@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.65787-0, author = "Takeda, Minoru and Yoneya, Akiko and Miyazaki, Yuichi and Kondo, Keiko and Makita, Hiroko and Kondoh, Masashi and Suzuki, Ichiro and Koizumi, Jun-ichi", title = "Prosthecobacter fluviatilis sp. nov., which lacks the bacterial tubulin btubA and btubB genes", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2008", volume = "58", number = "7", pages = "1561-1565", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65787-0", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.65787-0", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", abstract = " Leptothrix cholodnii is a sheathed bacterium often found in metal-rich and oligotrophic aquatic environments. A bacterial strain that is able to degrade the NaOH-treated sheath of L. cholodnii was isolated. The isolate was a Gram-negative, aerobic and prosthecate bacterium. The optimum growth temperature and pH were 30 °C and pH 7.0, respectively. The DNA G+C content was 62.9 mol%. The major respiratory quinone was MK-6. A phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene indicated that the isolate is a member of the genus Prosthecobacter. The nearest relative was the type strain of Prosthecobacter vanneervenii, with a similarity of 97.1 %. However, the isolate does not possess the bacterial tubulin genes, btubA and btubB, unique to known species of the genus Prosthecobacter. It is proposed that the isolate represents a novel species, Prosthecobacter fluviatilis sp. nov. The type strain is HAQ-1T (=JCM 14805T =KACC 12649T =KCTC 22182T).", }