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sp. nov., an agar-degrading haloarchaeon isolated from commercial salt Free

Abstract

Two agar-degrading halophilic archaeal strains, 62E and 197A, were isolated from commercial salt samples. Cells were non-motile cocci, approximately 1.2–2.0 µm in diameter and stained Gram-negative. Colonies were pink-pigmented. Strain 62E was able to grow with 24–30 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum, 27 %), at pH 6.5–8.5 (optimum, pH 7.5) and at 22–47 °C (optimum, 42 °C). The 16S rRNA gene sequences of strains 62E and 197A were identical, and the level of DNA–DNA relatedness between them was 90 and 90 % (reciprocally). The closest relative was JCM 8878 with 99.7 % similarity in 16S rRNA orthologous gene sequences, followed by JCM 9578 (99.6 %), while similarities with other species of the genus were equal to or lower than 95.1 %. The gene tree strongly supported that the two strains were members of the genus . Mean DNA–DNA relatedness between strain 62E and JCM 8878 and JCM 9578 was 46 and 44 %, respectively. The major polar lipids were archaeol derivatives of phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol phosphate methyl ester, derived from both CC and CC archaeol, and sulfated diglycosyl archaeol-1. Several unidentified glycolipids were present. Based on the phenotypic and phylogenetic analyses, the isolates are considered to represent a novel species of the genus , for which the name sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 62E ( = JCM 19592 = KCTC 4143).

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  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan (Award B 25840142)
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Halococcus agarilyticus sp. nov., an agar-degrading haloarchaeon isolated from commercial salt
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