%0 Journal Article %A Yamamura, Shigeki %A Yamashita, Mitsuo %A Fujimoto, Noriyuki %A Kuroda, Masashi %A Kashiwa, Masami %A Sei, Kazunari %A Fujita, Masanori %A Ike, Michihiko %T Bacillus selenatarsenatis sp. nov., a selenate- and arsenate-reducing bacterium isolated from the effluent drain of a glass-manufacturing plant %D 2007 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 57 %N 5 %P 1060-1064 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64667-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A facultatively anaerobic, selenate- and arsenate-reducing bacterium, designated strain SF-1T, was isolated from a selenium-contaminated sediment obtained from an effluent drain of a glass-manufacturing plant in Japan. The bacterium stained Gram-positive and was a motile, spore-forming rod capable of respiring with selenate, arsenate and nitrate as terminal electron acceptors. The major cellular fatty acids of the strain were iso-C15 : 0, iso-C17 : 1 ω10c and C16 : 1 ω7c alcohol. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 42.8 mol%. Though the nearest phylogenetic neighbour was Bacillus jeotgali JCM 10885T, with a 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity of 99.6 %, DNA–DNA hybridization studies showed only 14 % relatedness between these strains, a level that is clearly below the value recommended to delimit different species. This, together with the phenotypic differences (utilization of electron acceptors, NaCl tolerance), suggests that strain SF-1T represents a novel species of the genus Bacillus, for which the name Bacillus selenatarsenatis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is SF-1T (=JCM 14380T=DSM 18680T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.64667-0