Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10879708 | Systematic and Applied Microbiology | 2005 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Four thermophilic, spore-forming bacterial strains, DS1T, DS2, 46 and 49, were isolated from the high-temperature Dagang oilfield, located in China. The strains were identified by using the polyphasic taxonomy approach. These were aerobic, gram-positive, rod-shaped, moderately thermophilic (with an optimum growth temperature of 60-65 °C), chemoorganotrophic bacteria capable of growing on various sugars, carboxylic acids and crude oil. Two strains, DS1T and DS2, were capable of growing on individual saturated hydrocarbons. The G+C content of the DNA of strains DS1T and DS2 was 54.5 and 53.8 mol%, respectively. The phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rDNA of strains DS1T and DS2 showed that they form a separate cluster within the genus Geobacillus. The cellular fatty acids of the isolates were dominated by iso-15:0, iso-16:0 and iso-17:0 acids, which are the typical fatty acids of bacteria from the genus Geobacillus. The DNAâDNA hybridization study and the comparative analysis of the morphological and chemotaxonomic characteristics of strains DS1T and DS2 showed that they differ from the previously described Geobacillus species and belong to a new species, which was called Geobacillus jurassicus. DS1T (=VKM B-2301T,=DSM 15726T) is the type strain of this species According to both DNA-DNA reassociation studies and 16S rDNA sequence analysis, two other strains, 46 and 49, were assigned to the species G. stearothermophilus. In this paper, we provide evidence that the new combinations G. stearothermophilus, G. thermoleovorans, G. kaustophilus, G. thermoglucosidasius and G. thermodenitrificans may be considered to be valid.
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Authors
Tamara N. Nazina, Diana Sh. Sokolova, Alexander A. Grigoryan, Nataliya M. Shestakova, Ekaterina M. Mikhailova, Andrei B. Poltaraus, Tatiyana P. Tourova, Anatolii M. Lysenko, George A. Osipov, Sergey S. Belyaev,