Halobacillus locisalis sp. nov., a halophilic bacterium isolated from a marine solar saltern of the Yellow Sea in Korea

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Title
Halobacillus locisalis sp. nov., a halophilic bacterium isolated from a marine solar saltern of the Yellow Sea in Korea
Author(s)
Jung-Hoon Yoon; K H Kang; Tae Kwang Oh; Yong Ha Park
Bibliographic Citation
Extremophiles, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 23-28
Publication Year
2004
Abstract
A Gram-positive, motile, endospore-forming and rod-shaped halophilic bacterial strain MSS-155 (KCTC 3788 and KCCM 41687) was isolated from a marine solar saltern of the Yellow Sea in Korea and was subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic study. This organism grew at temperature of 10.0-42.0°C with an optimum of 35°C. Strain MSS-155 grew optimally in the presence of 10% NaCl and did not grow in the absence of NaCl. The cell wall peptidoglycan type of strain MSS-155 was A4β based on l-Orn-d-Asp. Strain MSS-155 was also characterized chemotaxonomically by having menaquinone-7 (MK-7) as the predominant isoprenoid quinone and anteiso-C15:0 as the major fatty acid. The DNA G+C content was 44.0 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rDNA sequences showed that strain MSS-155 falls within the radiation of the cluster comprising Halobacillus species. Levels of 16S rDNA sequence similarity between strain MSS-155 and the type strains of four Halobacillus species were in the range 97.6-98.8%. Strain MSS-155 exhibited levels of DNA-DNA relatedness of 6.2-11.2% to the type strains of Halobacillus species described previously. On the basis of phenotypic properties, phylogeny, and genomic data, strain MSS-155 should be placed in the genus Halobacillus as a member of a novel species, for which we propose the name Halobacillus locisalis sp. nov.
Keyword
Halobacillus locisalis sp. nov.Halophilic bacteriumMarine solar salternPolyphasic taxonomyYellow Sea
ISSN
1431-0651
Publisher
Springer
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00792-003-0352-5
Type
Article
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Division of Biomedical Research > Metabolic Regulation Research Center > 1. Journal Articles
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