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Nocardiopsis Algeriensis Sp. Nov., an Alkalitolerant Actinomycete Isolated from Saharan Soil Nocardiopsis algeriensis sp. nov., an alkalitolerant actinomycete isolated from Saharan soil Noureddine Bouras, Atika Meklat, Abdelghani Zitouni, Florence Mathieu, Peter Schumann, Cathrin Spröer, Nasserdine Sabaou, Hans-Peter Klenk To cite this version: Noureddine Bouras, Atika Meklat, Abdelghani Zitouni, Florence Mathieu, Peter Schumann, et al.. Nocardiopsis algeriensis sp. nov., an alkalitolerant actinomycete isolated from Saharan soil. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Springer Verlag, 2015, 107 (2), pp.313-320. 10.1007/s10482-014-0329-7. hal- 01894564 HAL Id: hal-01894564 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01894564 Submitted on 12 Oct 2018 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. 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ISSN 0003-6072 $Q\FRUUHVSRQGHQFHFRQFHUQLQJWKLVVHUYLFHVKRXOGEHVHQWWRWKHUHSRVLWRU\DGPLQLVWUDWRU WHFKRDWDR#OLVWHVGLIILQSWRXORXVHIU Nocardiopsis algeriensis sp. nov., an alkalitolerant actinomycete isolated from Saharan soil • • • Noureddine Bouras Atika Meklat Abdelghani Zitouni • • • Florence Mathieu Peter Schumann Cathrin Spro¨er • Nasserdine Sabaou Hans-Peter Klenk Abstract An alkalitolerant actinomycete strain, des- (H4) and MK-11 (H4). The major fatty acids were T ignated B32 , was isolated from a Saharan soil sample found to be iso-C16:0 and anteiso-C15:0. The diagnostic collected from Adrar province (South of Algeria), and phospholipids detected were phosphatidylcholine, then investigated using a polyphasic taxonomic phosphatidylmethylethanolamine, diphosphatidyl- approach. The strain was observed to produce short glycerol, phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidyletha- chains of spores on the dichotomous branched aerial nolamine. The chemotaxonomic properties of strain mycelium and formed a fragmented substrate myce- B32T are consistent with those shared by members of lium. The optimum NaCl concentration for growth the genus Nocardiopsis. 16S rRNA gene sequence was found to be 0–5 % (w/v) and the optimum growth analysis indicated that strain B32T is most closely temperature and pH were found to be 25–35 °C and related to Nocardiopsis alba DSM 43377T (98.7 %), 7.0–10.0 °C, respectively. The diagnostic diamino Nocardiopsis lucentensis DSM 44048T (98.6 %), acid in the cell-wall peptidoglycan was identified as Nocardiopsis aegyptia DSM 44442T (98.6 %), No- meso-diaminopimelic acid. The predominant men- cardiopsis sinuspersici HM6T (98.6 %) and Nocardi- aquinones of strain B32T were identified as MK-10 opsis arvandica HM7T (98.5 %). However, the DNA– DNA relatedness values between strain B32T and the closely related type strains were 17.9, 14.6, 31.1, 27.1 N. Bouras Á A. Meklat Á A. Zitouni Á N. Sabaou (&) F. Mathieu Laboratoire de Biologie des Syste`mes Microbiens Universite´ de Toulouse, INPT-ENSAT, Laboratoire de (LBSM), Ecole Normale Supe´rieure de Kouba, Alger, Ge´nie Chimique, UMR 5503 (CNRS/INPT/UPS), 1 Algeria Avenue de l’Agrobiopoˆle BP 32607 Auzeville Tolosane, e-mail: [email protected] 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France N. Bouras P. Schumann Á C. Spro¨er Á H.-P. Klenk (&) De´partement de Biologie, Faculte´ des Sciences de la Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Nature et de la Vie et Sciences de la Terre, Universite´ de Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Inhoffenstraße 7B, Ghardaı¨a, BP 455, 47000 Ghardaı¨a, Algeria 38124 Braunschweig, Germany e-mail: [email protected] A. Meklat De´partement de Biologie et physiologie cellulaire, Faculte´ des Sciences de la Nature et de la Vie, Universite´ Saaˆd Dahleb, Blida, Algeria and 14.1 %, respectively. Based on the combined Materials and methods genotypic and phenotypic evidence, it is proposed that T strain B32 should be classified as representative of a Isolation and maintenance of strain novel species, for which the name Nocardiopsis T algeriensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is Strain B32 was isolated from a non-rhizospheric soil 0 00 B32T (=DSM 45462T = CECT 8712T). sample collected from Aougrout (28°69 16 N, 0°3106200E), Adrar province, Touat region (Algeria). Keywords Nocardiopsis Á Nocardiopsis algeriensis Isolation was carried out by a dilution-agar plating sp. nov. Á Alkalitolerant actinomycete