher growth yields. GYTS medium was finally routinely used to grow the novel isolate.
Cells were short rods, about 0·7–1x1·5–2 µm in size depending on the growth phase (shown in Supplementary Fig. A in IJSEM Online); some longer cells (0·5x4 µm) were observed in old cultures. The cells stained Gram-negative (Murray et al., 1994) and occurred singly or in pairs. They were non-motile and no flagella were observed by negative staining. No spores were formed.
Unless otherwise stated, two separate growth experiments were performed in duplicate in GYTS medium at 37 °C. Strain BN3T grew between 15 and 40 °C, with optimum growth at 37–40 °C (Supplementary Fig. B); no growth was observed at 10 or 45 °C. The isolate grew in the presence of NaCl concentrations up to 4 %, with optimum growth in the absence of NaCl (Supplementary Fig. C); no growth was observed at 5 % NaCl. Under the optimal conditions for growth in GYTS medium, the doubling time of the novel organism was around 110 min and the final growth concentration reached 1·5x109 cells ml–1.
Strain BN3T is a strictly anaerobic, chemo-organotrophic organism. Growth was prevented when air was used as the gas phase. No growth was observed in the absence of organic compounds. Tryptone was required for growth (no growth was observed in GYTS medium without tryptone). Yeast extract, glucose and sulfur stimulated growth (weak and slow growth was observed when one of these compounds was omitted from GYTS medium). When yeast extract, tryptone and elemental sulfur were present (medium YTS), strain BN3T fermented the following compounds: glucose, arabinose, galactose, maltose, mannitol, mannose, rhamnose, lactose, ribose, fructose, sucrose (all at 20 mM), cellobiose (10 g l–1), lactate (15 mM) and glycerol (10 mM). Acetate, hydrogen and CO2 were produced during glucose fermentation. Weak growth occurred with fumarate (10 mM), pyruvate (10 mM) and Casamino acids (5 g l–1). Acetate (15 mM), formate (40 mM), butyrate (10 mM), propionate (10 mM), methanol (30 mM), peptone (2 g l–1), ethanol (1 g l–1), propanol (1 g l–1), butanol (1 g l–1), toluene (1·5 mM), sorbose (20 mM) and cellulose (10 g l–1) were not used. Strain BN3T reduced elemental sulfur to H2S. Sulfide production started weakly in the exponential phase of growth and increased during the stationary phase; the final concentration of sulfide was dependent on the substrates used. Sulfide production exceeded 2 mM (as final concentration) when glucose, fructose, galactose, sucrose, mannose or ribose were added to the YTS medium. Sulfide production was lower than 2 mM when other substrates were used. Thiosulfate (20 mM), sulfate (20 mM) and cystine (2 g l–1) were not used as electron acceptors. Nitrate (10 mM) was used as electron acceptor and ammonium was formed as the result of nitrate reduction.
Respiratory lipoquinones and polar lipids were extracted from 100 mg freeze-dried cell material using the two-stage method described by Tindall (1990a, b). Respiratory quinones were extracted using methanol : hexane (Tindall, 1990a, b) and the polar lipids were extracted by adjusting the remaining methanol : 0·3 % aqueous NaCl phase (containing the cell debris) to give a chloroform : methanol : 0·3 % aqueous NaCl mixture (1 : 2 : 0·8, by vol.). The extraction solvent was stirred overnight and the cell debris was pelleted by centrifugation. Polar lipids were recovered into the chloroform phase by adjusting the chloroform : methanol : 0·3 % aqueous NaCl mixture to a ratio of 1 : 1 : 0·9 (by vol.). Respiratory lipoquinones were separated into their different classes (menaquinones and ubiquinones) by TLC on silica gel (Macherey-Nagel art. no. 805 023), using hexane : tert-butylmethylether (9 : 1, v/v) as solvent. UV-absorbing bands corresponding to menaquinones or ubiquinones were removed from the plate and further analysed by HPLC. This step was carried out on an LDC Analytical HPLC (Thermo Separation Products) fitted with a reverse phase column (Macherey-Nagel; 2x125 mm, 3 µm, RP18) using methanol as the eluant. Respiratory lipoquinones were detected at 269 nm.
