title: Bacillus lacus sp. nov., isolated from a water sample of a salt lake in India
creator: Singh, Harjodh
creator: Kaur, Manpreet
creator: Kaur, Lakhwinder
creator: Sharma, Shivani
creator: Mishra, Sunita
creator: Tanuku, Naga Radha Srinivas
creator: Pinnaka, Anil Kumar
subject: QR Microbiology
description: A strictly aerobic, alkaliphilic, Gram-stain-positive, motile, rod-shaped bacterium, designated strain AK74T, was isolated from a water sample collected from Sambhar salt lake, Rajasthan, India. Colonies were circular, 1.2 mm in diameter, shiny, smooth, whitish and convex with an entire margin after 48 h growth at 37 °C with pH 9.0. Growth occurred at 25-42 °C, 0-4 % (w/v) NaCl and at a pH of 7-12. Strain AK74T was positive for aesculinase, caseinase, lipase activities and negative for oxidase, catalase, amylase, cellulase, DNase, gelatinase and urease activities. The fatty acids were dominated by branched iso-, anteiso- and saturated fatty acids with a high abundance of iso-C15 : 0, anteiso-C15 : 0, C16 : 0 and C16 : 1 and the cell-wall peptidoglycan contained meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid. The DNA G+C content of strain AK74T was 51.6 mol%. A blast sequence similarity search based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that Bacillus niabensis, Bacillus idriensisand Bacillus halosaccharovorans were the nearest phylogenetic neighbours, with a pair-wise sequence similarities of 96.6, 96.6 and 96.5%, respectively. Phylogenetic analysis showed that strain AK74T clustered with Bacillus mangrove and together clustered with Bacillus idriensisand Bacillus indicus. Based on its phenotypic characteristics and on phylogenetic inference, strain AK74T represents a novel species of the genus Bacillus, for which the name Bacilluslacus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is AK74T (=MTCC 12638T=KCTC 33946T=JCM 32185T).
publisher: Society for General Microbiology
date: 2018-01-29
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002588
identifier:   Singh, Harjodh and Kaur, Manpreet and Kaur, Lakhwinder and Sharma, Shivani and Mishra, Sunita and Tanuku, Naga Radha Srinivas and Pinnaka, Anil Kumar  (2018) Bacillus lacus sp. nov., isolated from a water sample of a salt lake in India.   International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 68 (3).  pp. 801-809.  ISSN 1466-5026     
relation: http://crdd.osdd.net/open/2002/