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A rod-shaped heliobacterium motile by peritrichous flagella, designated strain OS-H1, was isolated from a sample of shoreline soil of the soda lake Ostozhe (pH 9.2, total salt content 0.22%) located in the steppe of south-east Siberia. In the first few transfers, the isolate produced heat-resistant endospores. Like other heliobacteria, strain OS-H1 contained bacteriochlorophyll g and lacked intracytoplasmic membranes. The new isolate was a strict anaerobe and photoheterotroph. In the light and in the presence of organic compounds, strain OS-H1 oxidized sulfide to elemental sulfur and polysulfides, but was not capable of photoautotrophic growth. The isolate was an obligate alkaliphile able to grow at pH 8–10.2. The best growth was observed at pH 8.5–9.5, a temperature of 30 °C and at 5–10 g sodium carbonate l–1. Biotin was required as a growth factor. The G+C content of strain OS-H1 was 45.0 mol%. Comparison of the 16S rRNA gene sequence to that of phototrophic bacteria showed strain OS-H1 to group within gram-positive bacteria of the family Heliobacteriaceae with the closest relationship to Heliorestis daurensis (95.6% similarity). Based on physiological, genetic and chemotaxonomic characteristics, the new heliobacterium is described as a new species of the genus Heliorestis, Heliorestis baculata.
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Bryantseva, I., Gorlenko, V., Kompantseva, E. et al. Alkaliphilic heliobacterium Heliorestis baculata sp. nov. and emended description of the genus Heliorestis. Arch Microbiol 174, 283–291 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002030000204
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