Spiribacter curvatus sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a saltern
León, María José and Rodríguez-Olmos, Ángel and Sánchez-Porro, Cristina and López-Pérez, Mario and Rodríguez-Valera, Francisco and Soliveri, Juan and Ventosa, Antonio and Copa-Patiño, José Luis,, 65, 4638-4643 (2015),
doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000621,
publicationName = Microbiology Society,
issn = 1466-5026,
abstract= A novel pink-pigmented bacterial strain, UAH-SP71T, was isolated from a saltern located in Santa Pola, Alicante (Spain) and the complete genome sequence was analysed and compared with that of Spiribacter salinus M19-40T, suggesting that the two strains constituted two separate species, with a 77.3 % ANI value. In this paper, strain UAH-SP71T was investigated in a taxonomic study using a polyphasic approach. Strain UAH-SP71T was a Gram-stain-negative, strictly aerobic, non-motile curved rod that grew in media containing 5–20 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum 10 % NaCl), at 5–40 °C (optimum 37 °C) and at pH 5–10 (optimum pH 8). Phylogenetic analysis based on the comparison of 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain UAH-SP71T is a member of the genus Spiribacter, showing a sequence similarity of 96.5 % with Spiribacter salinus M19-40T. Other related species are also members of the family Ectothiorhodospiraceae, including Arhodomonas recens RS91T (95.5 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity), Arhodomonas aquaeolei ATCC 49307T (95.4 %) and Alkalilimnicola ehrlichii MLHE-1T (94.9 %). DNA–DNA hybridization between strain UAH-SP71T and Spiribacter salinus M19-40T was 39 %. The major cellular fatty acids of strain UAH-SP71T were C18 : 1ω6c and/or C18 : 1ω7c, C16 : 0, C16 : 1ω6c and/or C16 : 1ω7c, C10 : 0 3-OH and C12 : 0, a pattern similar to that of Spiribacter salinus M19-40T. Phylogenetic, phenotypic and genotypic differences between strain UAH-SP71T and Spiribacter salinus M19-40T indicate that strain UAH-SP71T represents a novel species of the genus Spiribacter, for which the name Spiribacter curvatus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is UAH-SP71T ( = CECT 8396T = DSM 28542T).,
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