Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10879838 | Systematic and Applied Microbiology | 2005 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
Seven strains of dibenzofuran (DF)-degrading bacteria isolated from dioxin-polluted environments were characterized. These isolates were able to grow with dibenzofuran as the sole carbon and energy source. During the growth with dibenzofuran, they produced a soluble yellow metabolite that exhibited a unique pH-dependent shift of absorption maxima. Dibenzo-p-dioxin and biphenyl were also degraded with pigment production. The isolates were strictly aerobic and chemoorganotrophic and had Gram-positive, nonmotile, rod-shaped cells. Chemotaxonomic analyses showed that cells contained L,L-diaminopimeric acid in the peptidoglycan, branched-chain fatty acids as major fatty acids, and menaquinone MK-8(H4) as the sole respiratory quinone. The G+C content of the DNA of the isolates ranged from 72.0 to 72.4 mol%. The 16S rRNA gene sequences of the isolates were very similar to each other (⩾99.8%). The phylogenetic analysis showed that the isolates formed a cluster with species of the genus Nocardioides with Nocardioides simplex and Nocardioides nitrophenolicus as their nearest neighbors. DNA-DNA hybridization studies showed that the isolates showed a hybridization level of less than 55% to any tested species of the genus Nocardioides. Based on these data, Nocardioides aromaticivorans sp. nov. is proposed for the new DF-degrading isolates. The type strain is strain H-1 (IAM 14992, JCM 11674, DSM 15131).
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Authors
Masahiro Kubota, Kazuyoshi Kawahara, Kachiko Sekiya, Tetsuya Uchida, Yasuko Hattori, Hiroyuki Futamata, Akira Hiraishi,