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1 Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla, Spain
2 State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080 Beijing, China
3 Department of Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, Bellville 7535, Cape Town, South Africa
4 Genencor International, Leiden, The Netherlands
5 Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 9HN, UK
Correspondence
A. Ventosa
ventosa{at}us.es
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The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the 16S rRNA gene sequences of strains XH-63T, XH-62 and EJ-15 are AM040716, AM040717 and AM040718, respectively.
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The three strains were isolated from water (strains XH-63T and XH-62) and sediment (strain EJ-15) samples taken during an expedition in September 2003 of two salt lakes located near Xilin Hot and Ejinor, in Inner Mongolia, China. The lake near Xilin Hot is located at 43° 55' N 115° 37' E and the water was 24 °C, pH 8·5 and had a conductivity of 185 mS cm1. The lake near Ejinor is located at 45° 14' N 116° 31' E and the water was 28 °C, pH 7·5 and had a conductivity of 161 mS cm1. The isolation medium and the method used for isolation have been described previously (Ventosa et al., 1983
). These strains were cultivated in MH medium with 10 % (w/v) total salts (MH-10 medium). The composition of this medium was (%, w/v): NaCl, 8·1; MgCl2, 0·7; MgSO4, 0·96; CaCl2, 0·036; KCl, 0·2; NaHCO3, 0·006; NaBr, 0·0026; yeast extract (Difco), 1; proteose peptone no. 3 (Difco), 0·5; and glucose, 0·1. The pH was adjusted to 7·2 with 1 M KOH. When necessary, solid media were prepared by adding 2·0 % (w/v) Bacto-agar (Difco). G. dipsosauri DSM 11125T and G. halotolerans DSM 11805T were obtained from the DSMZ, Braunschweig, Germany, and cultivated according to the procedures recommended by the DSMZ.
To characterize these isolates phenotypically, standard phenotypic tests were performed, including Gram reaction, cell morphology, motility, growth under anaerobic conditions, catalase and oxidase production, as well as other tests shown in Table 1
or included in the species description. For nutritional tests, a basal medium with the following composition was used (w/v): NaCl, 10·0; KCl, 0·2; MgSO4.7H20, 0·02; KNO3, 0·1; (NH4)2HPO4, 0·1; and KH2PO4, 0·05. To this liquid medium, a 0·1 % (w/v) filter-sterilized substrate was added. Carbohydrates were used at a final concentration of 0·2 % (w/v). When amino acids were used as substrate, the basal medium contained neither KNO3 nor (NH4)2HPO4. All test procedures have been previously described (Ventosa et al., 1982
; Quesada et al., 1984
; García et al., 1987
). Strains were Gram-positive, motile and strictly aerobic. Cells were rod-shaped with a width of 0·70·9 µm and length of 2·010·0 µm. Spherical endospores were formed at terminal positions in swollen sporangia (Fig. 1
), similarly to those produced by G. dipsosauri, the species most closely related phylogenetically. However, the other member of the genus Gracilibacillus, G. halotolerans, produces ellipsoid endospores. The three isolates were moderately halophilic, growing in media containing 120 % (w/v) salts and growing optimally in media containing 10 % (w/v) salts. No growth was observed in the absence of NaCl. G. dipsosauri and G. halotolerans are able to grow in media containing 015 % and 020 % (w/v) NaCl, respectively, and thus they are considered to be extremely halotolerant, although G. dipsosauri was originally described as moderately halophilic by Lawson et al. (1996)
. Table 1
shows the differential characteristics between these isolates and the species G. dipsosauri and G. halotolerans.
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Almost-complete 16S rRNA gene sequences of strains XH-63T, XH-62 and EJ-15 were obtained and used for initial BLAST searches in GenBank and phylogenetic analysis. Phylogenetic analysis was conducted with sequences of representative strains of the family Bacillaceae and related taxa. A tree constructed by maximum-parsimony analysis clearly showed that the three isolates were part of a cluster that included the genera Gracilibacillus and Paraliobacillus, as shown in Fig. 2
. Topologies of phylogenetic trees built using the maximum-likelihood and neighbour-joining algorithms were similar to those of the tree constructed by maximum-parsimony analysis (data not shown). The 16S rRNA gene sequences of the three novel isolates shared 99·9100 % similarity to each other and are on the same phylogenetic branch. The nearest known relatives of the strains XH-63T, XH-62 and EJ-15 were G. dipsosauri (95·7, 95·6 and 95·8 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, respectively) and G. halotolerans (95·4, 95·3 and 95·4 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, respectively). The other closely related relative was Paraliobacillus ryukyuensis (94·8, 94·7 and 94·9 % similarity, respectively).
