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Phylogenetic Heterogeneity Within the Genus Herpetosiphon: Transfer Of International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology (1998), 48, 731-737 Printed in Great Britain Phylogenetic heterogeneity within the genus Herpetosiphon:transfer of the marine species Herpetosiphon cohaerens, Herpetosiphon nigricans and Herpetosiphon persicus to the genus Leiwinella gen. nov. in the FIexibacter-Bacteroides-Cytophaga phyI urn L. I. Sly, M. Taghavit and M. Fegan Author for correspondence: L. I. Sly. Tel: +61 7 3365 2396. Fax: +61 7 3365 1566. e-mail : [email protected] Centre for Bacterial Analysis of the 16s rDNA sequences of species currently assigned to the genus Diversity and Herpetosiphon revealed intrageneric phylogenetic heterogeneity. The Identification, Department of thermotolerant freshwater species Herpetosiphon geysericola is most closely Microbiology, The related to the type species Herpetosiphon aurantiacus in the Chloroflexus University of Queensland, subdivision of the green non-sulf ur bacteria. The marine species Herpetosiphon Brisbane, Australia 4072 cohaerens, Herpetosiphon nigricans and Herpetosiphonpersicus, on the other hand, were found to form a cluster with the sheathed bacterium Haliscomenobacter hydrossis in the Saprospira group of the Flexibacter-Bacteroides-Cyfophaga (FBC) phylum. A proposal is made to transfer these marine species to the genus Lewinella gen. nov. as Lewinella cohaerens comb. nov., Lewinella nigricans comb. nov. and Lewinella persica comb. nov. The marine sheathed gliding bacterium Flexithrix dorotheae was also found to be a member of the FBC phylum but on a separate phylogenetic line to the marine herpetosiphons now assigned to the genus Lewinella. Keywords : Herpetosiphon, Lewinella gen. nov., Flexibacter-Bacteroides-Cytophaga phylum INTRODUCTION siphon cohaerens, Herpetosiphon nigricans and Her- petosiphon persicus, were described and a fourth species The genus Herpetosiphon currently contains five incorrectly classified as the cyanobacterium Phor- species (25,41) of gliding bacteria characterized by the midium geysericola was transferred to the genus as ability to form sheathed filaments (9, 20). The genus Herpetosiphon geysericola comb. nov (20). Lewin (19) and the type species Herpetosiphon aurantiacus were also described another flexuous gliding ensheathed first described in 1968 by Holt & Lewin (10). The genus marine species, Flexithrix dorotheae, which is dis- was assigned to the order Flexibacterales as defined by tinguished by its propensity for false branching and a Soriano & Lewin (43), and it was considered that H. lower DNA base composition. The DNA base corn- aurantiacus was an apochlorotic counterpart of the position of this species was 37.2 mol % G + C, which is cyanobacterium Lyngbya, supported at the time by well below the 45-53 mol YOG + C range for the species similar base composition of their DNA (24). In 1970, of Herpetosiphon (24). Flexithrix dorotheae and the three new marine species of Herpetosiphon, Herpeto- marine species of Herpetosiphon apparently have not been studied in detail since and very little new information is known about their characteristics. H. t Present address: College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. aurantiacus is known to belong to the Chloroflexus Abbreviation : FBC, Flexibacter-Bacteroides-Cy-tophaga. subdivision of the green non-sulfur bacteria (7, 30, 50) The GenBank accession numbers for the rDNA sequences of Herpetosiphon but the intrageneric relationships of the species of geysericola ATCC 23076T, Lewinella cohaerens ATCC 23 123T, Lewinella nigricans ATCC 23147T, Lewinella persica ATCC 23167T and Flexithrix Herpetosiphon have been based on phenotypic charac- dorotheae ATCC 231 63T reported in this paper are AF039292-AF039296, teristics (9, 10, 20, 36) and DNA base composition respectively. data (24). In this paper we report the determination 00621 0 1998lUMS 731 L. I. Sly, M. Taghavi and M. Fegan and analysis of the 16s rDNA sequences for the type ATCC 23 16 1, M60455 ; ' Microscilla furvescens ', ATCC strains of the species currently assigned to the genus 23129, M58792; Rhodothermus marinus, X77140; Runella Herpetosiphon, which revealed that the marine species slithyformis ATCC 29530T, M62786; Saprospira grandis are phylogentically unrelated to the freshwater species, ATCC 231 19T,M58795; Spirosoma linguale ATCC 23276, M62789 ; Thermomicrobium roseum ATCC 27502T,M34115 ; including the type species of the genus, H. aurantiacus. and Thermonema lapsum, L11703. Consequently, we propose that these marine species be transferred to the genus Lewinella gen. nov. named in honour of Professor Ralph Lewin who first described RESULTS AND DISCUSSION these bacteria. Comparison of the 16s rDNA sequences of the species of Herpetosiphon has revealed phylogenetic