Aquirufa lenticrescens sp. nov. and Aquirufa aurantiipilula sp. nov.: two new species of a lineage of widespread freshwater bacteria.

ABSTRACT: Two bacterial strains, 9H-EGSE^T and 15D-MOB^T, were isolated from small freshwater habitats located near Salzburg, Austria. They showed the highest 16S rRNA sequence similarities of 100% and 99.9%, respectively, with type strains of species of the genus Aquirufa (Bacteroidota). Genome-based phylogenetic reconstructions with 119 amino acid sequences assigned the new taxa to the two distinct branches of the genus Aquirufa. Whole-genome average nucleotide identities were calculated with all possible pairs belonging to the genus. Values between 75.4% and 88.6% revealed that the two new strains represent each a new species. Like all, so far described members of the genus, they grew aerobically and chemoorganotrophically, were rod-shaped, red-pigmented, and motile by gliding, and showed genome sizes of about 3 Mbp and G + C values of about 40%. They could be distinguished by some phenotypic and chemotaxonomic features from their nearest related species. Until now, strain 9H-EGSE^T is the only one among the Aquirufa strains which contained traces of MK8 as respiratory quinone, and strain 15D-MOB^T is the only one that formed tiny orange globules in liquid medium. The genome of strain 9H-EGSE^T comprised genes for the complete light-harvesting rhodopsin / retinal system, in the case of 15D-MOB^T genes predicted for a nitrous oxide reductase were present. For the two new species of the genus Aquirufa, we propose to establish the names Aquirufa lenticrescens for strain 9H-EGSE^T (= JCM 34077 ^T = CIP 111926 ^T) and Aquirufa aurantiipilula for strain 15D-MOB^T (= JCM 34078 ^T = CIP 111925 ^T).

SUBMITTER: Pitt A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9163014 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature