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INTERNATIONALJOURNAL OF SYSTEMATICBACTERIOLOGY, July 1993, p. 405-413 Vol. 43, No. 3 0020-7713/93/030405-09$02.00/0 Copyright 0 1993, International Union of Microbiological Societies Mycobacterium brumae sp. nov., a Rapidly Growing, Nonphotochromogenic Mycobacterium M. LUQUIN,132*V. AUSINA,1,2 V. VINCENT-LEVY-FREBAULT,3 M. A. LvEELLE,4 F. BELDA,172 M. GARCiA-BARCEL0,172G. PRATS,' AND M. DAFFE4 Servicio de Microbiologia, Hospital de la Santa Cruz y San Pablo, Departamento de Genttica y Microbiolog*a, Universidad Autbnoma de Barcelona, 08025 Barcelona, ' and Servicio de Microbiolog'a, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Departamento de Genetica y Microbiolog'a, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, 08915 Badalona, Spain, and Unite de la Tuberculose et des Mycobactkries, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris Cedex 15,3 and Departement III du LPTF du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifque et Universitk Paul Sabatier, 31062 Toulouse Ceda, France Strains of a new species of rapidly growing, nonphotochromogenic mycobacteria, Mycobacterium brumae, have been isolated from water, soil, and human sputum samples in Barcelona, Spain. The inclusion of this organism in the genus Mycobacterium is based on its acid-alcohol fastness, its DNA G+C content, its mycolate pattern, and its mycolate pyrolysis esters. A study of 11 strains showed that they form a homogeneous group with an internal phenotypic similarity value of 94.9 +, 3.7%. The results of a comparison with 39 other mycobacterial species and subspecies are also presented. DNA relatedness studies showed that the M. brumae strains studied form a single DNA hybridization group which is less than 30% related to 15 other species of the genus Mycobacterium. Thin-layer chromatographic analysis showed that only a-mycolates are present. Unlike Mycobacterium fallux and Mycobacterium triviale a-mycolates, M. brumae a-mycolates release only 22-carbon atom esters after pyrolysis. Strain CR-270 is the type strain; a culture of this strain has been deposited in the Collection Nationale de Cultures de Microorganismes de 1'Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, as strain CIP 103465. From 1983 to 1987, in the course of a search for mycobac- new strains give only docosanoate when they are subjected teria in environmental samples, we isolated 10 strains with to pyrolytical cleavage. A subsequent structural analysis homogeneous properties belonging to the genus Mycobacte- showed that there are great differences in the compositions rium. Later, in 1991, a similar strain was isolated from a of the a-mycolates of these strains and the a-mycolates of human sputum sample. These organisms were rapidly grow- M. fallax and M. triviale. Genotypically, there was clear ing, nonphotochromogenic mycobacteria that differed from evidence for differentiation of these organisms, since the all known species and are considered members of a new levels of DNA-DNA hybridization between the strains of the species. These strains had a colonial morphology similar to new taxon and other related species were less than 30%. In that of Mycobacterium falZax and the same pattern of this paper, we describe the characteristics of these strains mycolates (only a-mycolates) as determined by thin-layer and designate a new species, Mycobacterium brumae. chromatography (TLC) (16). Mycobacterium triviale is the only slowly growing Mycobacterium species with this pat- tern of mycolates (4,16). Mycolic acids are useful taxonomic MATERIALS AND METHODS markers for the differentiation of mycobacteria at both the Bacterial strains. A total of 11 strains were studied. Eight genus level and the species level. Mycobacterial mycolic of these (strains CR-103, CR-104, CR-142, CR-210, CR-267, acids are characteristically 2-branched7 3-hydroxy fatty ac- CR-268, CR-270T [T = type strain], and CR-271) were ids with very long chains (up to 90 carbon atoms long) which isolated from water samples taken from the Llobregat River are major lipid constituents in the cell wall (4, 7). By TLC in Barcelona, Spain; two strains (strains CR-130 and CR-269) they may be separated into seven types according to the were isolated from soil; and one strain (strain CR-148) was content and position of different functional groups in their isolated from a human sputum sample. In addition to these carbon chains (18,19). Mycolic acid methyl esters release by 11 isolates, we studied the following strains of species which pyrolysis straight esters with carbon chain lengths ranging are on the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names (24) or in the from C,, to C,, (4,12,17). Within the genus Mycobacterium, Index of the Bacterial and Yeast Nomenclatural Changes variation in the pyrolysis ester chain lengths is an additional (20): Mycobacterium agn' ATCC 27406=; Mycobacterium differential characteristic that is especially useful for subdi- aichiense ATCC 27280T; Mycobacterium aurum ATCC viding groups of species that produce the same TLC pattern. 