hetero- METHODS geneity within the genus unexpected from previous limited knowledge of their phenotypic and genotypic Bacterial cultures. Cultures of Herpetosiphon cohaerens ATCC 23 123T, Herpetosiphon geysericola ATCC 23076', characteristics. Almost complete 16s rDNA sequences Herpetosiphon nigricans ATCC 23 147T, Herpetosiphon per- (> 1417 nucleotides) were obtained for the type strains sicus ATCC 23 167T and Flexithrix dorotheae ATCC 23 163T of the species H. cohaerens, H. geysericola, H. nigricans were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection, and H. persicus. The 16s rDNA sequences were Rockville, MD, USA. compared with the known sequence available for the 16s rDNA sequencing methods. Direct PCR amplification of type strain of H. aurantiacus and other reference 16s rDNA was performed as previously described (46). The sequences required to phylogenetically position the PCR products were purified using Promega Magic PCR species of Herpetosiphon. Prep DNA Purification according to the manufacturer's instructions. The PRISM Ready Reaction DyeDeoxy Ter- Knowledge of the phylogenetic position of the genus minator Cycle Sequencing Kit (Applied Biosystems) was Herpetosiphon has been based on data obtained for the used with the primers 27f, 926f, 1114f, 357r, 519r, 907r, type species H. aurantiacus. Evidence obtained from 1100r, 1392r and 1525r (15) and 787r and 803f (44) to 16s rRNA oligonucleotide catalogues (7, 50) and 16s directly sequence the PCR products, following the protocol rRNA sequences (30) has shown that this species provided by the manufacturer. The reaction mixtures were belongs to the green non-sulfur bacteria together with sequenced automatically on an Applied Biosystems 373A ChloroJEexusand Thermomicrobium. This relationship DNA Sequencer. between Herpetosiphon and ChloroJEexusis supported Data analysis. The 16s rDNA sequences were aligned by their unusual cell wall composition (11, 12). The manually using the ae2 editor with representative bacterial analysis of the 16s rDNA sequences for the other 16s rRNA gene sequences from the RNA Database Project Herpetosiphon species obtained in the present study (22) and GenBank. Positions where length and sequence showed that the thermotolerant freshwater species H. variations made alignment uncertain were omitted from the geysericola was phylogenetically related to H. aur- analysis. Pairwise evolutionary distances were computed antiacus in the green non-sulfur phylum, but that the using the method of Jukes & Cantor (13) in the DNADIST program in the PHYLIP 3.52 software package (5). Phylo- genetic dendrograms were constructed using the neighbour- joining method of Saitou & Nei (40) and by the parsimony Deinococcus ra diodura ns method using DNAPARS in PHYLIP. Bootstrap analyses using SEQBOOT PHYLIP 3.52 were performed to determine the statistical significance of branching patterns and consensus Meiothermus ruber trees (not shown) were produced using CONSENSE (PHYLIP 3.5c). Chloroflexus a uran tiacus Reference sequence accession numbers and strain numbers (where available) used in the phylogenetic analyses were as A- ,oo THerpetosiphongeysericola follows : Bacteroides fragilis, M6 1006 ; Chlorobium vibrio- forme DSM 260T,M62791; ChloroJEexusaurantiacus ATCC Herpetosiphon aurantiacus 29366T, M34116; Cyclobacterium marinus ATCC 43824, 41 '""L M62788 ; Cytophaga difluens ATCC 23 140, M58765 ; Cyto- IThermomicrobium roseum phaga hutchinsonii ATCC 33406', M58768 ; Deinococcus radiodurans ATCC 35073, M2 14 13 ; Empedobacter brevis ATCC 14234, M59052 ; Flavobacterium aquatile ATCC 11947', M62797 ; Flavobacterium ferrugineum ATCC 0.1 13524T, M62798 ; Flectobacillus major ATCC 29496T, M62787 ; Flexibacter aggregans ATCC 23 162T, M64628 ; Flexibacter canadensis ATCC 2959 1T, M62793 ; Flexibacter Fig. 1. Phylogenetic tree constructed by the neighbour-joining litoralis ATCC 23 11 7T, M58784 ;Flexibacter roseolus ATCC method showing the relationships of species of the genus 2308gT,M58787; Flexibacter ruber ATCC 23103T,M58788 ; Herpetosiphon in the green non-sulfur phylum. The sequence of Deinococcus radiodurans was used as the outgroup. Flexibacter sancti ATCC 23092T, M62795 ; Haliscomeno- Bootstrap values of 100 analyses are shown at the top of the bacter hydrossis ATCC 27775T, M58790 ; Herpetosiphon branching points for the neighbour-joining analysis and below aurantiacus ATCC 23779T, M34117 ; Meiothermus ruber (in italics) for the parsimony analysis. The scale bar represents ATCC 3594gT, Z 15059 ; ' Microscilla aggregans subsp. cat- 10 nucleotide substitutions per 100 nucleotides of 165 rDNA alatica' ATCC 23 190, M5879 1 ; ' Microscilla arenaria' sequence. 732 International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 48 Heterogeneity within genus Herpetosiphon three marine species H. cohaerens, H.
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