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Kaistella Soli Sp. Nov., Isolated from Oil-Contaminated Soil
A001 Kaistella soli sp. nov., Isolated from Oil-contaminated Soil Dhiraj Kumar Chaudhary1, Ram Hari Dahal2, Dong-Uk Kim3, and Yongseok Hong1* 1Department of Environmental Engineering, Korea University Sejong Campus, 2Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, 3Department of Biological Science, College of Science and Engineering, Sangji University A light yellow-colored, rod-shaped bacterial strain DKR-2T was isolated from oil-contaminated experimental soil. The strain was Gram-stain-negative, catalase and oxidase positive, and grew at temperature 10–35°C, at pH 6.0– 9.0, and at 0–1.5% (w/v) NaCl concentration. The phylogenetic analysis and 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis suggested that the strain DKR-2T was affiliated to the genus Kaistella, with the closest species being Kaistella haifensis H38T (97.6% sequence similarity). The chemotaxonomic profiles revealed the presence of phosphatidylethanolamine as the principal polar lipids;iso-C15:0, antiso-C15:0, and summed feature 9 (iso-C17:1 9c and/or C16:0 10-methyl) as the main fatty acids; and menaquinone-6 as a major menaquinone. The DNA G + C content was 39.5%. In addition, the average nucleotide identity (ANIu) and in silico DNA–DNA hybridization (dDDH) relatedness values between strain DKR-2T and phylogenically closest members were below the threshold values for species delineation. The polyphasic taxonomic features illustrated in this study clearly implied that strain DKR-2T represents a novel species in the genus Kaistella, for which the name Kaistella soli sp. nov. is proposed with the type strain DKR-2T (= KACC 22070T = NBRC 114725T). [This study was supported by Creative Challenge Research Foundation Support Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF- 2020R1I1A1A01071920).] A002 Chitinibacter bivalviorum sp. -
A Numerical Taxonomy of 604 Strains of the Genera Arthrobacter, Aureo
J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol., 39, 135-214 (1993) NUMERICAL CLASSIFICATION OF CORYNEFORM BACTERIA AND RELATED TAXA PETER KAMPFER,* HERI3ERT SEILER,' AND WOLFGANG DOTT Fachgebiet Hygiene, Technische Universitat Berlin, Amrumerstr. 32, D-13353 Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany 'Suddeutsche Versuchs - and Forschungsanstalt fur Milchwirtschaft, Vottingerstr. 45, D-85354 Freising, Federal Republic of Germany (Received August 14, 1992) A numerical taxonomy of 604 strains of the genera Arthrobacter, Aureo- bacterium, Brevibacterium, Cellulomonas, Clavibacter, Corynebacterium, Curtobacterium, Microbacterium, Nocardia, Nocardioides, Rhodococcus, Terrabacter and Tsukamurella was undertaken based on 280 physiological characters with the aid of miniaturized tests. Clustering was by the unweighted pair group method (UPGMA) with 12 different measures of similarity. Test error, overlap between the phena and cophenetic correla- tion coefficients for the classifications obtained with the Jaccard coefficient (SJ), the Pearson coefficient (SP), the simple-matching coefficient (SsM), and the Dice coefficient (SE,) as measures of similarity were within acceptable limits. Clusters were defined at the 55.0 to 70.5% levels (SJ). The compositions of clusters corresponded largely the delineations of 81.1 to 93.5% (SSM),29.1 to 55.0% (Se), and 55.3 to 81.1% (SD). A total of 31 major clusters (containing five or more strains), 41 minor clusters and subclusters (containing less than five strains), and 54 single-member clusters were obtained in the UPGMA/SJ study. The following conclu- sions were reached: (i) A high degree of similarity between the genera Aureobacterium, Cellulomonas, Clavibacter, Curtobacterium and Microbac- terium found in phylogenetic-based studies could be shown also pheneti- cally. Strains belonging to these genera were found in SJ clusters 1 to 45, often representing closely related, or single species. -
Within-Arctic Horizontal Gene Transfer As a Driver of Convergent Evolution in Distantly Related 1 Microalgae 2 Richard G. Do
bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.31.454568; this version posted August 2, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 Within-Arctic horizontal gene transfer as a driver of convergent evolution in distantly related 2 microalgae 3 Richard G. Dorrell*+1,2, Alan Kuo3*, Zoltan Füssy4, Elisabeth Richardson5,6, Asaf Salamov3, Nikola 4 Zarevski,1,2,7 Nastasia J. Freyria8, Federico M. Ibarbalz1,2,9, Jerry Jenkins3,10, Juan Jose Pierella 5 Karlusich1,2, Andrei Stecca Steindorff3, Robyn E. Edgar8, Lori Handley10, Kathleen Lail3, Anna Lipzen3, 6 Vincent Lombard11, John McFarlane5, Charlotte Nef1,2, Anna M.G. Novák Vanclová1,2, Yi Peng3, Chris 7 Plott10, Marianne Potvin8, Fabio Rocha Jimenez Vieira1,2, Kerrie Barry3, Joel B. Dacks5, Colomban de 8 Vargas2,12, Bernard Henrissat11,13, Eric Pelletier2,14, Jeremy Schmutz3,10, Patrick Wincker2,14, Chris 9 Bowler1,2, Igor V. Grigoriev3,15, and Connie Lovejoy+8 10 11 1 Institut de Biologie de l'ENS (IBENS), Département de Biologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, 12 INSERM, Université PSL, 75005 Paris, France 13 2CNRS Research Federation for the study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, 14 FR2022/Tara Oceans GOSEE, 3 rue Michel-Ange, 75016 Paris, France 15 3 US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 16 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, -
Isolation, Identification and Screening of Actinobacteria in Volcanic Soil of Deception Island (The Antarctic) for Antimicrobial Metabolites
vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 67–78, 2015 doi: 10.1515/popore−2015−0001 Isolation, identification and screening of Actinobacteria in volcanic soil of Deception Island (the Antarctic) for antimicrobial metabolites Yoke−Kqueen CHEAH 1*, Learn−Han LEE 1, Cheng−Yun Catherine CHIENG 1 and Vui−Ling Clemente Michael WONG 2 1 Department of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia 2 Biotechnology Research Institute, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Locked Bag 2073, 88999 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia <[email protected]> * corresponding author Abstract: This project aimed to isolate and characterize volcanic soil Actinobacteria from Deception Island, Antarctic. A total of twenty−four Actinobacteria strains were isolated using four different isolation media (Starch casein agar, R2 agar, Actinomycete isolation agar, Streptomyces agar) and characterized basing on 16S rRNA gene sequences. Tests for second− ary metabolites were performed using well diffusion method to detect antimicrobial activities against eight different pathogens, namely Staphyloccocus aureus ATCC 33591, Bacillus megaterium, Enterobacter cloacae, Klebsiella oxytoca, S. enterica serotype Enteritidis, S. enterica serotype Paratyphi ATCC 9150, S. enterica serotype Typhimurium ATCC 14028 and Vibrio cholerae. Antimicrobial properties were detected against Salmonella paratyphi A and Salmonella typhimurium at the concentration of 0.3092±0.08 g/ml. The bioactive strains were identified as Gordonia terrae, Leifsonia soli and Terrabacter lapilli. Results from this study showed that the soil of Deception Island is likely a good source of isolation for Actinobacteria. The volcanic soil Actinobacteria are potentially rich source for discovery of antimicrobial compounds. Key words: Antarctic, Actinobacteria, secondary metabolites, 16S, diffusion assay, se− lective isolation media. -
Nocardioides Zeicaulis Sp. Nov., an Endophyte Actinobacterium of Maize Peter Ka¨Mpfer,1 Stefanie P
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (2016), 66, 1869–1874 DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.000959 Nocardioides zeicaulis sp. nov., an endophyte actinobacterium of maize Peter Ka¨mpfer,1 Stefanie P. Glaeser,1 John A. McInroy2 and Hans-Ju¨rgen Busse3 Correspondence 1Institut fu¨r Angewandte Mikrobiologie, Justus-Liebig-Universita¨t Giessen, D-35392 Giessen, Peter Ka¨mpfer Germany peter.kaempfer@ 2Entomology and Plant Pathology Dept., Auburn University, Alabama, AL 36849, USA umwelt.uni-giessen.de 3Abteilung fu¨r Klinische Mikrobiologie und Infektionsbiologie, Institut fu¨r Mikrobiologie, Veterina¨rmedizinische Universita¨t Wien, A-1210 Wien, Austria A Gram-stain-positive, aerobic organism was isolated as an endophyte from