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Syiemiong D, Rabha J. Unveiling nature's treasures: actinobacteria from Meghalaya's mining sites as sources of bioactive compounds. Arch Microbiol 2024; 206:64. [PMID: 38224372 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-023-03791-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2023] [Revised: 12/08/2023] [Accepted: 12/09/2023] [Indexed: 01/16/2024]
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Coal and sillimanite mining sites present unique ecological niches favoring the growth of actinobacteria, a group of Gram-positive bacteria known for producing a wide array of bioactive compounds. Isolating these bacteria from such environments could unveil novel compounds with potential biotechnological applications. This study involved the isolation of actinobacteria from two mining sites in Meghalaya, India. The dominant genera from both sites were Streptomyces, Amycolatopsis, Nocardia, and Streptosporangium. Metabolic pathway prediction from 16S rRNA gene revealed several pathways beneficial for plant growth. Exploration of biosynthetic genes indicated a prevalence of the type-II polyketide synthase gene. Sequencing the ketosynthase-alpha domain of the gene led to predictions of various bioactive secondary metabolites. Around 44% of the isolates demonstrated antimicrobial properties, with some also displaying plant growth-promoting traits. Amycolatopsis SD-15 exhibited promising results in planta when tested on tomato plants. These findings highlight the potential of actinobacteria from Meghalaya's mining sites across medical, agricultural, and industrial domains.
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- Debulman Syiemiong
- Department of Botany, St. Edmund's College, Shillong, 793003, India.
- Microbial Ecology Laboratory, Department of Botany, Gauhati University, Guwahati, 781014, India.
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- Microbial Ecology Laboratory, Department of Botany, Gauhati University, Guwahati, 781014, India
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Ortúzar M, Trujillo ME, Román-Ponce B, Carro L. Micromonospora metallophores: A plant growth promotion trait useful for bacterial-assisted phytoremediation? THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 739:139850. [PMID: 32554115 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2020] [Revised: 05/28/2020] [Accepted: 05/29/2020] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Heavy metal pollution in the environment is an increasing problem due to natural and anthropogenic activities. The use of bacteria for bioremediation of soils contaminated with heavy metals has gained a lot of attention as it can be considered effective, economic and environmentally sustainable. In this work, we investigated the capacity of endophytic Micromonospora strains isolated from different legumes, to produce metallophores against a variety of heavy metals in vitro. Genome mining using available endophytic Micromonospora genome sequences revealed the presence of genes related to metal acquisition, iron metabolism and resistance to toxic compounds. In vitro production of metallophores demonstrated that all strains tested produced chelates against arsenic, cobalt, copper, chromium, iron, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, vanadium and zinc in different amounts. In addition, the plant growth promotion effect of strains GAR05 and PSN13 on Arabidopsis thaliana grown in the presence of several heavy metals was tested. Under these conditions, the plants inoculated with the strain GAR05 showed significant growth when compared to the control plants suggesting a plant growth promotion effect in the form of tolerance to the toxic substances. Furthermore, during this plant-bacterium interaction, a new bacterial structure named root-bead was observed on the roots of A. thaliana suggesting a strong interaction between the two organisms and a clear positive effect of the bacterium on the plant. Overall, these results highlight the potential use of endophytic Micromonospora strains for bacterial-assisted phytoremediation of contaminated sites.
