sp. nov., a facultatively methanotrophic bacterium from acidic peat, and emended description of the genus ( Whittenbury 1970) Bowman 1993 Free

Abstract

A novel species is proposed for two facultatively methanotrophic representatives of the genus , strains H2s and S284, which were isolated from an acidic (pH 4.3) peat-bog lake (Teufelssee, Germany) and an acidic (pH 3.8) peat bog (European North Russia), respectively. Cells of strains H2s and S284 are aerobic, Gram-negative, non-motile, curved coccoids or short rods that contain an intracytoplasmic membrane system typical of type-II methanotrophs. They possess both a soluble and a particulate methane monooxygenase (MMO); the latter is represented by two isozymes, pMMO1 and pMMO2. The preferred growth substrates are methane and methanol. In the absence of C substrates, however, these methanotrophs are capable of slow growth on acetate. Atmospheric nitrogen is fixed by means of an aerotolerant nitrogenase. Strains H2s and S284 grow between pH 4.2 and 7.6 (optimum pH 6.0–6.5) and at 8–37 °C (optimum 25–30 °C). The major fatty acids are Cω8, Cω7 and Cω7; the major quinone is Q-8. The DNA G+C content is 62.0–62.3 mol%. Strains H2s and S284 share identical 16S rRNA gene sequences, which displayed 96.6–97.3 % similarity to sequences of other taxonomically characterized members of the genus Therefore, strains H2s and S284 are classified as members of a novel species, for which the name sp. nov. is proposed; strain H2s ( = DSM 21852  = VKM B-2545) is the type strain.

Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • Program ‘Molecular and Cell Biology’
  • Russian Fund of Basic Research (Award 12-04-00768 and 09-04-91332)
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