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1 Department of Applied Biological Sciences, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, 1866 Kameino, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 252-8510, Japan
2 Department of Crop Science, College of Agriculture, Can Tho University, Campus II, 3/2 Street, Can Tho, Vietnam
3 Department of Agricultural and Biological Chemistry, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, 1866 Kameino, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 252-8510, Japan
4 Environmental Program, Nihon University Advanced Research Institute for the Sciences and Humanities, 12-5 Goban-cho Chiyoda, Tokyo 102-8251, Japan
5 Biological Resource Center (NBRC), Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, 2-5-8 Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0812, Japan
6 Japan Collection of Microorganisms, RIKEN BioResource Center, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
Correspondence
Michio Sunairi
sunairi{at}brs.nihon-u.ac.jp
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The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the 16S rRNA gene sequences of strains B55T, CA73, SA69 and SA72 are AB266597–AB266600, respectively.
A scanning electron micrograph of cells of strain B55T and details of the fatty acid compositions of the novel strains and related type strains are available as supplementary material with the online version of this paper.
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and, at present, the genus comprises six recognized species, isolated from rice (Curtobacterium citreum, the type species; Komagata & Iizuka, 1964; Yamada & Komagata, 1972), common bean (Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens; Collins & Jones, 1983), the litter layer (Curtobacterium herbarum; Behrendt et al., 2002), Chinese rice paddies [Curtobacterium luteum (Komagata & Iizuka, 1964; Yamada & Komagata, 1972) and Curtobacterium albidum (Komagata & Iizuka, 1964; Yamada & Komagata, 1972)] and oil brines (Curtobacterium pusillum; Iizuka & Komagata, 1965; Yamada & Komagata, 1972). The status of a seventh species, Curtobacterium plantarum, as a member of the genus is debatable. During the course of a study to develop bioremediation measures for actual acid sulfate soils (AASS), we isolated a number of ammonia-producing bacteria from plants adapted to AASS in South-east Asia. In this study, we characterized four ammonia-producing bacterial strains isolated from the waterweeds Ludwigia adscendens and Eleocharis dulcis in highly acidic swamps (pH 2–4) at AASS areas of Can Tho in Vietnam. By phenotypic, genotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic analyses, the strains have been affiliated to the genus Curtobacterium. The data obtained also suggest that the isolates represent a novel species.
Strains were grown on one-tenth-strength tryptic soy (1/10 TS) agar plates [3.0 g tryptic soy broth l–1 solidified with 15.0 g agar l–1 (Difco), pH 4.1] at 28 °C under aerobic conditions followed by selection on the basis of neutralization of 1/10 TS liquid medium (pH 4) determined by measuring the pH of culture supernatants after a 3 day cultivation period. Strain B55T was obtained from a stem of L. adscendens, and strains CA73, SA69 and SA72 were isolated from stems of E. dulcis. All strains showed growth between pH 3.5 and 8.0, with an optimum at pH 4–5. On 1/10 TS liquid medium (pH 4.1), the strains alkalinized the medium to pH 7.2 and the concentration of ammonium ions in the medium was increased from 0.14 to 0.61 mM. This increase seemed to be responsible for the neutralization since, by the addition of ammonium to fresh acidic medium to a final concentration of 0.61 mM, the pH increased from pH 4.1 to 7.2. No or little alkalinization or increase in the ammonium ion concentration was observed on 1/10 TS liquid medium of pH 7 or above. All strains showed good growth on 1/10 TS (pH 4.1) at 25–37 °C with an optimum at 30 °C, but did not grow at 4 or 45 °C. On 1/10 TS agar (pH 4.1), the organisms formed smooth, round, convex, pale-yellow colonies. The strains were Gram-positive (Ryu, 1938), non-endospore-forming and aerobic. Motility was not observed.
The 16S rRNA gene of each strain was amplified by PCR using universal primers (Tamura & Hatano, 2001) and nearly complete 16S rRNA gene nucleotide sequences (>1400 bp) were determined for the four strains. Their sequences were almost identical and showed high similarities to species of the genus Curtobacterium. The similarities among strain B55T and C. flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens LMG 3645T, C. luteum DSM 20542T, C. albidum NBRC 15078T, C. pusillum DSM 20527T, C. citreum DSM 20528T and C. herbarum DSM 14013T were between 98.2 and 99.4 %. Phylogenetic relationships with closely related species were determined by using MEGA version 3.1 (Kumar et al., 2004) and the PHYLIP package version 3.65 (Felsenstein, 2005) after multiple alignment of data performed by CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al., 1997). Evolutionary distances were computed as described previously (Jukes & Cantor, 1969). Phylogenetic trees were constructed using the maximum-parsimony (Kluge & Farris, 1969) and neighbour-joining (Saitou & Nei, 1987) methods. The reliability of the tree topologies was evaluated by bootstrap analysis with 1000 replicates (Felsenstein, 1985). The phylogenetic trees constructed by the two methods were topologically similar and showed that all four isolates belonged to the genus Curtobacterium. Although these strains showed high degrees of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to the established species of the genus, they formed a separate line of descent in the phylogenetic cluster of the genus (Fig. 1; maximum-parsimony tree not shown). Stackebrandt & Goebel (1994) pointed out that a high degree of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity (
97 %) is of limited value for differentiating species and that DNA–DNA hybridization studies need to be performed to determine species affiliation under these circumstances; we therefore performed DNA–DNA hybridization studies by using the microplate hybridization method (Ezaki et al., 1988, 1989; Tamura et al., 1999) between strain B55T and its neighbours on the phylogenetic tree. The DNA–DNA relatedness values between strain B55T and C. luteum JCM 1480T, C. albidum NBRC 15078T, C. pusillum JCM 1350T, C. citreum JCM 1345T, C. flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens JCM 9670T and strains CA73, SA69 and SA72 were respectively 7.9, 8.9, 6.2, 9.2, 7.8, 91.2, 80.7 and 89.9 %. The DNA–DNA relatedness values of B55T with respect to the type strains of closely related species were far lower than 70 %, which is the recommended threshold value for the delineation of genomic species (Wayne et al., 1987), whereas the values with respect to the other three strains were higher than 70 %. On the basis of these results, these strains represent a single novel species of the genus Curtobacterium.