Examination of the respiratory lipoquinone composition of strain BN3T indicated that the major respiratory quinones present were menaquinones. The predominant quinone was MK-8, with smaller amounts of MK-7 and MK-9. Whereas those members of the Cytophaga–Flavobacterium–Sphingobacterium subgroups produce either MK-6 or MK-7 as the major menaquinones (Nakagawa & Yamasato, 1993; Oyaizu & Komagata, 1981), it is not unusual to find not only longer chain (>MK-9), but also more than one isoprenologue in significant amounts in the Bacteroides–Prevotella–Porphyromonas–Tannerella subgroup (Shah & Collins, 1980; Sakamoto et al., 2002). It should be noted that some of the closest relatives of strain BN3T, namely Tannerella forsythensis, Bacteroides merdae and Bacteroides distasonis (see below), produce menaquinones with 9–12 isoprenologues. T. forsythensis produces MK-9 to MK-12, with MK-10 and MK-11 predominating, whereas B. merdae produces MK-9 and MK-10 (in equal amounts) and MK-10 predominates in B. distasonis. Since 16S rRNA gene similarities between the type strains of these three species are >95 %, these data are indicative of the fact that the taxonomy of this group (including members of the genus Dysgonomonas) warrants further taxonomic rearrangement. The fact that strain BN3T differs from all its closest 16S rRNA relatives in producing MK-8 as the predominant menaquinone may be taken as indicative of its unique evolutionary and taxonomic status within this group.
Polar lipids were separated by two-dimensional silica gel TLC (Macherey-Nagel art. no. 818 135). The first direction was developed in chloroform : methanol : water (65 : 25 : 4, by vol.) and the second in chloroform : methanol : acetic acid : water (80 : 12 : 15 : 4, by vol.). Total lipid material and specific functional groups were detected using dodecamolybdophosphoric acid (total lipids), Zinzadze reagent (phosphate), ninhydrin (free amino groups), periodate-Schiff (
-glycols), Dragendorff reagent (quaternary nitrogen) and anisaldehyde-sulfuric acid (glycolipids).
The major polar lipids of strain BN3T comprised phosphatidylethanolamine, an unidentified phospholipid, two unidentified aminophospholipids, three unidentified phosphoglycolipids, a glycolipid, an aminolipid and two additional uncharacterized lipids (Fig. 1). Interpretation of the polar lipid pattern detected in strain BN3T is not easy, given the fact that little work has been carried out on the polar lipid composition of the Bacteroides–Flavobacterium–Cytophaga group. However, based on the data presented here and that currently available in the literature, it appears that a number of trends allow the delineation of the group, and further differentiation within the group. In particular, among the major phospholipids, ethanolamine phosphate head-groups seem to predominate and amino-acid-based lipids have also been reported in this group (Batrakov et al., 1998, 1999, 2000; Kawazoe et al., 1991; Pitta et al., 1989). In addition to some of the common features in the polar lipid patterns, it should be noted that, of the few strains examined, the presence or absence of phosphatidylcholine or phosphatidylinositol may be significant (Batrakov et al., 1998, 1999, 2000; Godchaux & Leadbetter, 1980, 1983, 1984; Kawazoe et al., 1991; Le Bach & White, 1969; Naka et al., 2003; Pitta et al., 1989; Rizza et al., 1970).
