Title |
Halomonas sinaiensis sp. nov., a novel halophilic bacterium isolated from a salt lake inside Ras Muhammad Park, Egypt
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Published in |
Extremophiles, July 2007
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DOI | 10.1007/s00792-007-0100-3 |
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Authors |
Ida Romano, Licia Lama, Pierangelo Orlando, Barbara Nicolaus, Assunta Giordano, Agata Gambacorta |
Abstract |
An alkalitolerant and halotolerant bacterium, designated strain Sharm was isolated from a salt lake inside Ras Muhammad. The morphological, physiological and genetic characteristics were compared with those of related species of the genus Halomonas. The isolate grew optimally at pH 7.0, 5-15% NaCl at 35 degrees C. The cells were Gram-negative rods, facultative anaerobes. They accumulated glycine-betaine, as a major osmolyte, and ectoine and glutamate as minor components. The strain Sharm(T) biosynthetised alpha-glucosidase. The polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, and a novel phosphoglycolipid as major components. Ubiquinone with nine repetitive unities (Q9) was the only quinone found and, nC16:0 and C19:0 with cyclopropane were the main cellular fatty acids, accounting for 87.3% of total fatty acids. The G + C content of the genomic DNA was 64.7 mol %. The 16S rRNA sequence analysis indicated that strain Sharm was a member of the genus Halomonas. The closest relatives of the strain Sharm were Halomonas elongata and Halomonas eurihalina. However, DNA-DNA hybridisation results clearly indicated that strain Sham was a distinct species of Halomonas. On the basis of the evidence, we propose to assign strain Sharm as a new species of the genus Halomonas, H. sinaiensis sp. nov, with strain Sharm(T) as the type strain (DSM 18067(T); ATCC BAA-1308(T)). |
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