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). The isolates are ammonia-producing acidophiles, whereas other species are neutrophiles producing no or little ammonia. Standard physiological tests were carried out according to methods described previously (Gordon et al., 1974, Smibert & Krieg, 1994). Acid production from carbon sources and enzyme activities were assessed by using the API 50 CH and API Coryne systems (bioMérieux), respectively, according to the manufacturer's instructions (incubation times of up to 7 days). The utilization of various substrates as sole carbon sources was tested by using Biolog GP2 MicroPlates in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions.
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Analyses of cell-wall amino acids, cell-wall sugar pattern, the acyl type of peptidoglycan, menaquinones, DNA G+C content and cellular fatty acids were performed as described previously (Uchida et al., 1999; Nishiuchi et al., 1999; Tamura et al., 1994). The amino acids in the cell wall of strain B55T were D-ornithine, D-glutamic acid, D-alanine, glycine and L-homoserine, indicating murein type B2
according to Schleifer & Kandler (1972). The major isoprenoid quinone of the isolates was MK-9. The DNA G+C content of strain B55T was 68.8 mol%. These data also supported our contention that the isolates belong to the genus Curtobacterium. The acyl type of peptidoglycan was acetyl. Mannose, glucose, fucose and rhamnose were found in the cell-wall hydrolysate of strain B55T. The strains were grown on both acidic (pH 4) and neutral (pH 7) 1/10 TS agar media and their cellular fatty acid compositions were determined (Supplementary Table S1). Six fatty acids were detected from all isolates under both culture conditions, and the major fatty acid was 11-cyclohexyl undecanoic acid (ch-C17 : 0), making up 80.9–88.4 % of fatty acids in cells grown on neutral medium and 54.6–75.4 % of those grown on acidic medium. Relatively large amounts of anteiso-C17 : 0 (11.6–30.6 %) were detected from cells grown on acidic medium, whereas small amounts (1.4–2.9 %) were found in cells grown on neutral medium. Similar differences in the content of anteiso-C15 : 0, C16 : 0 and iso-C16 : 0 were detected between cells grown on the acidic and neutral media. Small amounts of 13-cyclohexyl tridecanoic acid (ch-C19 : 0) were also detected from cells grown on both media. These profiles, with a large proportion of 
-cyclohexyl acids, are similar to those of C. pusillum (Suzuki et al., 1981) and C. flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens (Supplementary Table S1). Mycolic acids were not detected.
Therefore, based on the physiological, biochemical, chemotaxonomic and molecular genetic results described above, strains B55T, CA73, SA69 and SA72 represent a novel species, for which the name Curtobacterium ammoniigenes sp. nov. is proposed.
Description of Curtobacterium ammoniigenes sp. nov.
Curtobacterium ammoniigenes (am.mo.ni.i'ge.nes. N.L. n. ammonia -ae ammonia; Gr. v. gennao to produce; N.L. part. adj. ammoniigenes ammonia-producing).
The morphological, physiological and chemical description of the species is based on the four strains described above. Gram-positive, strictly aerobic, non-spore-forming, non-motile rods of irregular shape. Colonies are pale yellow, smooth, convex and round with entire margins. Growth occurs between 15 and 37 °C but not at 4 or 45 °C. The pH range for growth is 3.5–8.0, with optimum growth at pH 4. Produces ammonia on 1/10 TS medium (pH 4.1) and neutralizes the medium to pH 7. Physiological characteristics are summarized in Table 1
. The diagnostic diamino acid of the peptidoglycan is D-ornithine; peptidoglycan is of the B2 type with acetyl residues. The major menaquinone is MK-9, as described for the genus. The predominant cellular fatty acid is 11-cyclohexyl undecanoic acid (ch-C17 : 0). The DNA G+C content of the type strain is 68.8 mol%.
The type strain, B55T (=NBRC 101786T=VTCC D6-11T=JCM 14609T), was isolated from a stem of Ludwigia adscendens inhabiting acidic swamps in actual acid sulfate soil areas in Vietnam. Strains CA73 (=NBRC 101790=VTCC D6-15=JCM 14610), SA69 (=NBRC 101788=VTCC D6-13=JCM 14611) and SA72 (=NBRC 101789=VTCC D6-14=JCM 14612), isolated from stems of Eleocharis dulcis in the same area, are also assigned to this species.
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