Planococcus versutus sp. nov., isolated from soil

• Published in: International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
• Main Authors: See-Too, Wah-Seng, Ee, Robson, Madhaiyan, Munusamy, Kwon, Soon-Wo, Tan, Jia Yi, Lim, Yan Lue, Convey, Peter, Pearce, David, Yin, Wai Fong, Chan, Kok-Gan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Society for General Microbiology 2017
• Subjects: C500 Microbiology; Adelaide Island; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Lagoon Island; Antarc*; antarcticus
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/30914/; https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001721; https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/30914/1/IJSEM-D-16-00692_R2-2-2.pdf

A taxonomic study was performed on a novel Gram-stain-positive, coccus-shaped, orange-pigmented motile bacterium, designated as strain L10.15T. The organism was isolated from a soil sample collected in Lagoon Island (close to Adelaide Island, western Antarctic Peninsula) using a quorum-quenching enrichment medium. Growth occurred at 4–30 °C, pH 6–11 and at moderately high salinity (0–15 %, w/v, NaCl), with optimal growth at 26 °C, at pH 7–8 and with 6 % (w/v) NaCl. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that strain L10.15T belonged to the genus Planococcus and was closely related to Planococcus halocryophilus Or1T (99.3 % similarity), Planococcus donghaensis JH1T (99.0 %), Planococcus antarcticus DSM 14505T (98.3 %), Planococcus plakortidis AS/ASP6 (II)T (97.6 %), Planococcus maritimus TF-9T (97.5 %), Planococcus salinarum ISL-6T (97.5 %) and Planococcus kocurii NCIMB 629T (97.5 %). However, the average nucleotide identity-MUMmer analysis showed low genomic relatedness values of 71.1–81.7 % to the type strains of these closely related species of the genus Planococcus . The principal fatty acids were anteiso-C15 : 0, C16 : 1ω7c and anteiso-C17 : 0, and the major menaquinones of strain L10.15T were MK-5 (48 %), MK-6 (6 %) and MK-7 (44 %). Polar lipid analysis revealed the presence of phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol and aminophospholipid. The DNA G+C content was 39.4 mol%. The phenotypic and genotypic data indicate that strain L10.15T represents a novel species of the genus Planococcus , for which the name Planococcus versutus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is L10.15T (=DSM 101994T=KACC 18918T).