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sp. nov., a magnesium-dependent haloarchaeon isolated from commercial salt Free

Abstract

Two extremely halophilic archaea, strains MGY-184 and MGY-205, were isolated from sea salt produced in Japan and rock salt imported from Bolivia, respectively. Both strains were pleomorphic, non-motile, Gram-negative and required more than 5 % (w/v) NaCl for growth, with optimum at 9–12 %, in the presence of 2 % (w/v) MgCl . 6HO. In the presence of 18 % (w/v) MgCl . 6HO, however, both strains showed growth even at 1.0 % (w/v) NaCl. Both strains possessed two 16S rRNA genes ( and ), and they revealed closest similarity to JCM 9908, the single species with a validly published name of the genus , with similarity of 97.8 %. The and genes of both strains were 100 % similar. The genes were 97.6 % similar to the genes in both strains. DNA G+C contents of strains MGY-184 and MGY-205 were 67.0 and 67.4 mol%, respectively. Polar lipid analysis revealed that the two strains contained phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylglycerol phosphate methyl ester derived from CC archaeol. The DNA–DNA hybridization value between the two strains was 70 % and both strains showed low levels of DNA–DNA relatedness (48–50 %) with JCM 9908. Physiological and biochemical characteristics allowed differentiation of strains MGY-184 and MGY-205 from JCM 9908. Therefore, strains MGY-184 and MGY-205 represent a novel species of the genus , for which the name sp. nov. is proposed; the type strain is MGY-184 ( = JCM 17821 = KCTC 4100).

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