Phycicoccus Endophyticus Sp. Nov., an Endophytic Actinobacterium Isolated from Bruguiera Gymnorhiza

Phycicoccus Endophyticus Sp. Nov., an Endophytic Actinobacterium Isolated from Bruguiera Gymnorhiza

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (2016), 66, 1105–1111 DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.000842 Phycicoccus endophyticus sp. nov., an endophytic actinobacterium isolated from Bruguiera gymnorhiza Shao-Wei Liu,1 Min Xu,2 Li Tuo,1 Xiao-Jun Li,1,3 Lin Hu,4 Li Chen,4 Rong-Feng Li5 and Cheng-Hang Sun1 Correspondence 1Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Cheng-Hang Sun Medical College, Beijing 100050, PR China chenghangsun@hotmail.com or 2Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Guilin Medical University, Guilin 541004, PR China sunchenghang@imb.pumc.edu.cn 3College of Laboratory Medical Science, Hebei North University, Zhangjiakou 075000, PR China 4Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, PR China 5Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA A novel endophytic actinobacterium, designated strain IP6SC6T, was isolated from surface- sterilized bark of Bruguiera gymnorhiza collected from Zhanjiang Mangrove Forest National Nature Reserve in Guangdong, China. Cells of strain IP6SC6T were Gram-stain-positive, aerobic, non-spore-forming, non-motile rods. Strain IP6SC6T grew at 20–42 8C (optimum, 37 8C), at pH 6.0–9.0 (optimum, pH 7.0) and in the presence of 0–8 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum, 0–2 %). Chemotaxonomic analyses showed that the isolate possessed meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diamino acid of the peptidoglycan, galactose and glucose as whole-cell sugars, and MK-8(H4) as the predominant menaquinone. The major polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylinositol and an unknown lipid. The major fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0, anteiso- C15 : 0, anteiso-C17 : 0 and iso-C16 : 0. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 72.5 mol%. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain IP6SC6T belonged to the genus Phycicoccus and shared the highest sequence similarity with Phycicoccus jejuensis NRRL B-24460T (96.97 %). On the basis of phylogenetic analysis and phenotypic and chemotaxonomic characteristics, strain IP6SC6T represents a novel species of the genus Phycicoccus, for which the name Phycicoccus endophyticus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is IP6SC6T (5DSM 100020T5CGMCC 4.7300T). The genus Phycicoccus, a member of the family Intrasporan- seaweed, air, soil and scoria. The characteristics of the genus giaceae, suborder Micrococcineae (Stackebrandt et al., 1997), Phycicoccus include meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnos- was created by Lee (2006) and the description was sub- tic diamino acid in the cell-wall peptidoglycan, MK-8(H4)as sequently emended by Zhang et al. (2011). At the time of writ- the major menaquinone, and iso-C15 : 0 and iso-C16 : 0 as the ing, the genus comprises eight species with validly published predominant fatty acids. The G+C content of the genus names: Phycicoccus jejuensis (Lee, 2006) as the type species, Phycicoccus is in the range 69.7–74.0 mol% (Lee, 2013). P. dokdonensis (Yoon et al., 2008), P. aerophilus (Weon During an investigation of the culturable actinobacterial et al., 2008), P. bigeumensis (Dastager et al., 2008), diversity associated with endophytic actinomycetes from P. cremeus (Zhang et al., 2011), P. ginsenosidimutans (Wang mangrove plants, strain IP6SC6T, the first endophytic et al., 2011), P. badiiscoriae (Lee, 2013) and P. soli (Singh actinobacterium affiliated with the genus Phycicoccus,was et al., 2015). Members of the genus Phycicoccus are isolated from surface-sterilized bark of Bruguiera gymnor- Gram-stain-positive, aerobic coccoid- or rod-shaped hiza collected from Zhanjiang Mangrove Forest National bacteria isolated from diverse environments, such as dried Nature Reserve (218 349 140 N 1098 459 210 E) in Guang- dong, China. Based on polyphasic taxonomic studies, The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA strain IP6SC6T was distinguished from previously described T gene sequence of strain IP6SC6 is KT327645. species of the genus Phycicoccus and is considered to rep- Two supplementary tables and four supplementary figures are available resent a novel species. In this paper, the taxonomic position with the online Supplementary Material. of this strain is reported. Downloaded from www.microbiologyresearch.org by 000842 G 2015 IUMS Printed in Great Britain 1105 IP: 144.92.44.106 On: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 11:24:58 S.