Journal article

Publication year: 2003

Pages: 23-29

Journal: Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volume number: 26

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 0723-2020

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1078/072320203322337272

Publisher: Elsevier

Abstract: 
Two bacterial isolates (170/96T and 173/96T) were recovered from the indoor building materials of a children's day care center. Phylogenetic analyses using the 16S rRNA gene sequences of both isolates indicated they both represent new lineages in the alpha-1-subclass of the Proteobacteria, with the highest sequence similarities of 93.7% and 93.6%, respectively to the type strain of Paracraurococcus ruber. When directly compared both isolates showed a 93.4% sequence similarity of their 16S rRNAs. The major respiratory quinone in both strains was a ubiquinone with 10 isoprenoid units and the major whole cell fatty acid of both strains was 18:1 omega7c. Both isolates also contained 18:1 2-OH and other fatty acids typical for members of the alpha-1 subclass of the Proteobacteria. Both strains were heterotrophic and strictly aerobic and formed slightly red-colored colonies on tryptone soy agar. Bacteriochlorophyll a could not be detected by direct spectrophotometric analyses of aerobically grown cells. On the basis of the phylogenetic analyses, physiological and biochemical characteristics, we propose that strains 170/96T and 173/96T represent two new genera and new species of the alpha-1 subclass of the Proteobacteria for which we propose the names Teichococcus ludipueritiae gen. nov. sp. nov., and Muricoccus roseus gen. nov. sp. nov., respectively.

Harvard Citation style: Kämpfer, P., Andersson, M., Jäckel, U. and Salkinoja-Salonen, M. (2003) Teichococcus ludipueritiae gen. nov. sp. nov., and Muricoccus roseus gen. nov. sp. nov. representing two new genera of the alpha-1 subclass of the Proteobacteria., Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 26(1), pp. 23-29. https://doi.org/10.1078/072320203322337272

APA Citation style: Kämpfer, P., Andersson, M., Jäckel, U., & Salkinoja-Salonen, M. (2003). Teichococcus ludipueritiae gen. nov. sp. nov., and Muricoccus roseus gen. nov. sp. nov. representing two new genera of the alpha-1 subclass of the Proteobacteria.. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 26(1), 23-29. https://doi.org/10.1078/072320203322337272