the stem tissue of healthy maize (Zea mays) and investigated in detail for its taxonomic position. On the basis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, strain JM-601T was shown to be most closely related to Nocardioides alpinus (98.3 %), and Nocardioides ganghwensis (98.0 %). The 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to all other species of the genus Nocardioides was j98.0 %. The diagnostic diamino acid of the peptidoglycan was LL-diaminopimelic acid. The major T quinone of strain JM-601 was menaquinone MK-8(H4). The polar lipid profile revealed the major components diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylcholine and an unidentified phospholipid. The polyamine pattern contained predominantly spermine and moderate amounts of spermidine. In the fatty acid profile, iso-C16 : 0,C17 : 1v8c and 10-methyl C17 : 0 were present in major amounts. All these data support the allocation of the strain to the genus Nocardioides. The results of physiological and biochemical characterization allow in addition a phenotypic differentiation of strain JM-601T from N. -
Complete Genome of Isoprene Degrading Nocardioides Sp. WS12
microorganisms Brief Report Complete Genome of Isoprene Degrading Nocardioides sp. WS12 Lisa Gibson, Nasmille L. Larke-Mejía and J. Colin Murrell * School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK; [email protected] (L.G.); [email protected] (N.L.L.-M.) * Correspondence: [email protected] Received: 5 May 2020; Accepted: 5 June 2020; Published: 12 June 2020 Abstract: Isoprene is a climate-active gas whose wide-spread global production stems mostly from terrestrial plant emissions. The biodegradation of isoprene is carried out by a number of different bacteria from a wide range of environments. This study investigates the genome of a novel isoprene degrading bacterium Nocardioides sp. WS12, isolated from soil associated with Salix alba (Willow), a tree known to produce high amounts of isoprene. The Nocardioides sp. WS12 genome was fully sequenced, revealing the presence of a complete isoprene monooxygenase gene cluster, along with associated isoprene degradation pathway genes. Genes associated with rubber degradation were also present, suggesting that Nocardioides sp. WS12 may also have the capacity to degrade poly-cis-1,4-isoprene. Keywords: isoprene; isolate; genome; degradation; Nocardioides; rubber 1. Introduction Isoprene (2-methyl-1,3-butadiene) is a major biogenic volatile compound (BVOC) with atmospheric 1 emissions of 400–600 Tg y− , making it similar in scale to methane [1,2]. As a climate-active gas, it plays a wide and varied role in the Earth’s atmospheric chemistry. With an atmospheric lifetime ranging from 0.8 h to 1.3 days, it is highly reactive and susceptible to attack by hydroxyl, nitrate and ozone radicals [3]. -
Transfer of Pimelobacter Tumescens to Terrabacter Gen. Nov. As Terrabacter Tumescens Comb. Nov. and of Pimelobacter Jensenii To
INTERNATIONALJOURNAL OF SYSTEMATICBACTERIOLOGY, Jan. 1989, p. 1-6 Vol. 39, No. 1 0020-7713/89/010001-06$02.OO/O Copyright 0 1989, International Union of Microbiological Societies Transfer of Pimelobacter tumescens to Terrabacter gen. nov. as Terrabacter tumescens comb. nov. and of Pimelobacter jensenii to Nocardioides as Nocardioides jensenii comb. nov. M. D. COLLINS,l M. DORSCH,’ AND E. STACKEBRANDT’” Department of Microbiology, Agricultural Food Research Council, Institute of Food Research, Reading Laboratory, Shinjield, Reading RG2 9AT, United Kingdom,’ and Institut fur Allgemeine Mikrobiologie, Christian-Albrechts- Universitat, 2300 Kiel, Federal Republic of Germany’ The phylogenetic interrelationship of members of the genera Nocardioides and Pimelobacter were examined by using reverse transcriptase sequencing of 16s ribosomal ribonucleic acid. The sequence studies demon- strated that Nocardioides albus, Nocardioides luteus, Pimelobacter jensenii, and Pimelobacter simplex represent a coherent phylogenetic group at the genus level, whereas Pimelobacter tumescens occupies a separate line of descent. On the basis of sequence data and the chemotaxonomic distinctiveness of the latter organism, we propose that Pimelobacter tumescens be reclassified