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Department of Science Education, Cheju National University, Jeju 690-756, Republic of Korea
Correspondence
Soon Dong Lee
sdlee{at}cheju.ac.kr
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The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain KSW2-15T is DQ345443.
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During the course of studying marine bacteria sampled from the coast of Jeju in the Republic of Korea, a yellow-pigmented actinomycete, strain KSW2-15T, was isolated from a dried seaweed sample collected at Gwakji beach and was subjected to polyphasic taxonomic characterization. For bacterial isolation, a piece of dried seaweed was directly transferred onto WAT agar plates (Li et al., 2002
) supplemented with 60 % (v/v) sterilized natural seawater. This isolation medium (WAT-SW agar) consisted of 0.05 % MgSO4.7H2O, 0.05 % CaCl2.2H2O and 1.5 % agar in 60 % natural seawater and 40 % distilled water (pH 7.3). A colony on the plate, incubated at 30 °C for 14 days, was subcultured on YE-SW medium (0.4 % yeast extract, 1.0 % malt extract, 0.4 % glucose, 1.8 % agar, 60 % natural seawater and 40 % distilled water). The pure culture was maintained at 20 and 80 °C in a 20 % glycerol suspension supplemented with 60 % natural seawater.
The DAP isomer, the cell-wall acyl type and the presence of mycolic acids were determined as described by Staneck & Roberts (1974)
, Uchida & Aida (1984)
and Minnikin et al. (1980)
, respectively. Polar lipids and menaquinones were extracted by using the integrated procedure of Minnikin et al. (1984)
. Polar lipid profiles were determined by two-dimensional TLC (Minnikin et al., 1977
). Menaquinones were analysed by using HPLC (Kroppenstedt, 1985
). For the above analyses, the organism was cultivated on YE-SW broth for 3 days at 30 °C and harvested by centrifugation at 3000 r.p.m. for 20 min. Extraction of the cellular fatty acids and determination of the fatty acid composition were performed by gas chromatography performed according to the instructions of the Microbial Identification System (MIDI), using cells grown on trypticase soy agar (Difco) for 3 days at 30 °C. The DNA G+C content was determined by HPLC (Mesbah et al., 1989
). The results of the chemotaxonomic analyses are given in the genus description. The fatty acid profile of the organism was characterized by the predominance of C17 : 1
8c (19.4 %), iso-C16 : 0 (15.1 %), iso-C15 : 0 (13.9 %), C15 : 0 (9.5 %) and C17 : 0 (8.8 %). Other fatty acids present at levels above at least 1 % were iso-C14 : 0 (5.3 %), anteiso-C15 : 0 (4.8 %), C17 : 0 3-OH (4.5 %), C17 : 0 10-methyl (3.1 %), C16 : 0 (2.7 %), C12 : 0 (2.2 %), C18 : 1
8c (1.9 %), anteiso-C17 : 0 (1.8 %) and C18 : 0 (1.1 %).
The 16S rRNA gene sequence was determined as described elsewhere (Lee et al., 2000
; Lee & Jeong, 2006
). Phylogenetic analyses were performed by using three tree-making algorithms, namely the neighbour-joining (Saitou & Nei, 1987
), maximum-likelihood (Felsenstein, 1981
) and maximum-parsimony (Fitch, 1971
) methods on a multiple alignment matrix (Thompson et al., 1997
). A neighbour-joining tree was reconstructed from evolutionary distances calculated using the JukesCantor coefficient (Jukes & Cantor, 1969
). The tree topology was evaluated by means of a bootstrap analysis (Felsenstein, 1985
) of 1000 replicated datasets. An almost-complete 16S rRNA gene sequence for strain KSW2-15T, containing a continuous stretch of 1413 nt, was compared with those of related organisms from the family Intrasporangiaceae. A total of 1259 unambiguous aligned positions present in all strains were used for phylogenetic analyses. A neighbour-joining tree (Fig. 1
) based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain KSW2-15T was loosely associated with Candidatus Nostocoida limicola within the radiation encompassing representatives of the family Intrasporangiaceae. This clustering, albeit with moderate bootstrap support (56 %), was also found in the trees obtained using maximum-likelihood and maximum-parsimony methods. The highest levels of sequence similarity for the isolate occurred with Candidatus N. limicola (96.1 %), Terrabacter tumescens (96.1 %) and Terrabacter terrae (96.0 %). The levels of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity between the isolate and other representatives of the family Intrasporangiaceae were in the range 92.195.5 %.
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Description of Phycicoccus gen. nov.
Phycicoccus (Phy.ci.coc'cus. L. n. phycos -i from Gr. n. phukos seaweed; N.L. masc. n. coccus from Gr. n. kokkos a grain or berry; N.L. masc. n. Phycicoccus coccus from seaweed).