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The fatty acids of strain BN3T comprised a complex mixture of straight-chain, branched (iso- and anteiso-) and hydroxylated fatty acids (Table 1). Major cellular fatty acids were anteiso-15 : 0, anteiso-13 : 0, iso-15 : 0 and 15 : 0. Among the hydroxy fatty acids, 3-OH iso-16 : 0, 3-OH iso 17 : 0 and 2-OH 17 : 0 predominated. Differential hydrolysis indicated that 2-OH 17 : 0, 3-OH iso-16 : 0 and 3-OH iso 17 : 0 were presumptively amide-linked, as well as ester-linked in smaller proportions. The presence of a complex pattern of fatty acids including straight-chain, branched (iso- and anteiso-) and hydroxylated fatty acids is a characteristic found in many species within the Bacteroides–Flavobacterium–Cytophaga–Sphingobacterium group (Daneshvar et al., 1991; Fautz et al., 1979; Mayberry, 1980; Miyagawa & Suto, 1980; Miyagawa et al., 1979; Moore et al., 1994; Oyaizu & Komagata, 1981; Sakamoto et al., 2002; Shah & Collins, 1980, 1983; Steyn et al., 1998; Urakami & Komagata, 1986). A detailed survey of the fatty acid patterns within this group is outside the scope of the present work, but it is obvious that features such as the presence or absence of significant amounts of unsaturated fatty acids or the relative abundance of iso- and anteiso-branched fatty acids of differing chain length can be used to differentiate different subgroups. This aspect has been emphasized in the work of Moore et al. (1994) and Shah & Collins (1980, 1983, 1988, 1989, 1990). Similarly, the distribution of 2- and 3-OH hydroxy fatty acids may be additional differential criteria.
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; Koga et al., 1993; Sittig & Schlesner, 1993; Schlesner et al., 2004) may be taken to correlate well with the hypothesis that they are rapidly evolving (Liesack et al., 1992; Rouviere et al., 1992; Stackebrandt, 1988). The alternative interpretation is that the chemical and genetic diversity of the group may be simply reduced by creating a number of genera which are chemically and genetically more homogeneous. This point has been discussed by Schlesner et al. (2004), but is also evident in other publications (Blotevogel et al., 1992; Hezayen et al., 2002; Stöhr et al., 2001; Wainø et al., 1999; Zellner et al., 1999).
DNA was isolated after disruption of cells using a French pressure cell (Thermo Spectronic) and purified by hydroxyapatite chromatography (Cashion et al., 1977). The DNA was hydrolysed with P1 nuclease and the nucleotides were dephosphorylated with bovine alkaline phosphatase (Mesbah et al., 1989). The G+C content of the DNA of strain BN3T was 40·8 mol% as determined by using the HPLC method (Tamaoka & Komagata, 1994).
The 16S rRNA gene of the isolate was amplified as described previously (L'Haridon et al., 1998). PCR products were sequenced by the BigDye Terminator version 3.1 method as recommended by the manufacturer. The nearly complete sequence (1413 bp) of the 16S rRNA gene was directly sequenced on both strands with a 3730 XL sequencer (Applied Biosystems). The sequence was submitted to the GenBank database of the NCBI (http://www.ncbi.nih.gov) using the BLAST program. It was manually aligned against its closest relatives using FastAlign version 3.0 of the ARB program package (http://www.arb-home.de). All phylogenetic trees were constructed by using the ARB package. Distance trees were constructed by using neighbour-joining algorithms (Saitou & Nei, 1987) with the Jukes–Cantor correction (Jukes & Cantor, 1969). Parsimony and maximum-likelihood trees were constructed using the PHYLIP package (Felsenstein, 1993) and fastDNAmL software (Olsen et al., 1994), respectively. The robustness of distance and parsimony tree topologies was evaluated by using a bootstrap analysis after 100 samplings.
The 16S rRNA gene sequence analyses placed strain BN3T as a member of the phylum ‘Bacteroidetes’ having T. forsythensis (88 % similarity) and B. merdae (87 % similarity) as its closest cultivated relatives. However, very high similarities (99·6 %) were shared between the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain BN3T and those of environmental clones retrieved from a dechlorinating consortium (GenBank accession no. AJ488088) and bovine rumen (AB003390). Phylogenetic trees were generated using three methods. Bootstrap values from 100 samplings confirmed the affiliation of the novel strain to a clade that also included the sequences of these environmental clones (Fig. 2).
