Affiliation:
1. Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5120, USA
2. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5120, USA
Abstract
A yellow-pigmented, Gram-positive, aerobic, non-motile, non-spore-forming, irregular rod-shaped bacterium (strain TAN 31504T) was isolated from the bacteriophagous nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, DNA G+C content of 69.5 mol%, 2,4-diaminobutyric acid in the cell-wall peptidoglycan, major menaquinone MK-11, abundance of anteiso- and iso-fatty acids, polar lipids diphosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylglycerol and a number of shared biochemical characteristics, strain TAN 31504T was placed in the genus Leucobacter. DNA–DNA hybridization comparisons demonstrated a 91 % DNA–DNA relatedness between strain TAN 31504T and Leucobacter chromiireducens LMG 22506T indicating that these two strains belong to the same species, when the recommended threshold value of 70 % DNA–DNA relatedness for the definition of a bacterial species by the ad hoc committee on reconciliation of approaches to bacterial systematics is considered. Based on distinct differences in morphology, physiology, chemotaxonomic markers and various biochemical characteristics, it is proposed to split the species L. chromiireducens into two novel subspecies, Leucobacter chromiireducens subsp. chromiireducens subsp. nov. (type strain L-1T=CIP 108389T=LMG 22506T) and Leucobacter chromiireducens subsp. solipictus subsp. nov. (type strain TAN 31504T=DSM 18340T=ATCC BAA-1336T).
Subject
General Medicine,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics,Microbiology
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