23366T; Mycobacterium austroafncanum ATCC 33464T; The strains of the new species could be clearly distinguished Mycobacterium chelonae subsp. chelonae NCTC 946= and from M. fallax and M triviale by the chain lengths of their CIPT 801159; Mycobacterium chelonae subsp. abscessus pyrolysis esters. Esters containing 22 and 24 carbon atoms ATCC 19977T;Mycobacterium chitae ATCC 19627T; Myco- were released by a-mycolates of M. fallax, and tetra- bacterium chubuense ATCC 27278T; Mycobacterium diem- cosanoate was the only ester liberated by M. triviale a-my- hoferi ATCC 19340T; Mycobacterium duvalii NCTC 358=; colates (14, 16, 17, 22). In contrast, the a-mycolates of the Mycobacterium fallax CIP 8139T, CIPT 1390007, and CIPT 1390014; Mycobacterium jlavescens ATCC 14474T; Myco- bacterium fortuitum ATCC 6841T and ATCC 14467; Myco- * Corresponding author. bacterium gadium ATCC 27726T; Mycobacterium gastri 405 406 LUQUIN ET AL. INT.J. SYST.BACTERIOL. ATCC 15754=; Mycobacterium gilvum NCTC 10742=; My- with petroleum ether-diethyl ether (6:4, vol/vol). The spots cobacterium gordonae ATCC 14470T and CIPT 0210008; were visualized by charring after the plates were sprayed Mycobacterium kansasii ATCC 12478T;Mycobacterium ko- with a 10% solution of molybdophosphoric acid in ethanol. mossense ATCC 33013=; Mycobacterium marinum ATCC Oxidative cleavage, isolation of oxidation products, and 927=; Mycobacterium moriokaense ATCC 43059=; Myco- structural analysis were performed as previously described bacterium neoaumm ATCC 25795=; Mycobacterium (13). The patterns of nonhydroxylated fatty acids were obuense ATCC 27023T; Mycobacterium paraforhcitum determined by capillary gas chromatography as previously ATCC 19686=; Mycobacterium phlei ATCC 117ST; Myco- described (17). bacterium porcinum ATCC 33776=; Mycobacterium Instrumentation. Gas chromatography was conducted poriferae ATCC 35087=; Mycobacterium pulveris ATCC with a Hewlett-Packard model 5890A apparatus equipped 35154=; Mycobacterium rhodesiae ATCC 27024T; Mycobac- with a fused silica capillary column with SPBl as the terium senegalense NCTC 10956=; Mycobacterium smeg- stationary phase. The temperature of the injector was raised matis ATCC 19420T; Mycobacterium sphagni ATCC from 260 to 350°C for pyrolytical conditions. Infrared spectra 33027=; Mycobacterium terrae ATCC 15755=; Mycobacte- were recorded with a Perkin-Elmer model FTIR 1600 appa- rium thermoresistibile ATCC 19527T; Mycobacterium to- ratus. ‘H nuclear magnetic resonance spectra were obtained kaiense ATCC 27282T; Mycobacterium triviale ATCC with a 200-MHz Brucker instrument by using CDC1, as the 23292T; Mycobacterium tuberculosis ATCC 27294= and solvent. Polarimetry was conducted with a Perkin-Elmer ATCC 25177; and Mycobacterium vaccae ATCC 15483=. In model 141 polarimeter. Mass spectra were determined by addition, the frequency distribution of the test results and using an electron impact ion source and a Varian model 311A the results of a lipid analysis for mycobacterial isolates spectrometer . obtained from human host and environmental sources were DNA-DNA hybridization. For DNA extraction and subse- included for comparative purposes. These isolates included 13 M. chelonae subsp. chelonae strains, 6 M. chelonae quent DNA-DNA hybridization, selected strains (see Table subsp. abscessus strains, 8 M. fallax strains, 7 M. jlavescens 4) were cultivated in 1 to 3 liters of nutrient broth (Difco) strains, 12 M. fortuitum strains, 9 M. gastri strains, 28 M. supplemented with a powder base containing 7H9 Middle- gordonae strains, 21 M. kansasii strains, 4 M. marinum brook broth medium (Difco), 1% glycerol, and 0.05% Tween strains, 7 M. smegmatis strains, 13 M. terrae strains, 11 M. 80. Flasks were incubated at 30 or 37°C with gentle agitation triviale strains, and 47 M. tuberculosis strains. We also for 10 to 21 days. DNA was extracted as previously de- included in this study six strains of a recently described new scribed (14, 15). Briefly, the bacteria were converted to species, Mycobacterium alvei (1). wall-deficient forms and then lysed by adding sodium dode- Characterization of strains. Colony morphology, the abil- cyl sulfate, as previously described, and proteinase K (Boehr- ity to grow at various temperatures (25,30,37,45, and 52”C), inger, Mannheim, Germany) instead of pronase. The DNA pigment production, and photoreactivity were determined as was then purified by using the usual methods. DNA from the previously described (9, 10, 28-30). The niacin test was type strain of the proposed new mycobacterial taxon, strain performed with test strips (Difco Laboratories, Detroit,