Gram-positive, oxidase-negative and catalase-positive. Cells are non-endospore-forming, non-motile and coccoid. Cells occur singly, in pairs, in short chains or in clusters. The diamino acid of the peptidoglycan is meso-DAP. The acyl type of the muramic acid is acetyl. Mycolic acids are not present. The predominant menaquinone is MK-8(H4). The phospholipid profile contains phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol and diphosphatidylglycerol (phospholipid type PII pattern). The predominant cellular fatty acids are C17 : 1
8c, iso-C16 : 0, iso-C15 : 0, C15 : 0 and C17 : 0. The DNA G+C content is 74 mol%. Phylogenetically, the genus is loosely associated with genera of the family Intrasporangiaceae, suborder Micrococcineae. The type species of the genus is Phycicoccus jejuensis.
Description of Phycicoccus jejuensis sp. nov.
Phycicoccus jejuensis (je.ju.en'sis. N.L. masc. adj. jejuensis of Jeju, Republic of Korea, the site at which the type strain was isolated).
Aerobic, Gram-positive, non-motile, non-endospore-forming, oxidase-negative, catalase-positive. Cells are cocci that occur singly, in pairs, in short chains or in clusters. Colonies are circular, smooth, translucent and moderately yellow in colour. The chemotaxonomic characteristics are the same as those given in the genus description. Urease-negative. Nitrate is reduced to nitrite. Gelatin liquefaction is observed. Aesculin, casein, DNA and starch are hydrolysed. Elastin is degraded. Glucose fermentation does not occur. The temperature range for growth is 437 °C, with an optimum at 30 °C. No growth occurs at 40 °C. The pH for growth is in the range pH 5.110.1, with an optimum of pH 7.1. Growth occurs in the presence of 07 % NaCl. The following substrates are utilized as sole carbon and energy sources: dextrin, glycogen, mannan, Tweens 40 and 80, N-acetyl-D-glucosamine, N-acetyl-
-D-mannosamine, amygdalin, L-arabinose, D-arabitol, D-galacturonic acid, gentiobiose, D-gluconic acid,
-D-glucose, myo-inositol,
-D-lactose, lactulose, maltose, D-mannitol, D-mannose, D-melezitose, D-melibiose, methyl
-D-galactoside, methyl
-D-galactoside, methyl
-D-glucoside, methyl
-D-glucoside, methyl
-D-mannoside, palatinose, D-psicose, D-raffinose, L-rhamnose, D-ribose, salicin, sedoheptulosan, D-sorbitol, stachyose, sucrose, D-tagatose, D-trehalose, turanose, xylitol, D-xylose, acetic acid,
-,
- and
-hydroxybutyric acids, p-hydroxyphenylacetic acid,
-ketoglutaric acid,
-ketovaleric acid, lactamide, L-lactic acid, L-malic acid, propionic acid, succinamic acid, succinic acid, L-alaninamide, D- and L-alanine, L-alanyl glycine, L-asparagine, L-glutamic acid, glycyl L-glutamic acid, L-serine, putrescine, 2,3-butanediol, glycerol, adenosine, 2'-deoxyadenosine, inosine, thymidine, uridine, thymidine 5'-monophosphate, uridine 5'-monophosphate, D-fructose 6-phosphate,
-D-glucose 1-phosphate, D-glucose 6-phosphate and DL-
-glycerol phosphate. Utilization of the following substrates is weakly positive: inulin, arbutin, D-cellobiose, D-fructose, L-fucose, D-galactose, maltotriose, 3-methyl D-glucoside, D-lactic acid methyl ester, monomethyl succinate, N-acetyl-L-glutamic acid, L-pyroglutamic acid and adenosine 5'-monophosphate.
-Cyclodextrin,
-cyclodextrin, methylpyruvate and D-malic acid are not used as sole carbon and energy sources. Of the tests in the API ZYM system, alkaline phosphatase, esterase (C4), esterase lipase (C8), lipase (C14), leucine arylamidase, valine arylamidase, cystine arylamidase, trypsin,
-chymotrypsin, acid phosphatase, naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase,
-galactosidase,
-galactosidase,
-glucosidase and
-glucosidase are positive. Tests for
-glucuronidase, N-acetyl-
-glucosaminidase,
-mannosidase and
-fucosidase are negative. The predominant cellular fatty acids are C17 : 1
8c, iso-C16 : 0, iso-C15 : 0, C15 : 0 and C17 : 0. The DNA G+C content is 74 mol%.
The type strain, KSW2-15T (=KCCM 42315T=NRRL B-24460T), was isolated from dried seaweed on Gwakji beach on Jeju Island, Republic of Korea.
Note added in proof
Another new genus has been described in the Intrasporangiaceae (Kribbia dieselivorans gen. nov., sp. nov.; Jung et al., 2006
), with the same diagnostic diamino acid, after this paper was accepted for publication.
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