@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001941, author = "Minegishi, Hiroaki and Enomoto, Shigeaki and Echigo, Akinobu and Shimane, Yasuhiro and Kondo, Yusuke and Inoma, Ayumi and Kamekura, Masahiro and Takai, Ken and Itoh, Takashi and Ohkuma, Moriya and Ihara, Kunio and Takahashi-Ando, Naoko and Fukushima, Yasumasa and Ishii, Shigeru and Yoshida, Yasuhiko and Usami, Ron", title = "Salinarchaeum chitinilyticum sp. nov., a chitin-degrading haloarchaeon isolated from commercial salt", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2017", volume = "67", number = "7", pages = "2274-2278", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001941", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001941", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "Haloarchaea", keywords = "commercial salt", keywords = "chitin degrading", keywords = "Salinarchaeum", abstract = "Two chitin-degrading halophilic archaeal strains, MC-74T and MC-23, were isolated from commercial salt samples. Cells were motile, rod-shaped and stained Gram-negative. Colonies were vermillion-pigmented. Strains MC-74T and MC-23 were able to grow with 1.5–5.1 M NaCl (optimum, 2.6–3.1 M) at pH 6.0–10.0 (optimum, pH 7.0) and at 20–50 °C (optimum, 40 °C). The orthologous 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity between the two strains was 99.8 %, and the closest phylogenetic relative was Salinarchaeum laminariae JCM 17267T with 99.3–99.5 % similarity. The level of DNA–DNA relatedness between the two strains was 93 and 94 % (reciprocally), and those between the two strains and Salinarchaeum laminariae JCM 17267T were 35–36 % and 38–39 % (reciprocally). The polar lipids of both strains were phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol phosphate methyl ester and phosphatidylglycerol sulfate. Glycolipids were not detected. Based on the phenotypic and phylogenetic analyses, the strains represent a novel species of the genus Salinarchaeum , for which the name Salinarchaeum chitinilyticum sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is MC-74T (=JCM 19597T=KCTC 4262T), isolated from solar salt produced in France. Strain MC-23, isolated from a commercial solar salt sample produced in China, is an additional strain of the species.", }