Planococcus antarcticus and Planococcus psychrophilus spp. nov. isolated from cyanobacterial mat samples collected from ponds in Antarctica

Extremophiles

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 253-261

  Reddy, G S N ^a   Prakash, J S S ^a   Vairamani, M ^b   Prabhakar, S ^b   Matsumoto, G I ^c   Shivaji, S ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c OTSUMA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Cyanobacterial mat; Halotolerant; Orange pigment; Planococcus; Psychrophile

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; PLANOCOCCUS (BACTERIUM); PLANOCOCCUS ALKANOCLASTICUS; PLANOCOCCUS ANTARCTICUS; PLANOCOCCUS PSYCHROPHILUS;

PRIMER DNA; RNA 16S;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA PRIMERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0036597922     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-001-0250-7     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Chauhan S, Shivaji S (1994) Growth and pigmentation in Sphingobacterium antarcticus, a psychrotrophic bacterium from Antarctica. Polar Biol 14:31-36
2. Claus D, Fritze D, Kocur M (1992) Genera related to the genus Bacillus - Sporolactobacillus, Sporosarcina, Planococcus, Filibacter and Caryophanon. In Balows A., Truper HG, Dworkin M, Harder W, Schleifer K-H (eds) The prokaryotes 2nd edn, Fischer, New York, pp 1769-1791
3. Collins MD, Pirouz T, Goodfellow M, Minnikin DE (1977) Distribution of menaquinones in actinomycetes and corynebacteria. J Gen Microbiol 100:221-230
4. Dumphy PJ, Phillips PG, Brodie AF (1971) Separation and identification of menaquinones from microorganisms. J Lipid Res 12:442-449
5. Engelhardt MA, Daly K, Swannell RP, Head IM (2001) Isolation and characterization of a novel hydrocarbon-degrading, Gram-positive bacterium, isolated from intertidal beach sediment and description of Planococcus alkanoclasticus sp. nov. J Appl Microbiol 90:237-247
6. Felsenstein J (1993) PHYLIP (Phylogeny Inference Package) Version 3.5c. Department of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle
7. Holding AJ, Collee JG (1971) Routine biochemical tests. Methods Microbiol 6A:2-32
8. Huggins DG, Bleasby AT, Fuchs R (1992) Clustal V: improved software for multiple sequence alignment. CABIOS 8:189-191
9. Hugh R, Leifson E (1953) The taxonomic significance of fermentative versus oxidative metabolism of carbohydrates by various Gram-negative bacteria. J Bacteriol 66:24-26
10. Jagannadham MV, Jayathirtha Rao V, Shivaji S (1991) The major carotenoid pigment of a psychrotrophic Micrococcus roseus: purification, structure and interaction of the pigment with synthetic membranes. J Bacteriol 173: 7911-7917
11. Jagannadham MV, Chattopadhyay MK, Subbalakshmi C, Vairamani M, Narayanan K, Mohan Rao Ch, Shivaji S (2000) Carotenoids of an Antarctic psychrotolerant bacterium Sphingobacterium antarcticus and a mesophilic bacterium Sphingobacterium multivorum. Arch Microbiol 173:418-424
12. Junge K, Gosink JJ, Hoppe, H-G, Staley JT (1998) Arthrobacter, Brachybacterium and Planococcus isolates identified from Antarctic sea ice brine. Description of Planococcus mcmeekinii sp. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 21:306-314
13. Kimura M (1980) A simple method for estimating evolutionary rates of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences. J Mol Evol 16:111-120
14. AL. In: Sneath PHA, Mair MS, Sharpe ME, Holt JG (eds) Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, vol. 2. Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, pp 1011-1013
15. Lane DJ (1991) 16S/23S rRNA sequencing. In: Stackebrandt E, Goodfellow M, Goodfellow M (eds), Nucleic acid techniques in bacterial systematics. Wiley, New York, pp 115-147
16. Matsumoto GI (1993) Geochemical features of the McMurdo Dry Valley lakes, Antarctica. Physical and biogeochemical processes in Antarctic lakes. Antarct Res Ser 49:95-118
