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Abstract

An anaerobic, moderately thermophilic, terminal-spore-forming bacterium, designated strain USBA A, was isolated from a terrestrial hot spring located at an altitude of 2683 m in the Andean region of Colombia (04° 50′ 14.0″ N 75° 32′ 53.4″ W). Cells of strain USBA A were Gram-stain-positive, straight to slightly curved rods (0.9×2.5 µm), that were arranged singly or in pairs, and were motile by means of flagella. Growth occurred at 37–55 °C and pH 6.0–8.0, with a doubling time of 2 h under the optimal conditions (50 °C and pH 7.0). Glucose fermentation in strain USBA A required yeast extract or peptone (each at 0.2 %, w/v). The novel strain fermented sugars, amino acids, Casamino acids, propanol, propionate, starch and dextrin, but no growth was observed on galactose, lactose, xylose, histidine, serine, threonine, benzoate, butyrate, lactate, pyruvate, succinate, methanol, ethanol, glycerol, casein, gelatin or xylan. The end products of glucose fermentation were formate, acetate, ethanol and lactate. Strain USBA A did not grow autotrophically (with CO as carbon source and H as electron donor) and did not reduce thiosulfate, sulfate, elemental sulfur, sulfite, vanadium (V) or Fe (III) citrate. Growth of strain USBA A was inhibited by ampicillin, chloramphenicol, kanamycin, penicillin and streptomycin (each at 10 µg ml). The predominant fatty acids were iso-C, C and iso-C and the genomic DNA G+C content was 32.6 mol%. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated that strain USBA A belonged in the phylum and that its closest relative was JW/MS-VS5 (95.0 % sequence similarity). A DNA–DNA relatedness value of only 30 % was recorded in hybridization experiments between strain USBA A and DSM 13723. Based on the phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic evidence and the results of the DNA–DNA hybridization experiments, strain USBA A represents a novel species of the genus , for which the name sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is USBA A ( = CMPUJ U833  = DSM 22093).

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This study was supported by the:
  • International Foundation for Science
  • Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovación
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