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- Maite Ortúzar
- Department of Microbiology and Genetics, Edificio Departamental, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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- Department of Microbiology and Genetics, Edificio Departamental, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
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- Department of Microbiology and Genetics, Edificio Departamental, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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- Department of Microbiology and Genetics, Edificio Departamental, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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Zadel U, Nesme J, Michalke B, Vestergaard G, Płaza GA, Schröder P, Radl V, Schloter M. Changes induced by heavy metals in the plant-associated microbiome of Miscanthus x giganteus. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 711:134433. [PMID: 31818597 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2019] [Revised: 09/11/2019] [Accepted: 09/11/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Miscanthus x giganteus is a high biomass producing plant with tolerance to heavy metals. This makes Miscanthus interesting to be used for phytoremediation of heavy metal contaminated areas coupled with energy production. Since plant performance in metal polluted areas is impaired, their growth and phytoremediation effect can be improved with bacterial assistance. To identify positive and negative responders of M. x giganteus associated microbiome influenced by Cd, Pb and Zn stress compared to non-contaminated controls, we designed a greenhouse experiment. Structure of the bacterial community in three rhizocompartments, namely rhizosphere, rhizoplane and root endosphere was analysed using an isolation independent molecular approach based on 16S rRNA gene barcoding. Furthermore, quantitative PCR (qPCR) was used for bacterial biomass estimation. Our results indicated that biomass and total bacterial diversity in rhizosphere, rhizoplane and root endosphere did not significantly change despite of substantial root uptake of heavy metals. Overall, we detected 6621 OTUs, from which 171 were affected by metal addition. Whereas Streptomyces and Amycolatopsis taxa were negatively affected by the heavy metal treatment in endosphere, taxa assigned to Luteolibacter in rhizosphere and rhizoplane (log2 fold change 1.9-4.1) and Micromonospora in endosphere (log2 fold change 10.2) were found to be significantly enriched and highly abundant (0.1-3.7% relative abundance) under heavy metal stress. Those taxa might be of key importance for M. x giganteus performance under heavy metal pollution and might be interesting candidates for the development of new bioinocula in the future to promote plant growth and phytoremediation in heavy metal contaminated soils.
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- Urška Zadel
- Helmholtz Zentrum München, Research Unit Comparative Microbiome Analysis, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München, Research Unit Comparative Microbiome Analysis, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; University of Copenhagen, Institute for Microbiology, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München, Research Unit Analytical Biogeochemistry, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München, Research Unit Comparative Microbiome Analysis, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; Technical University of Denmark, Section of Bioinformatics, Department of Health Technology, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
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- Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas, Department of Environmental Microbiology, 6 Kossutha Street, 40-844 Katowice, Poland.
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München, Research Unit Comparative Microbiome Analysis, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München, Research Unit Comparative Microbiome Analysis, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München, Research Unit Comparative Microbiome Analysis, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; Technical University of Munich, Chair for Soil Ecology, Emil-Ramann-Straße 2, 85354 Freising, Germany.
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A study of three bacteria isolated from marine sediment and description of Micromonospora globispora sp. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2018; 42:190-197. [PMID: 30528275 DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2018.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2018] [Revised: 11/05/2018] [Accepted: 11/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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During a study looking for the isolation of new actinobacteria strains with potential for antibiotic production from deep marine sediment, three strains were collected with a morphology similar to the one described for the Micromonospora genus. A polyphasic study was designed to determine the taxonomic affiliation of the strains S2901T, S2903, and S2904. All the strains showed chemotaxonomic properties in line with their classification in the genus Micromonospora, meso-diaminopimelic acid in the wall peptidoglycan, a tetrahydrogenated menaquinone with nine isoprene units as major respiratory quinone, iso-C15:0 and iso-C16:0 as major fatty acids and diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylinositol as major polar lipids. The 16S rRNA gene sequences of strain S2901T, S2903, and S2904 showed the highest similarity (99.2%) with the type strain of Micromonospora halophytica DSM 43171T, forming an independent branch in the phylogenetic gene tree. Their independent position was confirmed with gyrB gene and MLSA phylogenies. Whole genome sequences confirmed by digital DNA-DNA hybridization analysis that the isolates should be assigned to a new species within the genus Micromonospora for which the name Micromonospora globispora sp. nov. (S2901T, S2903 and S2904) is proposed.
