Journal article

Publication year: 2000

Pages: 35-41

Journal: International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volume number: 50

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 1466-5026

eISSN: 1466-5034

Open access status: Bronze

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-1-35

Publisher: Microbiology Society

Abstract: 
The taxonomic position of two bacterial strains, BN6T and N,N, with the ability to degrade xenobiotic aromatic compounds (naphthalenesulfonates or N,N-dimethylaniline) was investigated. The 165 rRNA gene sequence, the G+C content of the DNA (62-63 mol%) and the detection of ubiquinone Q-10, 2-hydroxymyristic acid and the sphingoglycolipid present clearly placed the two strains into the genus Sphingomonas. Both strains are representatives of one species according to the level of DNA relatedness (70.7%). The strains could be separated from all validly described taxa of the genus Sphingomonas, according to the 16S rRNA gene sequence (the highest sequence similarity observed was 96 % to Sphingomonas yanoikuyae), the pattern of the polar lipids and physiological characteristics. Therefore, the new species Sphingomonas xenophaga is proposed to accommodate strains BN6T (= DSM 6383T) and N,N (= DSM 8566).

Harvard Citation style: Stolz, A., Schmidt-Maag, C., Denner, E., Busse, H., Egli, T. and Kämpfer, P. (2000) Description of Sphingomonas xenophaga sp. nov. for strains BN6T and N,N which degrade xenobiotic aromatic compounds., International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 50(1), pp. 35-41. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-1-35

APA Citation style: Stolz, A., Schmidt-Maag, C., Denner, E., Busse, H., Egli, T., & Kämpfer, P. (2000). Description of Sphingomonas xenophaga sp. nov. for strains BN6T and N,N which degrade xenobiotic aromatic compounds.. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 50(1), 35-41. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-1-35