-W. Liu and others Treatment of the plant sample was processed as described P. jejuensis NRRL B-24460T, the closest phylogenetic neigh- by Qin et al. (2009). After sterilization, the sample was bour of strain IP6SC6T in the genus Phycicoccus, was ground to a powder by using a micromill and distributed obtained from Agricultural Research Service Culture on International Streptomyces Project (ISP) 2 agar (Shir- Collection (Peoria, USA) and used as a reference strain. ling & Gottlieb, 1966) supplemented with 1 % (v/v) plant Cultural characteristics were determined by observing tissue extract. After 4 weeks of incubation at 28 8C, a growth of the strain at 28 8C for 1–2 weeks on ISP 2, 3, pure culture was isolated and then subcultured on trypti- 4, 5 and 7 agars (Shirling & Gottlieb, 1966), nutrient agar case soy agar (TSA; BD). The purified isolate was main- (Waksman, 1961), R2A agar (BD), TSA, yeast-starch agar tained at 4 8C on TSA slants and preserved in aqueous (Ara & Kudo, 2007) and Bennett’s agar (Gordon & glycerol suspensions (20 %, v/v) at 280 8C. Smith, 1955). The ISCC-NBS colour charts (Kelly, 1964) were used to assess colony colour and diffusible pigment. The extraction of genomic DNA from strain IP6SC6T and Cell morphology and motility were observed by trans- PCR amplification of the 16S rRNA gene were performed mission electron microscopy (JEM-1400; JEOL) after incu- as described by Li et al. (2007). The purified PCR products bation on TSA at 28 8C for 3 days. The Gram-stain test was were cloned using the pEASY-T1 Cloning kit (TransGen performed as described by Magee et al. (1975). Growth Biotech) according to the manufacturer’s instructions, under anaerobic conditions was determined after incu- and sequenced using an ABI PRISM 3730XL DNA Analy- bation in the BBL GasPak Anaerobic System (BD) at ser. Levels of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity between 28 8C for 14 days. The temperature range for growth was strain IP6SC6T and related species were determined via determined by incubation of the strain on TSA at 4, 15, the EzTaxon e-server (http://eztaxon-e.ezbiocloud.net/; 20, 25, 28, 30, 37, 42, 45 and 50 8C for 14 days. The pH Kim et al., 2012). Multiple alignments were generated range for growth was measured in trypticase soy broth using the CLUSTAL X program (Thompson et al., 1997). (TSB; BD) with various pH values (pH 4.0–12.0, at inter- Evolutionary distances were calculated using the Kimura vals of 1.0 pH unit) for 14 days. For the pH experiments, two-parameter model (Kimura, 1983). Phylogenetic the different buffers described by Xu et al. (2005) were trees were reconstructed using the neighbour-joining used. Salt tolerance was tested in TSA supplemented with (Saitou & Nei, 1987), maximum-parsimony (Fitch, 1971) 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 or 10 % (w/v) NaCl for 14 days. Catalase and maximum-likelihood (Felsenstein, 1981) methods activity was determined by bubble production in 3 % (v/v) with MEGA version 6.0 (Tamura et al., 2013). The topolo- H O . Oxidase activity was assessed by using 1 % (w/v) tet- gies of the phylogenetic trees were evaluated by using the 2 2 ramethyl-p-phenylenediamine (Cappuccino & Sherman, bootstrap method of Felsenstein (1985) with 1000 repeats. 2002). Hydrolysis of starch, cellulose, gelatin and Tweens The nearly full-length 16S rRNA gene sequence (1487 bp) of 20, 40 and 80, production of H2S, and milk coagulation strain IP6SC6T was obtained to determine its phylogenetic and peptonization were examined as described by Gonzalez position. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analyses et al. (1978). Acid production from carbon sources was showed that strain IP6SC6T was phylogenetically most clo- tested using the API 50CH (bioMe´rieux) system according sely related to members of the family Intrasporangiaceae. to the manufacturer’s instructions. Other biochemical Strain IP6SC6T shared highest 16S rRNA gene sequence characteristics and enzyme activities were tested by using similarity with Phycicoccus jejuensis NRRL B-24460T the API 20NE and API ZYM kits (bioMe´rieux) according (96.97 %), followed by Tetrasphaera duodecadis ATCC to the manufacturer’s instructions. 13347T (96.90 %), Phycicoccus badiiscoriae Sco-B23T Cells of strain IP6SC6T were aerobic, Gram-stain-positive, (96.65 %), Tetrasphaera veronensis Ver1T (96.62 %), Phyci- non-spore-forming and non-motile. Colonies grown on coccus bigeumensis MSL03T (96.46 %), Phycicoccus dokdo- TSA plates were circular, smooth, opaque and greyish nensis DS-8T (96.45 %), Tetrasphaera japonica ACM 5116T yellow. Cells of strain IP6SC6T were rod-shaped (0.5– (96.32 %) and Tetrasphaera elongata Lp2T (96.28 %). 0.8 mm in diameter and 1.2–2.0 mm in length) on TSA Lower sequence similarities (,96.0 %) were found with after incubation at 28 8C for 3 days (Fig. S3). Strain all other recognized species of the family Intrasporangiaceae. IP6SC6T displayed good growth on TSA, R2A agar, ISP 2 The phylogenetic tree reconstructed using the neighbour- and ISP 3 agars, Bennett’s agar and yeast-starch agar, poor joining algorithm (Fig. 1) showed that strain IP6SC6T was growth on ISP 5 and ISP 7 agars, and no growth on ISP 4 separate from members of the genus Tetrasphaera and fell agar or nutrient agar. Substrate and aerial mycelia were not into the cluster of the genus Phycicoccus with a relatively observed and no diffusible pigment was produced on any high bootstrap value (71 %), forming a separate clade of the media tested. The strain was capable of growth on within the family Intrasporangiaceae.

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