@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.65294-0, author = "Albuquerque, Luciana and Rainey, Fred A. and Nobre, M. Fernanda and da Costa, Milton S.", title = "Elioraea tepidiphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a slightly thermophilic member of the Alphaproteobacteria", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2008", volume = "58", number = "4", pages = "773-778", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65294-0", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.65294-0", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "BChl, bacteriochlorophyll", abstract = "A bacterial isolate, strain TU-7T, with an optimum growth temperature of about 45–50 °C and an optimum pH for growth between 8.0 and 8.5, was recovered from a hot spring in the Furnas area of the island of São Miguel in the Azores. The new isolate is non-pigmented, facultatively chemolithoorganotrophic, strictly aerobic and catalase- and oxidase-positive. The organism oxidized thiosulfate to sulfate with enhancement of growth. This organism assimilated organic acids but did not assimilate carbohydrates or polyols. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis placed strain TU-7T within the radiation of the Alphaproteobacteria as a deep branch of the family Acetobacteriaceae. The major fatty acids of strain TU-7T are 18 : 1ω7c, 18 : 0, 19 : 0 cyclo ω8c and an aliphatic chain with an equivalent chain-length of 20.195, identified as 19 : 0 2-OH cyclo ω8 (Δ11 : 12). Ubiquinone 10 is the major respiratory quinone and the major polar lipids are phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, diphosphosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylglycerol in addition to two unidentified aminolipids. Bacteriochlorophyll a and puf genes were not detected. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis and physiological and biochemical characteristics, we describe a novel species of a new genus represented by strain TU-7T, for which we propose the name Elioraea tepidiphila gen. nov., sp. nov. The type strain of Elioraea tepidiphila is strain TU-7T (=DSM 17972T =CIP 109115T).", }