Affiliation:
1. Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, QC H9X 3V9, Canada
Abstract
A novel aerobic, Gram-positive, motile, coccoid bacterial strain, designated Or1T, was isolated from permafrost active-layer soil collected from the Canadian high Arctic. Strain Or1T was capable of growth over a broad temperature range, including sub-zero growth (below −10 to 37 °C), and at high salinity (0–19 % NaCl), growing optimally at 25 °C, at pH 7.0–8.0 and in the presence of 2 % NaCl. Its taxonomic and phylogenetic position was determined by using a polyphasic approach, which indicated that strain Or1T was a member of the genus
Planococcus
. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain Or1T belonged to the genus
Planococcus
, differing by 0.4–3.6 % from the type strains of all recognized
Planococcus
species, and was related most closely to
Planococcus antarcticus
CMS 26orT (98.8 % similarity) and
Planococcus donghaensis
JH1T (99.6 %). However, DNA–DNA hybridization experiments showed that strain Or1T had low genomic relatedness to
Planococcus antarcticus
CMS 26orT (18 %) and
Planococcus donghaensis
JH1T (46 %). The major menaquinones of strain Or1T were MK-7 (55 %), MK-8 (36 %) and MK-6 (9 %) and the major fatty acids were anteiso-C15 : 0, C16 : 1ω7c alcohol and anteiso-C17 : 0. The DNA G+C content of strain Or1T was 40.5 mol%. Differential phenotypic, phylogenetic and genomic data suggest that strain Or1T represents a novel species of the genus
Planococcus
, for which the name Planococcus halocryophilus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is Or1T ( = DSM 24743T = JCM 17719T).
Funder
Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Canadian Analogue Research Network
Polar Continental Shelf Program
Canadian Foundation for Innovation
Canada Research Chair program
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Subject
General Medicine,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics,Microbiology
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