Raineya orbicola gen. nov., sp nov a slightly thermophilic bacterium of the phylum Bacteroidetes and the description of Raineyaceae fam. nov.

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2018

Authors

Albuquerque, L (Author) Other; Polonia, ARM (Author) Other; Barroso, C (Author) Other; Froufe, HJC (Author) Other; lage, om (Author) FCUP; Lobo da Cunha, A (Author) Other; Egas, C (Author) Other; da Costa, MS (Author) Other

Journal

Title: International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Vol. 68

Pages: 982-989

ISSN: 1466-5026

Publisher: Microbiology Society

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Authenticus ID: P-00N-VSA

DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.002556

Abstract (EN): An isolate, designated SPSPC-11(T), with an optimum growth temperature of about 50 degrees C and an optimum pH for growth between 7.5 and 8.0, was recovered from a hot spring in central Portugal. Based on phylogenetic analysis of its 16S rRNA sequence, the new organism is most closely related to the species of the genus Thermonema but with a pairwise sequence similarity of <85 %. The isolate was orange-pigmented, formed non-motile long filaments and rod-shaped cells that stain Gram-negative. The organism was strictly aerobic, oxidase-positive and catalase-positive. The major fatty acids were iso-C-15 : 0, iso-C-15 : 0 2-OH and iso-C-17 : 0 3-OH. The major polar lipids were one aminophospholipid, two aminolipids and three unidentified lipids. Menaquinone 7 was the major respiratory quinone. The DNA G+C content of strain SPSPC-11(T) was 37.6 mol% (draft genome sequence). The high quality draft genome sequence corroborated many of the phenotypic characteristics of strain SPSPC-11(T). Based on genotypic, phylogenetic, physiological and biochemical characterization we describe a new species of a novel genus represented by strain SPSPC-11(T) (= CECT 9012(T) = LMG 29233(T)) for which we propose the name Raineya orbicola gen. nov., sp. nov. We also describe the family Raineyaceae to accommodate this new genus and species.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8