Á Saharan soil Á method on complex medium (CM) agar (Chun et al. Polyphasic taxonomy 2000) containing 0.5 % (w/v) NaCl supplemented with cycloheximide (50 lgml-1) to reduce fungal growth. The pH was adjusted to pH 10.0 by using autoclaved NaOH. After incubation at 30 °C for 1 week, the Nocardiopsis-like strain was picked up Introduction and purified on CM agar (pH 10.0) containing 0.5 % (w/v) NaCl and incubated at 30 °C. The strain was The genus Nocardiopsis was first described by Meyer stored at 4 °C on the same medium, and also at (1976) and was affiliated with the family Nocardiops- -20 °C as 20 % (v/v) glycerol suspensions. aceae (Rainey et al. 1996). Numerous studies have Strain B32T was deposited in the German Collec- shown that Nocardiopsis strains are ubiquitously tion of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (DSMZ), distributed in the environment (Kroppenstedt and Germany, as strain DSM 45462T and in Spanish Type Evtushenko, 2006). Many of these species prefer Culture Collection (CECT), Spain, as strain CECT moderately alkaline conditions (pH 8.5) (Kroppen- 8712T. stedt 1992) and some grow better on media supple- mented with sodium chloride. At the time of writing, Phenotypic characterization there were 45 species of the genus Nocardiopsis with validly published names. The genus Nocardiopsis was Cultural characteristics were investigated after 7, 14 shown to exhibit distinct chemotaxonomic character- and 21 days of incubation at 30 °C on media of the istics: cell-wall chemotype III/C (meso-diaminopim- International Streptomyces Project, ISP 2 and ISP 4 elic acid without diagnostic sugar in whole-cell (Shirling and Gottlieb 1966), and also on CM agar hydrolysates; Lechevalier and Lechevalier 1970), (Chun et al. 2000) containing 0.5 % (w/v) NaCl. The phospholipid type PIII (phosphatidylcholine as char- degree of growth was determined and the colours of acteristic phospholipid; Lechevalier et al. 1977), the substrate and aerial mycelia and any soluble menaquinone MK-10 with variable degrees of satura- pigments produced were determined by comparison tion in the side chain as the predominant isoprenoid with ISCC-NBS colour charts (Kelly and Judd 1976). quinone (Kroppenstedt 1992), fatty acid type 3d The morphological characteristics of strain B32T, containing iso-branched, anteiso-branched and including spore-chain morphology, spore size and 10-methyl-branched chain fatty acids (Kroppenstedt surface ornamentation, were observed by using a ? 1985) and the G C content of the genomic DNA model B1 Motic light microscope and a model Hitachi between 64 and 71 mol% (Grund and Kroppenstedt S-450 scanning electron microscope. 1990). Strain B32T was characterized by using sixty-three During our study on the diversity and taxonomy of physiological tests. All tests were made at pH 7.5 bacterial communities in Saharan environment, a (except those of pH test). Production of acid from T Nocardiopsis-like strain designated B32 was isolated twenty-two carbohydrates and decarboxylation of nine from a sample collected from Adrar (Algerian Sahara). organic acids was determined according to the meth- Based on the results of the present polyphasic ods of Gordon et al. (1974). Degradation of adenine, T taxonomic study, it is proposed that strain B32 gelatin, guanine, hypoxanthine, milk casein, starch, represents a novel species of the genus Nocardiopsis, testosterone, Tween 80, tyrosine and xanthine was named Nocardiopsis algeriensis sp. nov. studied as described by Goodfellow (1971) and Marchal et al. (1987). Lysozyme sensitivity and products were purified with a PCR product purification production of nitrate reductase were determined kit (Qiagen). The primers used for sequencing were as according to the methods of Gordon and Barnett listed in Coenye et al. (1999). The sequence obtained (1977) and Marchal et al. (1987), respectively. was compared with sequences present in the public Production of melanoid pigments was tested on ISP sequence databases as well as with the EzTaxon-e 6 and ISP 7 media (Shirling and Gottlieb 1966). server (Kim et al. 2012). Phylogenetic analyses were Growth in the presence of chloramphenicol conducted using MEGA version 5 (Tamura et al. (25 lgml-1), erythromycin (10 lgml-1), kanamy- 2011). The 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain B32T cin (5 lgml-1), penicillin (25 lgml-1) and
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