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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 63, Issue -, Pages 4724-4729Publisher
MICROBIOLOGY SOC
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.050518-0
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- US National Science Foundation [OCE-0752469, OCE-0937404]
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A novel moderately thermophilic, heterotrophic bacterium was isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent deposit from the Mariner field along the Eastern Lau Spreading Center of the south-western Pacific Ocean. Cells were short motile rods (about 0.4x0.8 mu m) that occurred singly or in pairs and were surrounded by a sheath-like membrane or 'toga'. The cells grew between 45 and 65 degrees C (optimum 57-60 degrees C) and at pH 4.1-6.0 (optimum pH 5.5-5.7) and grew optimally at 3% (w/v) NaCl. The isolate grew on a range of carbon and proteinaceous substrates and reduced sulfur. The G+C content of the DNA was about 45 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence placed the new isolate as a deeply diverging lineage within the order Thermotogales. Based on the physiological, morphological and phylogenetic data, the isolate represents a novel species of a new genus with the proposed name Mesoaciditoga lauensis gen. nov., sp. nov. The type strain of Mesoaciditoga lauensis is cd-1655R(T) (=DSM 25116(T)=OCM 1212(T)).
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