Virgibacillus chiguensis sp. nov., a novel halophilic bacterium isolated from Chigu, a previously commercial saltern located in southern Taiwan
Wang, Chung-Yi and Chang, Chen-Chin and Ng, Chang Chai and Chen, Tseng-Wei and Shyu, Yuan-Tay,, 58, 341-345 (2008),
doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64996-0,
publicationName = Microbiology Society,
issn = 1466-5026,
abstract= A Gram-positive, motile, endospore-forming, irregular rod-shaped (0.7–0.9×2.5–5.0 μm), halophilic bacterial strain, NTU-101T, was isolated from Chigu saltern in southern Taiwan, previously used as a salt production field. The isolate was characterized taxonomically based on biochemical and molecular approaches. It grows optimally at 40 °C and in the presence of 5–10 % NaCl. Strain NTU-101T has cell-wall peptidoglycan based on meso-diaminopimelic acid and MK-7 as the predominant menaquinone. Major polar lipids are phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylethanolamine. Anteiso-C15 : 0, iso-C15 : 0 and anteiso-C17 : 0 are the major fatty acids. The DNA G+C content was 37.3 mol%. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed its affiliation to the genus Virgibacillus. DNA–DNA relatedness values between strain NTU-101T and Virgibacillus dokdonensis and Virgibacillus pantothenticus were 17.5 and 21.5 %, respectively. Based on the phenotypic and phylogenetic properties, strain NTU-101T (=BCRC 17637T=CGMCC 1.6496T) was classified as a novel strain of Virgibacillus species, for which the name Virgibacillus chiguensis sp. nov. is proposed.,
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