title: Desulfurispira natronophila gen. nov. sp. nov.: an obligately anaerobic dissimilatory sulfur-reducing bacterium from soda lakes.
abstract: Anaerobic enrichment cultures with elemental sulfur as electron acceptor and either acetate or propionate as electron donor and carbon source at pH 10 and moderate salinity inoculated with sediments from soda lakes in Kulunda Steppe (Altai, Russia) resulted in the isolation of two novel members of the bacterial phylum Chrysiogenetes. The isolates, AHT11 and AHT19, represent the first specialized obligate anaerobic dissimilatory sulfur respirers from soda lakes. They use either elemental sulfur/polysulfide or arsenate as electron acceptor and a few simple organic compounds as electron donor and carbon source. Elemental sulfur is reduced to sulfide through intermediate polysulfide, while arsenate is reduced to arsenite. The bacteria belong to the obligate haloalkaliphiles, with a pH growth optimum from 10 to 10.2 and a salt range from 0.2 to 3.0 M Na(+) (optimum 0.4-0.6 M). According to the phylogenetic analysis, the two strains were close to each other, but distinct from the nearest relative, the haloalkaliphilic sulfur-reducing bacterium Desulfurispirillum alkaliphilum, which was isolated from a bioreactor. On the basis of distinct phenotype and phylogeny, the soda lake isolates are proposed as a new genus and species, Desulfurispira natronophila (type strain AHT11(T) = DSM22071(T) = UNIQEM U758(T)).
authors.affiliation: Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospect 60-let Octyabrya 7/2, Moscow, 117811, Russia. soroc@inmi.host.ru
authors.forename: D Y
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Sorokin
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Muyzer
mesh_terms: D000468:Alkalies; D000693:Anaerobiosis; D019149:Bioreactors; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010459:Peptococcaceae / Q000145:classification / Q000254:growth & development / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D010802:Phylogeny; D013455:Sulfur / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000468:Alkalies; D013455:Sulfur
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