Skermanella stibiiresistens sp. nov., a highly antimony-resistant bacterium isolated from coal-mining soil, and emended description of the genus Skermanella

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A Gram-negative, aerobic, motile, rod-shaped, antimony-resistant bacterium, designated strain SB22T, was isolated from soil of Jixi coal mine, China. The major cellular fatty acids (>5 %) were C18 : 1ω7c (63.5 %), summed feature 2 (C14 : 0 3-OH and/or iso-C16 : 1 I, 10.8 %) and C16 : 0 (9.9 %). The major polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol and an unknown aminolipid. The genomic DNA G+C content was 69.6 mol% and Q-10 was the major respiratory quinone. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strain SB22T was most closely related to Skermanella aerolata 5416T-32T (97.3 %), Skermanella parooensis ACM 2042T (95.8 %) and Skermanella xinjiangensis 10-1-101T (92.9 %). The DNA–DNA hybridization value between strain SB22T and S. aerolata KACC 11604T ( = 5416T-32T) was 43.3 %. On the basis of phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic characteristics of strain SB22T and related species, it is considered that the isolate represents a novel species of the genus Skermanella , for which the name Skermanella stibiiresistens sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is SB22T ( = CGMCC 1.10751T = KCTC 23364T). An emended description of the genus Skermanella is provided.
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  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (31010103903)

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