17. Matsumoto GI, Ohtani S, Hiroto K (1993) Biogeochemical features of hydrocarbons in cyanobacterial mats from the McMurdo Dry Valley, Antarctica. Proc NIPR Symp Polar Biol 6:98-105
18. Minnikin DE, Alshamaony L, Goodfellow M (1975) Differentiation of Mycobacterium, Nocardia and related taxa by thin-layer chromatographic analysis of whole-organism methanolysates. J Gen Microbiol 88:200-204
19. Nakagawa Y, Sakane T, Yokota A (1996) Emendation of the genus Planococcus and transfer of Flavobacterium okeanokoites zobell and upham 1944 to the genus Planococcus as Planococcus okeanokoites comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 46:866-870
20. Parker BC, Wharton RA Jr (1985) Physiological ecology of bluegreen algal mats (modern stromatolites) in Antarctic oasis lakes. Arch Hydrobiol 71:331-348
21. Reddy GSN, Aggarwal RK, Matsumoto GI, Shivaji S (2000) Arthrobacter flavus sp. nov., a psychrophilic bacterium isolated from a pond in McMurdo Dry Valley, Antarctica. Int J Syst Env Microbiol 50:1553-1561
22. Rosenthal RS, Dziarski R (1994) Isolation of peptidoglycan and soluble peptidoglycan fragment. Methods Enzymol 235:253-285
23. Sato NS, Murata N (1988) Membrane lipids. In: Packerl L, Glazer AN (eds) Methods in enzymology, vol. 167. Academic, New York, pp 251-259
24. Schleifer KH, Kandler O (1972) Peptidoglycan types of bacterial cell walls and their taxonomic implications. Bacteriol Rev 36:407-477
25. Shivaji S, Rao NS, Saisree L, Sheth V, Reddy GSN, Bhargava PM (1988) Isolation and identification of Micrococcus roseus and Planococcus sp. from Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica. J Biosci 113:409-414
26. Shivaji S, Rao NS, Saisree L, Reddy GSN, Seshu Kumar G, Bhargava PM (1989a) Isolates of Arthrobacter from the soils of Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica. Polar Biol 10:225-229
27. Shivaji S, Rao NS, Saisree L, Sheth V, Reddy GSN, Bhargava PM (1989b) Isolation and identification of Pseudomonas sp. from Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica. Appl Environ Microbiol 55:767-770
28. Shivaji S, Ray MK, Seshu Kumar G, Reddy GSN, Saisree L, Wynn Williams DD (1991) Identification of Janthinobacterium lividum from the soils of the islands of Scotia Ridge and from Antarctic peninsula. Polar Biol 11:267-272
29. Shivaji S, Ray MK, Saisree L, Jagannadham MV, Seshu Kumar G, Reddy GSN, Bhargava PM (1992) Sphingobacterium antarcticus sp. nov. a psychrotrophic bacterium from the soils of Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica. Int J Syst Bacteriol 42:102-116
30. Shivaji S, Vijaya Bhanu N, Aggaarwal RK (2000) identification of Yersinia pestis as the causative organism of Plague in India as determined by 16S rDNA sequencing and RAPD-based genomic fingerprinting. FEMS Microbiol Lett 189:247-252
31. Stackebrandt E, Goebel BM (1994) Taxonomic note: a place for DNA-DNA reassociation and 16S rRNA sequence analysis in the present species definition in bacteriology. Int. J Syst Bacteriol 44:846-849
32. Stanier RY, Palleroni NJ, Doudroff M (1966) The aerobic Pseudomonas a taxonomic study. J Gen Microbiol 43:159-271
33. Stolp H, Gadkari D (1981) Nonpathogenic members of the genus Pseudomonas, In: Starr MP, Truper HG, Balows A, Schlegel HG (eds) The prokaryotes, vol. 1. Springer, Berlin, pp 719-741
34. Tourova TP, Antonov AS (1987) Identification of microorganisms by rapid DNA-DNA hybridisation. In: Colwell RR, Grigorova R (eds) Methods in microbiology, vol. 19. Academic, New York, pp 333-355
35. Vincent WF, Castenholtz RW, Downes MT, Howard-Williams C (1993) Antarctic cyanobacteria: light, nutrients and photosynthesis in the microbial mat environment. J Physiol 29:745-755
36. Woese CR, Gutell R, Gupta R, Noller HF (1983) Detailed analysis of the higher order structure of 16S-like ribosomal ribonucleic acids. Microbiol Rev 47:621-669