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Abstract

Three anaerobic bacterial strains were isolated from the digestive tract of the medicinal leech , using mucin as the primary carbon and energy source. These strains, designated M3, M4 and M6, were Gram-stain-negative, non-spore-forming and non-motile. Cells were elongated bacilli approximately 2.4 µm long and 0.6 µm wide. Growth only occurred anaerobically under mesophilic and neutral pH conditions. All three strains could utilize multiple simple and complex sugars as carbon sources, with glucose fermented to acid by-products. The DNA G+C contents of strains M3, M4 and M6 were 44.9, 44.8 and 44.8 mol%, respectively. The major cellular fatty acid of strain M3 was iso-C. Phylogenetic analysis of full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that the three strains shared >99 % similarity with each other and represent a new lineage within the family of the order , phylum . The most closely related bacteria to strain M3 based on 16S rRNA gene sequences were DSM 15922 (87.3 % similarity) and AHN 2437 (87.4 %). On the basis of phenotypic, genotypic and physiological evidence, strains M3, M4 and M6 are proposed as representing a novel species of a new genus within the family , for which the name gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of is M3 ( = ATCC BAA-2553 = DSM 27344).

Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • NSF (Award MCB 0448052)
  • NIH (Award R01 GM095390)
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