Thermodesulfobium acidiphilum sp. nov., a thermoacidophilic, sulfate-reducing, chemoautotrophic bacterium from a thermal site

Evgenii N. Frolov*, Ilya V. Kublanov, Stepan V. Toshchakov, Nazar I. Samarov, Andrei A. Novikov, Alexander V. Lebedinsky, Elizaveta A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Nikolai A. Chernyh

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Abstract

An obligately anaerobic, sulfate-reducing micro-organism, strain 3127-1T, was isolated from geothermally heated soil (Oil Site, Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka, Russia). The new isolate was a moderately thermoacidophilic anaerobe able to grow with H2 or formate by respiration of sulfate or thiosulfate. The pH range for growth was 3.7–6.5, with an optimum at 4.8–5.0. The temperature range for growth was 37–65 °C, with an optimum at 55 °C. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 33.7 mol%. The genome of strain 3127-1T contained two almost identical 16S rRNA genes, differing by a single nucleotide substitution. The closest 16S rRNA gene sequence of a validly published species belonged to Thermodesulfobium narugense Na82T (99.5% similarity). However, the average nucleotide identity of the genomes of strain 3127-1T and T. narugense Na82T and the predicted DNA–DNA hybridization value (GGDC 2.1 BLAST+, formula 2) were as low as 86 and 32.5±2.5%, respectively. This, together with phenotypic data, showed the new isolate to belong to a novel species, for which the name Thermodesulfobium acidiphilum sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 3127-1T (=DSM 102892T=VKM B-3043T).

Original languageEnglish
Article number001745
Pages (from-to)1482-1485
Number of pages4
JournalInternational Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
Volume67
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2017
Externally publishedYes

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Keywords

  • Anaerobe
  • Geothermally heated soil
  • Sulfate reductions
  • Thermoacidophilic bacterium
  • Thermodesulfobium

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