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Altererythrobacter estronivorus sp. nov., an Estrogen-Degrading Strain Isolated from Yundang Lagoon of Xiamen City in China

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A novel gram-negative, non-spore-forming, mobile, estrogen-degrading strain, MH-B5T, was isolated from Yundang Lagoon in Xiamen city of China. Growth of this strain occurred between 4 and 40 °C (optimum at 35 °C), pH 5.5–10.0 (7.5), 0.0–7 % NaCl (1–2 %). Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequence showed that strain MH-B5T belonged to the genus Altererythrobacter family Erythrobacteraceae, showing the highest sequence similarity (96.6 %) to Altererythrobacter xinjiangensis S3-63T. The dominant cellular fatty acid was C18:1 ω7c and/or C18:1 ω6c (57.98 %). The major respiratory quinone was ubiquinone 10, and major polar lipids were phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, sphingoglycolipid, phospholipid, and phosphatidylcholine. Strain MH-B5T did not contain bacteriochlorophyll a. The draft genome sequence of strain MH-B5T comprised about 3.67 Mb, with an average G+C content of 60 mol%. On the basis of data from its morphology, chemotaxonomy, 16S rRNA gene sequence and genome sequence, strain MH-B5T represents a novel species, for which the name Altererythrobacter estronivorus sp. nov., is proposed. The type strain is MH-B5T (=CCTCC AB2012025T=DSM 25986T).

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Fujian Province Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists (2013J06012), Hundred Talents Program of Fujian Province, China, National Natural Science Foundation of China (31370503), Science and Technology Planning Project of Xiamen, China (3502Z20142021), and the Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (MMLKF13-11).

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    Dan Qin, Cong Ma, Anyi Hu, Fangfang Zhang & Chang-Ping Yu

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The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain MH-B5T is JQ723700. The draft genome sequence of strain MH-B5T has been deposited under accession number JRQQ00000000.

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Qin, D., Ma, C., Hu, A. et al. Altererythrobacter estronivorus sp. nov., an Estrogen-Degrading Strain Isolated from Yundang Lagoon of Xiamen City in China. Curr Microbiol 72, 634–640 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-016-0995-y

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