Thermoflexus hugenholtzii gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, microaerophilic, filamentous bacterium representing a novel class in the Chloroflexi, Thermoflexia classis nov., and description of Thermoflexaceae fam. nov. and Thermoflexales ord. nov

Jeremy A. Dodsworth, Jonathan Gevorkian, Fairuz Despujos, Jessica K. Cole, Senthil K. Murugapiran, Hong Ming, Wen Jun Li, Gengxin Zhang, Alice Dohnalkova, Brian P. Hedlund

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Abstract

A thermophilic, filamentous, heterotrophic bacterium, designated strain JAD2T, a member of an as-yet uncultivated lineage that is present and sometimes abundant in some hot springs worldwide, was isolated from sediment of Great Boiling Spring in Nevada, USA. Cells had a mean diameter of 0.3 μm and length of 4.0 μm, and formed filaments that typically ranged in length from 20 to 200 μm. Filaments were negative for the Gram stain reaction, spores were not formed and motility was not observed. The optimum temperature for growth was 72.5-75 °C, with a range of 67.5-75 °C, and the optimum pH for growth was 6.75, with a range of pH 6.5-7.75. Peptone, tryptone or yeast extract were able to support growth when supplemented with vitamins, but no growth was observed using a variety of defined organic substrates. Strain JAD2T was microaerophilic and facultatively anaerobic, with optimal growth at 1% (v/v) O2 and an upper limit of 8% O2. The major cellular fatty acids (>5%) were C16:0, C19:0, C18:0, C20:0 and C19:1. The genomic DNA G+C content was 69.3 mol%. Phylogenetic and phylogenomic analyses using sequences of the 16S rRNA gene and other conserved genes placed JAD2Twithin the phylum Chloroflexi, but not within any existing class in this phylum. These results indicate that strain JAD2T is the first cultivated representative of a novel lineage within the phylum Chloroflexi, for which we propose the name Thermoflexus hugenholtzii gen. nov., sp. nov., within Thermoflexia classis nov., Thermoflexales ord. nov. and Thermoflexaceae fam. nov. The type strain of Thermoflexus hugenholtzii is JAD2T (= JCM 19131T = CCTCC AB-2014030T).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number055855
Pages (from-to)2119-2127
Number of pages9
JournalInternational Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
Volume64
Issue numberPART 6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2014

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