title: Halomonas campaniensis sp. nov., a haloalkaliphilic bacterium isolated from a mineral pool of Campania Region, Italy.
abstract: A Gram-negative, aerobic, motile and rod-shaped haloalkaliphilic bacterial strain 5AGT (DSM 15293 and ATCC BAA-966) was isolated from water with algal mat of a mineral pool in Malvizza site (Campania-Italy) and was subjected to a polyphasic study. The isolate grew at temperature of 10.0-43.0 degrees C with an optimum at 37.0 degrees C. Strain 5AGT grew optimally in the presence of 10% NaCl and grew also in the absence of salt. The isolate grew in the pH range 7.0-10.0 with an optimum at pH 9.0. It accumulated glycine-betaine, ectoine, and glutamate, as osmoprotectants. Strain 5AGT was also characterized chemotaxonomically by having ubiquinone-8 (Q8) as the predominant isoprenoid quinone, phosphoethanolamine (PEA), phosphatidylglycerol (PG) and diphosphatidylglycerol (DPG), as major polar lipids and aiC16:0 and C18:1cis as the major fatty acids. The DNA G+C content was 63.7mol%. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequence showed that the isolate belonged to the genus Halomonas. The DNA-DNA hybridization of the type strain 5AGT with the most related Halomonas campisalis showed a re-association value of 35.0%. On the basis of phenotypic properties and phylogeny, strain 5AGT should be placed in the genus Halomonas as a member of a novel species for which we propose the name Halomonas campaniensis sp. nov.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare, Comprensorio ex Olivetti, via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Na, Italy.
authors.forename: Ida
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Romano
authors.forename: Assunta
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Giordano
authors.forename: Licia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lama
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Nicolaus
authors.forename: Agata
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gambacorta
mesh_terms: D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000032:analysis; D005618:Fresh Water / Q000737:chemistry / Q000382:microbiology*; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D020459:Genes, rRNA; D020632:Halomonas / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D007558:Italy; D008055:Lipids / Q000032:analysis; D008903:Minerals; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010641:Phenotype; D010802:Phylogeny; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D005227:Fatty Acids; D008055:Lipids; D008903:Minerals; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S