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1 School for Agriculture and Environmental Science, Central University of Technology: Free State, 1 President Brandt Street, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
2 Department of Microbial, Biochemical and Food Biotechnology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
3 Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa
4 BCCM/LMG Bacteria Collection, Ghent University, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, Ghent B-9000, Belgium
5 Laboratorium of Microbiology, Ghent University, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, Ghent B-9000, Belgium
Correspondence
Hanli de Beer
hdebeer{at}cut.ac.za
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Potential Chryseobacterium isolates were obtained from fresh fish from the South Atlantic Ocean in the course of 1996 and were analysed by whole-cell protein electrophoresis. A cluster of four isolates collected in February (LMG 23086), June (LMG 23087) and July (LMG 23088 and LMG 23089T) of that year differed from Chryseobacterium reference strains and prompted the taxonomic study reported herein. Reference strains from established Chryseobacterium species and related bacteria were available from the BCCM/LMG Bacteria Collection (Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium). After growth for 24 h on tryptic soy agar (BBL), cells were harvested and whole-cell protein extracts were prepared and subjected to whole-cell protein electrophoresis as described by Pot et al. (1994)
. A densitometric analysis, normalization and interpolation of the protein profiles and a numerical analysis were performed by using the GelCompar software package (Applied Maths). The four isolates had virtually identical whole-cell protein profiles (the correlation level was above 0.96), which were most similar to those of the Chryseobacterium balustinum and Chryseobacterium indoltheticum type strains (correlation levels of 0.91 and 0.89, respectively) (Fig. 1
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phage DNA (Sigma) was used as the calibration reference. The detector used was a Waters model 484 UV-VIS absorbance detector set at 270 nm. DNADNA hybridizations between strain LMG 23089T and the type strains of C. balustinum, C. scophthalmum and C. indoltheticum yielded binding values of 57, 51 and 52 %, respectively. The DNA G+C content of LMG 23089T was 33.6 mol%, which corresponds with the range (3438 mol%) for the genus Chryseobacterium (Vandamme et al., 1994
Whole-cell fatty acid components of the four strains were prepared from a loopful of well-grown cells that had been incubated for 24 h at 28 °C. Fatty acid profiles were generated under highly standardized conditions, as previously described by Vandamme et al. (1992)
. Separation and identification of esters were done with the Sherlock Microbial Identification System (MIDI, version 3.0). Mean percentages and standard deviations were calculated. Table 1
gives a summary of the fatty acid composition of the tested strains in comparison with those of the other Chryseobacterium reference strains. The mean percentages of the predominant fatty acids were as follows: iso-C15 : 0, 38.3 %; iso-C17 : 1
9c, 18.7 %; iso-C17 : 0 3-OH, 16.2 %; and summed feature 3, 10.8 %.
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Colonies are shiny, yellow and translucent with entire edges. Cells are rod-shaped and the cell dimensions are approximately 1.0 µm by <0.5 µm (Fig. 3
). Cells are Gram-negative, catalase- and oxidase-positive and produce flexirubin pigment in the presence of 20 % KOH. They produce an alkaline reaction in the oxidationfermentation test. Colonies form after 24 h at 4, 15, 25 and 32 °C. Very weak growth occurs on nutrient agar but not at 37 or 42 °C or on MacConkey no. 3 (Oxoid CM115) agar. Grows in nutrient broth with a 5 % NaCl solution. Aesculin production occurs within 4 h. Strains test positive for phenylalanine deaminase activity, gelatin hydrolysis, casein hydrolysis, lecithinase and phosphatase activity and produce urea from ammonia. Weak DNase activity occurs but there is no starch or tyrosine hydrolysis. Reaction on triple-sugar iron agar (Oxoid CM277) and 10 % lactose is alkaline and strains do not produce H2S from triple-sugar iron agar or SIM medium (Oxoid CM435). The ability of the strains to oxidize a panel of 95 different carbon sources was tested with the Biolog system: only four positive reactions were encountered in all four isolates, namely metabolism of gentiobiose, D-mannose, succinic acid monomethyl ester and acetic acid.
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