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Two halophilic archaea, strains GX21T and R35T, were isolated from a marine solar saltern and an aquaculture farm in China, respectively. Cells of the two strains were observed to be pleomorphic, flat, to contain gas vesicles, stain Gram-negative and produce red-pigmented colonies. Strain GX21T was found to be able to grow at 25–50 °C (optimum 37 °C), at 2.6–4.8 M NaCl (optimum 3.4 M NaCl), at 0.05–1.0 M MgCl2 (optimum 0.1 M MgCl2) and at pH 6.0–8.5 (optimum pH 6.5) while strain R35T was found to be able to grow at 25–45 °C (optimum 37 °C), at 2.1–4.8 M NaCl (optimum 3.1 M NaCl), at 0–0.7 M MgCl2 (optimum 0.03 M MgCl2) and at pH 5.5–9.5 (optimum pH 6.5–7.0). The cells of both isolates were observed to lyse in distilled water. The minimum NaCl concentrations that prevented cell lysis were determined to be 15 % (w/v) for strain GX21T and 12 % (w/v) for strain R35T. The major polar lipids of the two strains were identified as phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol phosphate methyl ester, phosphatidylglycerol sulfate, one major glycolipid and a minor lipid chromatographically identical to sulfated mannosyl glucosyl diether and mannosyl glucosyl diether, respectively. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis revealed that strains GX21T and R35T show 97.1 % sequence similarity to each other and are closely related to Haloplanus aerogenes TBN37T (96.8 and 95.8 %), Haloplanus vescus RO5-8T (96.7 and 96.1 %), Haloplanus salinus YGH66T (96.4 and 95.8 %) and Haloplanus natans JCM 14081T (96.3 and 95.4 %). The rpoB′ gene similarity between strains GX21T and R35T is 90.5 % and show 88.5–90.8 % similarity to the Haloplanus species with validly published names. The DNA G+C content of strain GX21T and R35T were determined to be 65.8 and 66.0 mol%, respectively. The DNA–DNA hybridization values between strain GX21T and strain R35T, and the two strains with the Haloplanus species with validly published names, showed less than 50 % DNA–DNA relatedness. It was concluded that strain GX21T (=CGMCC 1.10456T = JCM 17092T) and strain R35T (=CGMCC 1.10594 T = JCM 17271T) represent two new species of Haloplanus, for which the names Haloplanus litoreus sp. nov. and Haloplanus ruber sp. nov. are proposed.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31370054), the grant from China Ocean Mineral Resources R & D Association (COMRA) Special Foundation (DY125-15-R-03), the Qinglan Project of Jiangsu Province and a project funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD).
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Han, D., Cui, HL. Haloplanus litoreus sp. nov. and Haloplanus ruber sp. nov., from a marine solar saltern and an aquaculture farm, respectively. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 105, 679–685 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-014-0123-6
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