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Abstract

Gram-reaction-positive, aerobic, non-spore-forming, irregular rod-shaped bacteria, designated AHU1821 and AHU1820, were isolated from an ice wedge in the Fox permafrost tunnel, Alaska. The strains were psychrophilic, growing at −5 to 27 °C. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA and gene sequences indicated that the ice-wedge isolates formed a clade distinct from other mycolic-acid-containing bacteria within the suborder . The cell wall of strains AHU1821 and AHU1820 contained -diaminopimelic acid, arabinose and galactose, indicating chemotype IV. The muramic acids in the peptidoglycan were glycolated. The predominant menaquinone was MK-9(H). The polar lipids consisted of diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylinositol mannosides and an unidentified glycolipid. The major fatty acids were hexadecenoic acid (C), hexadecanoic acid (C), octadecenoic acid (C) and tetradecanoic acid (C). Tuberculostearic acid was present in relatively small amounts (1 %). Strains AHU1821 and AHU1820 contained mycolic acids with 42–52 carbons. The DNA G+C content of the two strains was 69.3–71.6 mol% ( ). 16S rRNA, and gene sequences were identical between strains AHU1821 and AHU1820 and those of the gene showed 99.9 % similarity. Based on phylogenetic and phenotypic evidence, strains AHU1821 and AHU1820 represent a single novel species of a novel genus, for which the name gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of is AHU1821 (=DSM 45403 =NBRC 106253).

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