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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 63, Issue -, Pages 1967-1971Publisher
MICROBIOLOGY SOC
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.046938-0
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- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [12-04-00789-a]
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- United States National Science Foundation [OCE-0728391, OCE-0752469, OCE-0937404]
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A thermophilic, anaerobic, chemolithoautotrophic bacterium (strain S69(T)) was isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney located on the Eastern Lau Spreading Center and Valu Fa Ridge, Pacific Ocean, at a depth of 1910 m using anoxic medium with elemental sulfur as the only energy source. Cells of strain S69(T) were Gram-negative short rods, 0.4-0.6 mu m in diameter and 1.0-2.5 mu m in length, motile with a single polar flagellum. The temperature range for growth was 28-70 degrees C, with an optimum at 61 degrees C. The pH range for growth was 5.6-7.9, with optimum growth at pH 6.8. Growth of strain S69(T) was observed at NaCl concentrations ranging from 0.9 to 5.0 %, with an optimum at 1.8-2.7 (w/v). Strain S69(T) grew anaerobically with elemental sulfur as an energy source and bicarbonate/CO2 as a carbon source. Elemental sulfur was disproportionated to sulfide and sulfate. Growth was enhanced in the presence of poorly crystalline Fe(III) oxide (ferrihydrite) as a sulfide-scavenging agent. Strain S69(T) was also able to grow by disproportionation of thiosulfate and sulfite. Sulfate was not used as an electron acceptor either with H-2 or with organic electron donors. Analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that the isolate formed a distinct phylogenetic branch within the Deltaproteobacteria. On the basis of its physiological properties and results of phylogenetic analyses, strain S69(T) is considered to represent a novel species of a new genus, for which the name Dissulfuribacter thermophilus gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Dissulfuribacter thermophilus is S69(T) (=DSM 25762(T)=VKM B-2760(T)).
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