Abstract
A novel halophilic archaeon designated strain CBA1114T was isolated from solar salt in the Republic of Korea. Strain CBA1114T, cells of which were coccoid and Gram-stain-negative, grew in the presence of 15–30 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum, 20 %) and at 20–50 °C (optimum, 40 °C) and pH 7.0–9.0 (optimum, pH 8.0). Strain CBA1114T required Mg2+ for growth. Strain CBA1114T had three 16S rRNA genes, rrnA, rrnB and rrnC; levels of similarity between the sequences were 99.7–99.9 %. The 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain CBA1114T showed 91.7 % similarity to that of Haloterrigena thermotolerans PR5T. In multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA), five housekeeping genes, atpB, EF-2, radA, rpoB’ and secY, were found to be closely related to those of the members of the genera Halorientalis(89.7 % similarity of the atpB gene sequence), Halomicroarcula(91.9 %, EF-2), Haloterrigena(85.4 %, radA), Natronoarchaeum (89.2 %, rpoB’) and Natrinema(75.7 %, secY). A phylogenetic tree generated from the results of MLSA of the five housekeeping genes showed that strain CBA1114T was closely related to species of the genus Halorientalis in the family Halobacteriaceae. The major polar lipids were identified as phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol phosphate methyl ester and unidentified lipids. The G+C content of the genomic DNA of strain CBA1114T was 68.1 mol%. According to the results of phylogenetic, phenotypic and chemotaxonomic analyses, we designate strain CBA1114T (=JCM 30111T=KCTC 4206T) as the type strain of Halostella salina gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel species of a new genus within the family Halobacteriaceae.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 001118 |
Pages (from-to) | 2740-2746 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology |
Volume | 66 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 2016 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2015R1D1A1A09061039), a grant from the Korea Food Research Institute (project no. E0143023840), a project fund (C36703) to J.S. C. from the Center for Analytical Research of Disaster Science at the Korea Basic Science Institute, and the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (MSIP) (2014, R&D Equipment Engineer Education Program, 2013R1A6A9067028).
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