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Deinococcus phoenicis sp. nov., an extreme ionizing-radiation-resistant bacterium isolated from the Phoenix Lander assembly facility.

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Title Deinococcus phoenicis sp. nov., an extreme ionizing-radiation-resistant bacterium isolated from the Phoenix Lander assembly facility.
 
Creator Vaishampayan, Parag
Roberts, Anne Hayden
Augustus, Angela
Pukall, Rüdiger
Schumann, Peter
Schwendner, Petra
Mayilraj, Shanmugam
Salmassi, Tina
Venkateswaran, Kasthuri
 
Subject QR Microbiology
 
Description A bacterial strain, designated 1P10ME(T), which was resistant to extreme doses of ionizing radiation, pale-pink, non-motile, and a tetrad-forming coccoid was isolated from a cleanroom at the Kennedy Space Center, where the Phoenix spacecraft was assembled. Strain 1P10ME(T) showed optimum growth at 30 °C, with a pH range for growth of 6.5-9.0 and was highly sensitive to sodium chloride, growing only in medium with no added NaCl. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strain 1P10ME(T) represents a novel member of the genus Deinococcus, with low sequence similarities (8 kGy) and UV (D10 >1000 Jm(-2)). The results of our polyphasic taxonomic analyses suggest that strain 1P10ME(T) represents a novel species of the genus Deinococcus, for which the name Deinococcus phoenicis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 1P10ME(T) ( = NRRL B-59546(T) = DSM 27173(T)).
 
Publisher Society for General Microbiology
 
Date 2014-10
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Relation http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.063107-0#tab2
http://crdd.osdd.net/open/1680/
 
Identifier Vaishampayan, Parag and Roberts, Anne Hayden and Augustus, Angela and Pukall, Rüdiger and Schumann, Peter and Schwendner, Petra and Mayilraj, Shanmugam and Salmassi, Tina and Venkateswaran, Kasthuri (2014) Deinococcus phoenicis sp. nov., an extreme ionizing-radiation-resistant bacterium isolated from the Phoenix Lander assembly facility. International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, 64 (Pt 10). pp. 3441-6. ISSN 1466-5034