gen. nov., sp. nov., a chemolithoautotrophic nitrite-oxidizing bacterium isolated from a bioreactor belonging to the phylum Free

Abstract

A novel nitrite-oxidizing bacterium (NOB), strain Lb, was isolated from a nitrifying bioreactor with a high loading of ammonium bicarbonate in a mineral medium with nitrite as the energy source. The cells were oval (lancet-shaped) rods with pointed edges, non-motile, Gram-positive (by staining and from the cell wall structure) and non-spore-forming. Strain Lb was an obligately aerobic, chemolitoautotrophic NOB, utilizing nitrite or formate as the energy source and CO as the carbon source. Ammonium served as the only source of assimilated nitrogen. Growth with nitrite was optimal at pH 6.8–7.5 and at 40 °C (maximum 46 °C). The membrane lipids consisted of C alkyl 1,2-diols with the dominant fatty acids being 10MeC and C. The peptidoglycan lacked -DAP but contained ornithine and lysine. The dominant lipoquinone was MK-8. Phylogenetic analyses of the 16s rRNA gene sequence placed strain Lb into the class of the phylum with as the closest relative. On the basis of physiological and phylogenetic data, it is proposed that strain Lb represents a novel species of a new genus, with the suggested name gen. nov., sp. nov. The type strain of the type species is Lb ( = DSM 23161 = UNIQEM U798).

Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • RFBR (Award 13-04-40205)
  • Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (Award MSM 6046137308)
  • Vienna Science and Technology Fund (Award LS09-40)
  • Austrian Research Fund (Award P24101-B22)
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