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Riesco R, Carro L, Román-Ponce B, Prieto C, Blom J, Klenk HP, Normand P, Trujillo ME. Defining the Species Micromonospora saelicesensis and Micromonospora noduli Under the Framework of Genomics. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:1360. [PMID: 29988535 PMCID: PMC6026663 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2018] [Accepted: 06/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The type isolates of species Micromonospora saelicesensis and Micromonospora noduli are Gram-stain positive actinobacteria that were originally isolated from nitrogen fixing nodules of the legumes Lupinus angustifolius and Pisum sativum, respectively. These two species are very closely related and questions arise as to whether they should be merged into a single species. To better delineate the relationship of M. saelicesensis and M. noduli, 10 strains isolated from plant tissue (nodules and leaves) and identified by their 16S rRNA gene sequences as either M. saelicensesis or M. noduli, based on a cut-off value of ≥99.5% were selected for whole-genome sequencing and compared with the type strains of M. saelicesensis Lupac 09T and M. noduli GUI43T using overall genome relatedness indices (OGRI) which included ANI, OrthoANI and digital DNA-DNA hybridization. Whole- and core-genome phylogenomic analyses were also carried out. These results were compared with the topologies of the 16S rRNA and gyrB gene phylogenies. Good correlation was found between all trees except for the 16S rRNA gene. Overall results also supported the current classification of M. saelicesensis and M. noduli as separate species. Especially useful was the core-genome phylogenetic analyses based on 92 genes and the dDDH results which were highly correlated. The importance of using more than one strain for a better definition of a species was also shown. A series of in vitro phenotypic assays performed at different times were compared with in silico predictions based on genomic data. In vitro phenotypic tests showed discrepancies among the independent studies, confirming the lack of reproducibility even when tests were performed in the same laboratory. On the other hand, the use of in silico predictions proved useful for defining a stable phenotype profile among the strains analyzed. These results provide a working framework for defining Micromonospora species at the genomic and phenotypic level.
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- Raúl Riesco
- Departament of Microbiology and Genetics, Edificio Departamental, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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- Departament of Microbiology and Genetics, Edificio Departamental, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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- Departament of Microbiology and Genetics, Edificio Departamental, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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- Servicio de Bioinformática, NUCLEUS, Edificio I+D+i, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-UMR5557 Ecologie Microbienne, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon1, Villeurbanne, France
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- Departament of Microbiology and Genetics, Edificio Departamental, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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Kou S, Vincent G, Gonzalez E, Pitre FE, Labrecque M, Brereton NJB. The Response of a 16S Ribosomal RNA Gene Fragment Amplified Community to Lead, Zinc, and Copper Pollution in a Shanghai Field Trial. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:366. [PMID: 29545788 PMCID: PMC5838024 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2017] [Accepted: 02/16/2018] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Industrial and agricultural activities have caused extensive metal contamination of land throughout China and across the globe. The pervasive nature of metal pollution can be harmful to human health and can potentially cause substantial negative impact to the biosphere. To investigate the impact of anthropogenic metal pollution found in high concentrations in industrial, agricultural, and urban environments, 16S ribosomal RNA gene amplicon sequencing was used to track change in the amplified microbial community after metal contamination in a large-scale field experiment in Shanghai. A total of 1,566 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) identified from 448,108 sequences gathered from 20 plots treated as controls or with lead, zinc, copper, or all three metals. Constrained Analysis of Principal Coordinates ordination did not separate control and lead treatment but could separate control/lead, zinc, copper, and three metal treatment. DESeq2 was applied to identify 93 significantly differentially abundant OTUs varying in 211 pairwise instances between the treatments. Differentially abundant OTUs representing genera or species belonging to the phyla Chloroflexi, Cyanobacteria, Firmicutes, Latescibacteria, and Planctomycetes were almost universally reduced in abundance due to zinc, copper, or three metal treatment; with three metal treatment abolishing the detection of some OTUs, such as Leptolyngbya, Desmonostoc muscorum, and Microcoleus steenstrupii. The greatest increases due to metal treatment were observed in Bacteroidetes, Actinobacteria, Chlamydiae, Nitrospirae, and Proteobacteria (α, β, δ, and γ); the most (relative) abundant being uncharacterized species within the genera Methylobacillus, Solirubrobacter, and Ohtaekwangia. Three metal treatment alone resulted in identification of 22 OTUs (genera or species) which were not detected in control soil, notably including Yonghaparkia alkaliphila, Pedobacter steynii, Pseudolabrys taiwanensis, Methylophilus methylotrophus, Nitrosospira, and Lysobacter mobilis. The capacity to track alterations of an amplified microbial community at high taxonomic resolution using modern bioinformatic approaches, as well as identifying where that resolution is lost for technical or biological reasons, provides an insight into the complexity of the microbial world resisting anthropogenic pollution. While functional assessment of uncharacterized organisms within environmental samples is technically challenging, an important step is observing those organisms able to tolerate extreme stress and to recognize the extent to which important amplifiable community members still require characterization.