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Preparation of cell walls from the three strains and analysis of peptidoglycan structures were carried out using methods described by Schleifer (1985)
, with the modification that TLC on cellulose sheets was performed instead of paper chromatography. Our isolates possessed a cell wall type based on meso-diaminopimelic acid, which was in common with those of G. dipsosauri, G. halotolerans and the great majority of endospore-forming, Gram-positive bacilli.
The cellular fatty acids of strain XH-63T, selected as a representative strain of the isolates, were analysed with the MIDI system (Microbial ID). Cells were cultured in MH-10 medium at 37 °C for 24 h. The predominant fatty acids of strain XH-63T were anteiso-C15 : 0, anteiso-C17 : 0, iso-C15 : 0, C16 : 0, iso-C16 : 0 and C17 : 0. This fatty acid profile is quite similar to those of the species of Gracilibacillus and is in accordance to those previously reported for these two species (Wainø et al., 1999
), although a number of differences could be seen in the distribution of the minor fatty acids (Table 2
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Phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA sequence, cell wall type and respiratory lipoquinone analysis clearly suggest that our isolates belong to the genus Gracilibacillus. Furthermore, phenotypic features (temperature and salt ranges for growth, optimal salt concentration for growth, and absence of oxidase and nitrate reductase activities), DNA base composition, fatty acid profile and polar lipid patterns clearly differentiate the three isolates from G. dipsosauri and G. halotolerans. In conclusion, it is proposed that the novel strains represent a novel species of the genus Gracilibacillus, for which the name Gracilibacillus orientalis sp. nov. is proposed.
Description of Gracilibacillus orientalis sp. nov.
Gracilibacillus orientalis (o.ri.en.ta'lis. L. adj. orientalis eastern, bacterium inhabiting the East).
Gram-positive rods, 0·70·9x2·010·0 µm. Motile, spherical endospores are produced at a terminal position in swollen sporangia. Strictly aerobic. Colonies are 0·30·6 mm in diameter, cream, circular, opaque and entire on MH-10 medium after 2 days of cultivation. Moderately halophilic, growing in a wide range (120 %, w/v) of salt concentrations, with optimal growth at 10 % (w/v) salts. No growth in the absence of NaCl. Grows at 445 °C (optimal at 37 °C) and pH 5·09·0 (optimal at pH 7·5). Strictly aerobic. Catalase-positive and oxidase-negative. Nitrate is not reduced to nitrite. Acid is produced from arabinose, galactose, glycerol, D-glucose, D-fructose, D-lactose, D-mannitol, D-xylose, maltose, D-trehalose and sucrose. Aesculin, gelatin and starch are hydrolysed; casein, Tween 80 and urea are not hydrolysed. H2S is not produced. Indole, methyl red, phenylalanine deaminase, Simmons citrate, arginine dihydrolase, and lysine and ornithine decarboxylase tests are negative. Phosphatase test is positive. The following compounds are utilized as sole carbon and energy sources: acetate, citrate, formate, fumarate, D-fucose, lactose, propanol, D-sorbitol and valerate. The following compounds are not utilized as sole carbon and energy sources: D-arabinose, D-cellobiose, D-galactose, maltose, D-mannose, D-melibiose, D-melizitose, L-raffinose, D-trehalose, D-xylose, butanol, ethanol, methanol, benzoate, propionate and succinate. The following compounds are not used as sole carbon, nitrogen and energy sources: L-alanine, L-arginine, aspartic acid, L-cysteine, phenylalanine, glutamic acid, DL-lysine, L-methionine, L-ornithine, L-threonine, tryptophan and L-serine. Susceptible to bacitracin (10 U), chloramphenicol (30 µg), erythromycin (15 µg) and rifampicin (30 µg). Resistant to ampicillin (10 µg), gentamicin (10 µg), kanamycin (30 µg), nalidixic acid (30 µg), neomycin (10 µg), novobiocin (30 µg) and penicillin (10 U). The cell wall contains peptidoglycan of the meso-diaminopimelic acid type. Major isoprenoid quinone is MK-7. The polar lipids are diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, and a phospholipid and two amino phospholipids of unknown structure. Additional characteristics of the strains are listed in Table 1
. Cellular fatty acid composition is given in Table 2
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The type strain is XH-63T (=CCM 7326T=AS 1.4250T=CECT 7097T), isolated from a salt lake near Xilin Hot in Inner Mongolia, China.
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