Halomonas ramblicola sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium from Rambla Salada, a Mediterranean hypersaline rambla
Luque, Rocío and Béjar, Victoria and Quesada, Emilia and Martínez-Checa, Fernando and Llamas, Inmaculada,, 62, 2903-2909 (2012),
doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.039453-0,
publicationName = Microbiology Society,
issn = 1466-5026,
abstract= A moderately halophilic bacterium (strain RS-16T) was isolated from saline soil in Rambla Salada, a Mediterranean hypersaline rambla in Murcia, south-east Spain. Cells of strain RS-16T were Gram-negative rods, oxidase-negative and motile by peritrichous flagella. Strain RS-16T required NaCl for growth, and grew between 1 % and 30 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum, 5–7.5 %), at temperatures of between 4 °C and 41 °C (optimum, 32–37 °C), and at pH values of between 5 and 10 (optimum, pH 7). Strain RS-16T was chemo-organotrophic and its metabolism was respiratory with oxygen and nitrate as terminal electron acceptors. It produced acids from d-glucose and myo-inositol, accumulated poly-β-hydroxyalkanoate granules and produced cream colonies on MY 7.5 % (w/v). The DNA G+C content of strain RS-16T was 56.2 mol%. A comparison of 16S rRNA gene sequences confirmed the relationship of strain RS-16T to species of the genus Halomonas . The most phylogenetically related species was Halomonas cerina SP4T (97.4 %16S rRNA gene sequence similarity). In DNA–DNA hybridization assays strain RS-16T showed DNA–DNA relatedness values of 62.7±3.09 %, 64.5±1.97 % and 64.7±1.74 % to Halomonas cerina CECT 7282T, Halomonas cerina CECT 7284 and Halomonas cerina CECT 7283, respectively. The major fatty acids of strain RS-16T were C18 : 1ω7c and C16 : 0, and the predominant respiratory lipoquinone was ubiquinone, with nine isoprene units (Q-9). On the basis of these data, strain RS-16T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Halomonas , for which the name Halomonas ramblicola sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is RS-16T ( = CECT 7896T = LMG 26647T).,
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