| Title | Phenotypic and genomic characteristics of Brevibacterium zhoupengii sp. nov., a novel halotolerant actinomycete isolated from bat feces |
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| Author | Yuyuan Huang1, Lingzhi Dong1,2, Jian Gong1,2, Jing Yang1,2,3, Shan Lu1,2,3, Xin-He Lai4, Dong Jin1,2,3, Qianni Huang1,5, Ji Pu1, Liyun Liu1, and Jianguo Xu1,2,3* |
| Address | 1State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, P. R. China, 2Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province 030001, P. R. China, 3Research Units of Discovery of Unknown Bacteria and Function, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 102206, P. R. China, 4Henan Key Laboratory of Biomolecular Recognition and Sensing, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan Joint International Research Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Early Diagnosis of Major Diseases, Shangqiu Normal University, Shangqiu 476000, P. R. China, 5Guangxi Key Laboratory of AIDS Prevention and Treatment & Guangxi Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomedicine, School of Public Health, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, Guangxi, P. R. China |
| Bibliography | Journal of Microbiology, 60(10),977-985, 2022, |
| DOI | 10.1007/s12275-022-2134-8 |
| Key Words | Brevibacterium zhoupengii, bat, carotenoid, Mrp gene, halotolerant |
| Abstract | Two strictly aerobic, Gram-staining-positive, non-spore-forming, regular rod-shaped (approximately 0.7 × 1.9 mm) bacteria (HY170T and HY001) were isolated from bat feces collected from Chongzuo city, Guangxi province (22°2054N, 106°4920E, July 2011) and Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province (25°0910N, 102°0439E, October 2013) of South China, respectively. Optimal growth is obtained at 25–28°C (range, 4–32°C) on BHI-5% sheep blood plate with pH 7.5 (range, 5.0–10.0) in the presence of 0.5– 1.0% NaCl (w/v) (range, 0–15% NaCl [w/v]). The phylogenetic and phylogenomic trees based respectively on the 16S rRNA gene and 845 core gene sequences revealed that the two strains formed a distinct lineage within the genus Brevibacterium, most closely related to B. aurantiacum NCDO 739T (16S rRNA similarity, both 98.5%; dDDH, 46.7–46.8%; ANI, 91.9–92.1%). Strain HY170T contained MK-8(H2), diphosphatidylglycerol (DPG) and phosphatidylglycerol (PG), galactose and ribose as the predominant menaquinone, major polar lipids, and main sugars in the cell wall teichoic acids, respectively. The meso-diaminopimelic acid (meso-DAP) was the diagnostic diamino acid of the peptidoglycan found in strain HY170T. Anteiso-C15:0 and anteiso-C17:0 were the major fatty acids (> 10%) of strains HY170T and HY001, with anteiso-C17:1A predominant in strain HY170T but absent in strain HY001. Mining the genomes revealed the presence of secondary metabolite biosynthesis gene clusters encoding for non-alpha poly-amino acids (NAPAA), ectoine, siderophore, and terpene. Based on results from the phylogenetic, chemotaxonomic and phenotypic analyses, the two strains could be classified as a novel species of the genus Brevibacterium, for which the name Brevibacterium zhoupengii sp. nov. is proposed (type strain HY170T = CGMCC 1.18600T = JCM 34230T). |