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- Shumeng Kou
- Shanghai Chenshan Plant Science Research Center, Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Chenshan Plant Science Research Center, Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, Shanghai, China
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- Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics, McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Institut de Recherche en Biologie Végétale, Montreal Botanical Garden, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Institut de Recherche en Biologie Végétale, Montreal Botanical Garden, Montréal, QC, Canada
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Carro L, Nouioui I, Sangal V, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Trujillo ME, Montero-Calasanz MDC, Sahin N, Smith DL, Kim KE, Peluso P, Deshpande S, Woyke T, Shapiro N, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Göker M, Goodfellow M. Genome-based classification of micromonosporae with a focus on their biotechnological and ecological potential. Sci Rep 2018; 8:525. [PMID: 29323202 PMCID: PMC5765111 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-17392-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2017] [Accepted: 11/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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There is a need to clarify relationships within the actinobacterial genus Micromonospora, the type genus of the family Micromonosporaceae, given its biotechnological and ecological importance. Here, draft genomes of 40 Micromonospora type strains and two non-type strains are made available through the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea project and used to generate a phylogenomic tree which showed they could be assigned to well supported phyletic lines that were not evident in corresponding trees based on single and concatenated sequences of conserved genes. DNA G+C ratios derived from genome sequences showed that corresponding data from species descriptions were imprecise. Emended descriptions include precise base composition data and approximate genome sizes of the type strains. antiSMASH analyses of the draft genomes show that micromonosporae have a previously unrealised potential to synthesize novel specialized metabolites. Close to one thousand biosynthetic gene clusters were detected, including NRPS, PKS, terpenes and siderophores clusters that were discontinuously distributed thereby opening up the prospect of prioritising gifted strains for natural product discovery. The distribution of key stress related genes provide an insight into how micromonosporae adapt to key environmental variables. Genes associated with plant interactions highlight the potential use of micromonosporae in agriculture and biotechnology.
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- Lorena Carro
- School of Biology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
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- School of Biology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Inhoffenstraße 7B, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Departamento de Microbiologia y Genetica, Lab 214, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Art and Science, Ondokuz Mayis University, Kurupelit-Samsun, Turkey
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Pacific Biosciences, 1380 Willow Rd, Menlo Park, California, USA
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- Pacific Biosciences, 1380 Willow Rd, Menlo Park, California, USA
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- DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA
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- DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA
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- School of Biology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Inhoffenstraße 7B, Braunschweig, Germany
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Veyisoglu A, Carro L, Cetin D, Guven K, Spröer C, Pötter G, Klenk HP, Sahin N, Goodfellow M. Micromonospora profundi sp. nov., isolated from deep marine sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4735-4743. [PMID: 27515497 DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.001419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A novel actinobacterial strain, designated DS3010T, was isolated from a Black Sea marine sediment and characterized using a polyphasic approach. The strain was shown to have chemotaxonomic, morphological and phylogenetic properties consistent with classification as representing a member of the genus Micromonospora. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence studies showed that the strain was most closely related to the type strains of Micromonospora saelicesensis (99.5 %), Micromonospora chokoriensis (99.4 %) and Micromonospora violae (99.3 %). Similarly, a corresponding analysis based on partial gyrB gene sequences showed that it formed a distinct phyletic branch in a subclade that included the type strains of Micromonosporazamorensis, 'Micromonospora zeae', 'Micromonospora jinlongensis', M. saelicesensis and Micromonospora lupini. DS3010T was distinguished from its closest phylogenetic neighbours by low levels of DNA-DNA relatedness and by a combination of chemotaxonomic and phenotypic properties. On the basis of these data, it is proposed that the isolate should be assigned to the genus Micromonospora as Micromonospora profundi sp. nov. with isolate DS3010T (=DSM 45981T=KCTC 29243T) as the type strain.
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- Aysel Veyisoglu
- Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Sinop University, Nasuhbasoglu-Sinop 57000, Turkey
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- School of Biology, Newcastle University, Ridley Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
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- Science Teaching Programme, Gazi Faculty of Education, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Anadolu University, Faculty of Science, Biology Department, Eskisehir 26470, Turkey
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Inhoffenstraße 7B, Braunschweig 38124, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Inhoffenstraße 7B, Braunschweig 38124, Germany
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- School of Biology, Newcastle University, Ridley Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Art and Science, Ondokuz Mayis University, Kurupelit-Samsun 55139, Turkey
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- School of Biology, Newcastle University, Ridley Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
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