in a new genus, Terrabacter, as Terrabacter tumescens comb. nov. Arthrobacter simplex and Arthrobacter tumescens are mycelium), and its placement within the genus Nocardioides among the few named species of coryneform bacteria which has been questioned (14). contain cell wall peptidoglycans based on ~~-2,6-diaminopi- 16s ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) cataloging shows melic acid (5, 16). The two species thus differ in peptidogly- that P. simplex is well removed from the arthrobacters sensu can composition from Arthrobacter globiformis, the type strict0 and indicates that this species occupies a line of species of the genus, which contains lysine as the dibasic descent the branching point of which is as low as that of amino acid (16). -
Nocardioides Daeguensis Sp. Nov., a Nitrate- Reducing Bacterium Isolated from Activated Sludge of an Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (2013), 63, 3727–3732 DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.047043-0 Nocardioides daeguensis sp. nov., a nitrate- reducing bacterium isolated from activated sludge of an industrial wastewater treatment plant Yingshun Cui,13 Sung-Geun Woo,2,33 Jangho Lee,2 Sahastranshu Sinha,3,4 Myung-Suk Kang,5 Long Jin,6 Kwang Kyu Kim,7 Joonhong Park,2 Myungjin Lee8 and Sung-Taik Lee1 Correspondence 1Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Sung-Taik Lee 373-1 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea [email protected] 2School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Myungjin Lee Republic of Korea [email protected] 3Research and Development Division, H-Plus Eco Ltd, BVC #301, KRIBB, Eoeun-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-333, Republic of Korea 4Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, West Bengal, India 5National Institute of Biological Resources, Environmental Research Complex, Gyeongseo-dong, Seo-gu, Incheon 404-708, Republic of Korea 6Environmental Biotechnology Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology, 52 Eoeun-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-806, Republic of Korea 7Korean Collection for Type Cultures, Biological Resource Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, 52 Eoeun-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-806, Republic of Korea 8WIZCHEM Co., Ltd. Inno-Biz Park No. 403 HNU, 461-6 Jeonmin-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305- 811, Republic of Korea A Gram-reaction-positive, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming bacterium (strain 2C1-5T) was isolated from activated sludge of an industrial wastewater treatment plant in Daegu, South Korea. -
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Nocardioides Deserti Sp. Nov., an Actinobacterium Isolated from Desert Soil
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (2015), 65, 1604–1610 DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.000147 Nocardioides deserti sp. nov., an actinobacterium isolated from desert soil Li Tuo,1 Yan-Ping Dong,1,2 Xugela Habden,3 Jia-Meng Liu,1 Lin Guo,1 Xian-Fu Liu,4 Li Chen,4 Zhong-Ke Jiang,1 Shao-Wei Liu,1 Yu-Bin Zhang,2 Yu-Qin Zhang1 and Cheng-Hang Sun1 Correspondence 1Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Yu-Qin Zhang Medical College, Beijing 100050, PR China [email protected] 2College of Life Science and Technology, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, Cheng-Hang Sun PR China [email protected] 3College of Life Science and Chemistry, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumchi 830054, PR China 4Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, PR China A rod- or coccus-shaped, non-spore-forming actinobacterium, designated strain SC8A-24T, was isolated from a soil sample collected from the rhizosphere of Alhagi sparsifolia on the southern edge of the Taklimakan desert, Xinjiang, China, and examined by a polyphasic approach to clarify its taxonomic position. This actinobacterium was Gram-staining-positive and aerobic. Substrate and aerial mycelia were not observed, and no diffusible pigments were observed on the media tested. Strain SC8A-24T grew optimally without NaCl at 28–30 6C and pH 7.0–8.0. Phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence indicated that strain SC8A-24T belonged to the genus Nocardioides and shared the highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with Nocardioides salarius CL-Z59T (96.51 %), N. -
