title: Haloterrigena saccharevitans sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon from Xin-Jiang, China.
abstract: A novel extremely halophilic strain, isolated from Aibi salt lake, Xin-Jiang, China, was subjected to polyphasic taxonomic characterization. This strain, designated AB14T, is neutrophilic, motile and requires at least 10 % (w/v) NaCl for growth. Strain AB14T grows at 24-58 degrees C, with optimal growth at 42-45 degrees C. Mg2+ is not required, but growth is observed in MgCl2 concentrations as high as 1.0 M. Strain AB14T possesses the diphytanyl (C20C20) and phytanyl-sesterterpanyl diether (C20C25) derivatives of phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol phosphate methyl ester and mannose-2,6 disulfate 1-->2 glucose-glycerol diether. The genomic DNA G+C content is 66.6 mol%. The 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity values of strain AB14T with its nearest phylogenetic neighbours (Haloterrigena thermotolerans and Haloterrigena turkmenica) are 98.6 and 96.0 %, respectively. DNA-DNA hybridization revealed 54 % relatedness between strain AB14T and Haloterrigena thermotolerans JCM 11050T and 21 % between strain AB14T and Haloterrigena turkmenica JCM 9101T. It is therefore proposed that strain AB14T represents a novel species, for which the name Haloterrigena saccharevitans sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is AB14T (=AS 1.3730T=JCM 12889T).
authors.affiliation: Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ZhongGuanCun, Haidian, Beijing 100080, P. R. China.|College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Xue-Wei
authors.initials: XW
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ZhongGuanCun, Haidian, Beijing 100080, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Shuang-Jiang
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi 830054, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Dilbar
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tohty
authors.affiliation: Institute of Life Sciences and the Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
authors.forename: Aharon
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Oren
authors.affiliation: College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ZhongGuanCun, Haidian, Beijing 100080, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Pei-Jin
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D001482:Base Composition; D002681:China; D019641:DNA, Archaeal / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D016931:Halobacteriales / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism; D008055:Lipids / Q000032:analysis; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010641:Phenotype; D010802:Phylogeny; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012965:Sodium Chloride; D014871:Water Microbiology
chemical_list: D019641:DNA, Archaeal; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal; D008055:Lipids; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; D012965:Sodium Chloride