@article{open967,
          volume = {54},
          number = {2},
          author = {K. Suresh and G.S.N. Reddy and S Sengupta and S Shivaji},
            note = {Copyright of this article belongs International Union of Microbiological Societies. },
           title = {Deinococcus indicus sp. nov., an arsenic-resistant bacterium from an aquifer in West Bengal, India},
       publisher = {International Union of Microbiological Societies },
            year = {2004},
         journal = {INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY},
           pages = {457--461},
        keywords = {DPG, diphosphatidylglycerolPC, phosphatidylcholinePG, phosphatidylglycerolPI, phosphatidylinositol},
             url = {http://crdd.osdd.net/open/967/},
        abstract = {An arsenic- and radiation-resistant bacterium, strain Wt/1aT, was isolated from water from an arsenic-contaminated aquifer located in the Chakdah district of West Bengal, India. The bacterium stains Gram-negative and is rod-shaped, non-motile, non-sporulating and red-pigmented. Cell-wall peptidoglycan contains ornithine as the diamino acid, MK-8 is the major menaquinone, C15 : 1 and C16 : 1 are the major fatty acids and the DNA G+C content of the organism is 65?8 mol\%. Based on these phenotypic and chemotaxonomic characteristics, strain Wt/1aT was identified as a member of the genus Deinococcus. Strain Wt/1aT exhibited maximum 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity (95 \%) with Deinococcus grandis; however, strain Wt/1aT exhibited only 14 \% similarity to D. grandis IAM 13005T at the DNA?DNA level. Furthermore, strain Wt/1aT (compared to D. grandis IAM 13005T) is more resistant to arsenate and arsenite, is positive for arginine dihydrolase, utilizes a number of carbon sources and exhibits quantitative differences in fatty acid composition and qualitative differences in lipid composition. Strain Wt/1aT is identified as a novel species of the genus Deinococcus, for which the name Deinococcus indicus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Deinococcus indicus is Wt/1aT (=MTCC 4913T=DSM 15307T). }
}