Nocardioides Sp. Strain WSN05-2, Isolated from a Wheat Field, Degrades Deoxynivalenol, Producing the Novel Intermediate 3-Epi-Deoxynivalenol
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol (2011) 89:419–427 DOI 10.1007/s00253-010-2857-z ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY Nocardioides sp. strain WSN05-2, isolated from a wheat field, degrades deoxynivalenol, producing the novel intermediate 3-epi-deoxynivalenol Yoko Ikunaga & Ikuo Sato & Stephanie Grond & Nobutaka Numaziri & Shigenobu Yoshida & Hiroko Yamaya & Syuntaro Hiradate & Morifumi Hasegawa & Hiroaki Toshima & Motoo Koitabashi & Michihiro Ito & Petr Karlovsky & Seiya Tsushima Received: 18 May 2010 /Revised: 1 August 2010 /Accepted: 31 August 2010 /Published online: 21 September 2010 # Springer-Verlag 2010 Abstract The mycotoxin deoxynivalenol (DON) causes supernatant. The metabolite was identified as 3-epi- serious problems worldwide in the production of crops such deoxynivalenol (3-epi-DON) by mass spectrometry and as wheat and barley because of its toxicity toward humans 1Hand13C nuclear magnetic resonance analysis. The and livestock. A bacterial culture capable of degrading amount of DON on wheat grain was reduced by about DON was obtained from soil samples collected in wheat 90% at 7 days after inoculation with WSN05-2. This is the fields using an enrichment culture procedure. The isolated first report of a Nocardioides sp.strainabletodegrade bacterium, designated strain WSN05-2, completely removed DON and of the yet unknown 3-epi-DON as an intermediate 1,000 μg/mL of DON from the culture medium after in the degradation of DON by a microorganism. incubation for 10 days. On the basis of phylogenetic studies, WSN05-2 was classified as a bacterium belonging to the Keywords Fusarium graminearum . Trichothecenes . genus Nocardioides. WSN05-2 showed significant growth in Deoxynivalenol . Mycotoxin degradation . Nocardioides culture medium with DON as the sole carbon source. -
Different Genome-Wide Transcriptome Responses of Nocardioides Simplex VKM Ac- 2033D to Phytosterol and Cortisone 21- Acetate Victoria Yu Shtratnikova1* , Mikhail I
Shtratnikova et al. BMC Biotechnology (2021) 21:7 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12896-021-00668-9 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Different genome-wide transcriptome responses of Nocardioides simplex VKM Ac- 2033D to phytosterol and cortisone 21- acetate Victoria Yu Shtratnikova1* , Mikhail I. Sсhelkunov2,3 , Victoria V. Fokina4,5 , Eugeny Y. Bragin4 , Andrey A. Shutov 4,5 and Marina V. Donova4,5 Abstract Background: Bacterial degradation/transformation of steroids is widely investigated to create biotechnologically relevant strains for industrial application. The strain of Nocardioides simplex VKM Ac-2033D is well known mainly for its superior 3-ketosteroid Δ1-dehydrogenase activity towards various 3-oxosteroids and other important reactions of sterol degradation. However, its biocatalytic capacities and the molecular fundamentals of its activity towards natural sterols and synthetic steroids were not fully understood. In this study, a comparative investigation of the genome-wide transcriptome profiling of the N. simplex VKM Ac-2033D grown on phytosterol, or in the presence of cortisone 21-acetate was performed with RNA-seq. Results: Although the gene patterns induced by phytosterol generally resemble the gene sets involved in phytosterol degradation pathways in mycolic acid rich actinobacteria such as Mycolicibacterium, Mycobacterium and Rhodococcus species, the differences in gene organization and previously unreported genes with high expression level were revealed. Transcription of the genes related to KstR- and KstR2-regulons was mainly enhanced in response to phytosterol, and the role in steroid catabolism is predicted for some dozens of the genes in N. simplex. New transcription factors binding motifs and new candidate transcription regulators of steroid catabolism were predicted in N.