Kummer C, Schumann P, Stackebrandt E
Hans-Knöll Institut für Naturstoff-Forschung e.V., Jena, Germany.
Int J Syst Bacteriol. 1999 Oct;49 Pt 4:1513-22. doi: 10.1099/00207713-49-4-1513.
Twelve bacterial strains isolated from tar-contaminated soil were subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic study. The strains possessed meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid of the peptidoglycan, MK-9(H2) as the predominant menaquinone, long-chain mycolic acids of the Gordonia-type, straight-chain saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids, and considerable amounts of tuberculostearic acid. The G + C content of the DNA was 68 mol%. Chemotaxonomic and physiological properties and 16S rDNA sequence comparison results indicated that these strains represent a new species of the genus Gordonia. Because of the ability of these strains to use alkanes as a carbon source, the name Gordonia alkanivorans is proposed. The type strain of Gordonia alkanivorans sp. nov. is strain HKI 0136T (= DSM 44369T).
对从焦油污染土壤中分离出的12株细菌进行了多相分类研究。这些菌株的肽聚糖诊断性二氨基酸为内消旋二氨基庚二酸，主要甲基萘醌为MK-9(H2)，具有戈登氏菌属类型的长链分枝菌酸、直链饱和与单不饱和脂肪酸，以及大量结核硬脂酸。DNA的G + C含量为68 mol%。化学分类和生理特性以及16S rDNA序列比较结果表明，这些菌株代表戈登氏菌属的一个新物种。由于这些菌株能够利用烷烃作为碳源，因此提出了“食烷戈登氏菌”这一名称。食烷戈登氏菌新种的模式菌株是HKI 0136T菌株(= DSM 44369T)。
