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Bacillus lacus sp. nov., isolated from a water sample of a salt lake in India

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Title Bacillus lacus sp. nov., isolated from a water sample of a salt lake in India
 
Creator Singh, Harjodh
Kaur, Manpreet
Kaur, Lakhwinder
Sharma, Shivani
Mishra, Sunita
Tanuku, Naga Radha Srinivas
Pinnaka, Anil Kumar
 
Subject QR Microbiology
 
Description A strictly aerobic, alkaliphilic, Gram-stain-positive, motile, rod-shaped bacterium, designated strain AK74T, was isolated from a water sample collected from Sambhar salt lake, Rajasthan, India. Colonies were circular, 1.2 mm in diameter, shiny, smooth, whitish and convex with an entire margin after 48 h growth at 37 °C with pH 9.0. Growth occurred at 25-42 °C, 0-4 % (w/v) NaCl and at a pH of 7-12. Strain AK74T was positive for aesculinase, caseinase, lipase activities and negative for oxidase, catalase, amylase, cellulase, DNase, gelatinase and urease activities. The fatty acids were dominated by branched iso-, anteiso- and saturated fatty acids with a high abundance of iso-C15 : 0, anteiso-C15 : 0, C16 : 0 and C16 : 1 and the cell-wall peptidoglycan contained meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid. The DNA G+C content of strain AK74T was 51.6 mol%. A blast sequence similarity search based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that Bacillus niabensis, Bacillus idriensisand Bacillus halosaccharovorans were the nearest phylogenetic neighbours, with a pair-wise sequence similarities of 96.6, 96.6 and 96.5%, respectively. Phylogenetic analysis showed that strain AK74T clustered with Bacillus mangrove and together clustered with Bacillus idriensisand Bacillus indicus. Based on its phenotypic characteristics and on phylogenetic inference, strain AK74T represents a novel species of the genus Bacillus, for which the name Bacilluslacus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is AK74T (=MTCC 12638T=KCTC 33946T=JCM 32185T).
 
Publisher Society for General Microbiology
 
Date 2018-01-29
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002588
http://crdd.osdd.net/open/2002/
 
Identifier Singh, Harjodh and Kaur, Manpreet and Kaur, Lakhwinder and Sharma, Shivani and Mishra, Sunita and Tanuku, Naga Radha Srinivas and Pinnaka, Anil Kumar (2018) Bacillus lacus sp. nov., isolated from a water sample of a salt lake in India. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 68 (3). pp. 801-809. ISSN 1466-5026