Halomonas citrativorans sp. nov., Halomonas casei sp. nov. and Halomonas colorata sp. nov., isolated from French cheese rinds

Caroline Isabel Kothe*, Christophe Monnet, Françoise Irlinger, Mathieu Virsolvy, Anja Frühling, Meina Neumannschaal, Jacqueline Wolf, Pierre Renault*

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Abstract

Eight Gram-stain-negative bacterial strains were isolated from cheese rinds sampled in France. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, all isolates were assigned to the genus Halomonas. Phylogenetic investigations, including 16S rRNA gene studies, multilocus sequence analysis, reconstruction of a pan-genome phylogenetic tree with the concatenated core-genome content and average nucleotide identity (ANI) calculations, revealed that they constituted three novel and well-supported clusters. The closest relative species, determined using the whole-genome sequences of the strains, were Halomonas zhanjiangensis for two groups of cheese strains, sharing 82.4 and 93.1 % ANI, and another cluster sharing 92.2 % ANI with the Halomonas profundi type strain. The strains isolated herein differed from the previously described species by ANI values <95 % and several biochemical, enzymatic and colony characteristics. The results of phenotypic, phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic analyses indicated that the isolates belonged to three novel Halomonas species, for which the names Halomonas citrativorans sp. nov., Halomonas casei sp. nov. and Halomonas colorata sp. nov. are proposed, with isolates FME63T (=DSM 113315T=CIRM-BIA2430T=CIP 111880T=LMG 32013T), FME64T (=DSM 113316T=CIRM-BIA2431T=CIP 111877T=LMG 32015T) and FME66T (=DSM 113318T=CIRM-BIA2433T=CIP 111876T=LMG 32014T) as type strains, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Article number006234
JournalInternational Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
Volume74
Issue number1
ISSN1466-5026
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

Keywords

  • Food
  • Genotypes
  • Phenotypes
  • Taxonomy
  • Whole-genome sequencing

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