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Published on: January 7, 2019
Exiguobacterium algae sp. nov. and Exiguobacterium qingdaonense sp. nov., two novel moderately halotolerant bacteria
Fangming Liu1, Yangjie Li2, Wenxuan He3,4
1First Institute of Oceanography (FIO), Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) of China, Qingdao, 266061, China.
Abstract:
Two Gram-stain-positive, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterial strains, S126T and S82T, were isolated from coastal algae of China. Strains S126T and S82T are halotolerant and could grow in the presence of 0-13% NaCl and 0-14% NaCl, respectively. The two strains shared 98.9% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with each other and 93.4-99.8% similarity with type strains of Exiguobacterium species. The major fatty acids (> 10%) of strains S126T and S82T were iso-C17:0, iso-C13:0, anteiso-C13:0 and iso-C15:0. The predominant quinones of strains S126T and S82T were MK-7 and MK-8. The polar lipid profiles of strain S126T and S82T contained diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylethanolamine. The cell-wall peptidoglycans of both strains S126T and S82T were of the A3α L-Lys-Gly type. The average nucleotide identity (ANI) and average nucleotide index (AAI) between strains S126T and S82T and type strains of Exiguobacterium species were all below the thresholds to discriminate bacterial species, indicating that they constitute two novel species in the genus Exiguobacterium. Based on polyphasic taxonomy characterization and genomic aspects, the names Exiguobacterium algae sp. nov. and Exiguobacterium qingdaonense sp. nov. are proposed for the two novel species, with type strains being S126T (= CGMCC 1.17116T = KCTC 43079 T) and S82T (= CGMCC 1.17115T = KCTC 43078T), respectively.
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