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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 66, Issue -, Pages 837-844Publisher
MICROBIOLOGY SOC
DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.000799
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- 'Molecular and Cell Biology' programme of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Russian Fund of Basic Research [N 15-04-03064]
- SIAM Gravitation Grant from the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science [024.002.002]
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Two isolates of aerobic, budding, pink-pigmented bacteria, designated strains PX4(T) and PT1, were isolated from a boreal Sphagnum peat bog and a forested tundra wetland. Cells of these strains were non-motile spheres that occurred singly or in short chains. Novel isolates were capable of growth at pH values between 3.5 and 6.5 (optimum at pH 5.0-5.5) and at temperatures between 6 and 30 degrees C (optimum at 15-25 degrees C). Most sugars and a number of polysaccharides including pectin, xylan, lichenin and Phytagel were used as growth substrates. The major fatty acids were C-16 : 0, C-18 : 1 omega 9 and C-18 : 0; the major polar lipids were phosphocholine and trimethylornithine. The quinone was menaquinone-6, and the G+C content of the DNA was 66 mol%. Strains PX4(T) and PT1 were members of the order Planctomycetales and displayed 93-94 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to Aquisphaera giovannonii, 91-92 % to species of the genus Singulisphaera and 90-91 % to Isosphaera pallida. The two novel strains, however, differed from members of these genera by cell morphology, substrate utilization pattern and a number of physiological characteristics. Based on these data, the novel isolates should be considered as representing a novel genus and species of planctomycetes, for which the name Paludisphaera borealis gen. nov., sp. nov., is proposed. The type strain is PX4(T) (=DSM 28747(T)=VKM B-2904(T)). We also suggest the establishment of a novel family, Isosphaeraceae fam. nov., to accommodate stalk-free planctomycetes with spherical cells, which can be assembled in short chains, long filaments or shapeless aggregates. This family includes the genera Isosphaera, Aquisphaera, Singulisphaera and Paludisphaera.
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