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). However, the predominance of MK-8 as menaquinone is a feature that distinguishes the novel isolate from all its phylogenetic relatives (Table 2). In addition, the 16S rRNA gene sequences of strain BN3T and its relatives are very different (more than 10 % distance). To our knowledge, this is the first report of the isolation of a member of the phylum ‘Bacteroidetes’ from an oilfield. Several authors have however reported the presence of members of the Cytophaga–Flavobacterium–Bacteroides group in oil-polluted environments (von Wintzingerode et al., 1999; LaPara et al., 2000; Teske et al., 2002; Elshahed et al., 2003) and a possible indirect role in hydrocarbon metabolism has been suggested (Elshahed et al., 2003). In a previous study on the Pelican lake oilfield (A. Grabowski, O. Nercessian, F. Fayolle, D. Blanchet & C. Jeanthon, unpublished), 16S rRNA gene sequences very closely related to that of strain BN3T were retrieved from cultures grown in the presence of acetate as sole carbon and energy source. This suggests that strains closely related to strain BN3T could grow in the absence of tryptone, glucose, yeast extract and sulfur. Since we demonstrated that these compounds were required or stimulatory for growth of strain BN3T, it could suggest that strain BN3T could have another metabolism in situ, in cooperation with or dependent on that of other micro-organisms.
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Description of Petrimonas gen. nov.
Petrimonas (Pe.tri.mo'nas. L. fem. n. petra rock, stone; L. fem. n. monas a unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Petrimonas stone monad).
Cells are straight, Gram-negative rods. Spores are not formed. Strictly anaerobic. Mesophilic. Carbohydrates and some organic acids are fermented. Major respiratory quinones are menaquinones; the predominant quinone is MK-8, with smaller amounts of MK-7 and MK-9. The major polar lipids are phosphatidylethanolamine, an unidentified phospholipid, two unidentified aminophospholipids, three unidentified phosphoglycolipids, a glycolipid, an aminolipid and two additional uncharacterized lipids. The fatty acids comprise both straight-chain and branched fatty acids, in addition to which both 2-OH and 3-OH fatty acids are present. Major cellular fatty acids are anteiso-15 : 0, anteiso-13 : 0, iso-15 : 0 and 15 : 0. Among the hydroxy fatty acids, 3-OH iso-16 : 0, 3-OH iso 17 : 0 and 2-OH 17 : 0 predominate. About one-third of each of all three appear to be amide-linked. On the basis of the 16S rRNA gene analysis, the genus Petrimonas is most closely related to the genera Bacteroides and Tannerella within the phylum Bacteroidetes. The type species is Petrimonas sulfuriphila.
Description of Petrimonas sulfuriphila sp. nov.
Petrimonas sulfuriphila (sul.fu.ri.phi'la. L. n. sulfur sulfur; Gr. adj. philos loving; N.L. fem. adj. sulfuriphila sulfur-loving, indicating that sulfur stimulates growth).
Cells (0·7–1x1·5–2 µm) occur singly or in pairs. Chemo-organotroph. The temperature range for growth is 15–40 °C and the optimum is 37–40 °C at pH 7·2. The NaCl concentration range is 0–4 % with an optimum at 0 %. Tryptone is required for growth. Yeast extract and elemental sulfur stimulate growth. Glucose, arabinose, galactose, maltose, mannose, rhamnose, lactose, ribose, fructose, sucrose, lactate, mannitol, glycerol and cellobiose are fermented. Acetate, hydrogen and CO2 are produced during glucose fermentation. Elemental sulfur is reduced to sulfide and nitrate is reduced to ammonium. The G+C content of the DNA of the type strain is 40·8 mol% (HPLC).
The type strain, BN3T (=JCM 12565T=DSM 16547T), was isolated from an oilfield well head in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (Canada).
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