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Ciceribacter ferrooxidans sp. nov., a nitrate-reducing Fe(II)-oxidizing bacterium isolated from ferrous ion-rich sediment

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A nitrate-reducing Fe(II)-oxidizing bacterial strain, F8825T, was isolated from the Fe(II)-rich sediment of an urban creek in Pearl River Delta, China. The strain was Gram-negative, facultative chemolithotrophic, facultative anaerobic, non-spore-forming, and rod-shaped with a single flagellum. Phy-logenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing indicated that it belongs to the genus Ciceribacter and is most closely related to C. lividus MSSRFBL1T (99.4%), followed by C. thiooxidans F43bT (98.8%) and C. azotifigens A.slu09T (98.0%). Fatty acid, polar lipid, respiratory quinone, and DNA G + C content analyses supported its classification in the genus Ciceribacter. Multilocus sequence analysis of concatenated 16S rRNA, atpD, glnII, gyrB, recA, and thrC suggested that the isolate was a novel species. DNA-DNA hybridization and genome sequence comparisons (90.88 and 89.86%, for values of ANIm and ANIb between strains F8825T with MSSRFBL1T, respectively) confirmed that strain F8825T was a novel species, different from C. lividus MSSRFBL1T, C. thiooxidans F43bT, and C. azotifigens A.slu09T. The physiological and biochemical properties of the strain, such as carbon source utilization, nitrate reduction, and ferrous ion oxidation, further supported that this is a novel species. Based on the polyphasic taxonomic results, strain F8825T was identified as a novel species in the genus Ciceribacter, for which the name Ciceribacter ferrooxidans sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is F8825T (= CCTCC AB 2018196T = KCTC 62948T).

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Acknowledgments

We thank Korean Agricultural Culture Collection (KACC) for providing free strain C. azotifigens A.slu09T. This work was funded by the National Key R & D Program of China (2018YFD0500202), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (91851202, 51678163, 21677042), GDAS’ Special Project of Science and Technology Development (2019-GDASYL-0104005), Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (2018B0303110010), Science and Technology Project of Guangzhou (201707020021), Guangdong Technological Innovation Strategy of Special Funds (Key Areas of Research and Development Program, 2018B020205003) and Guangdong MEPP Fund (GDOE2019A34).

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  1. South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, P. R. China

    Tongchu Deng & Jun Guo

  2. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510070, P. R. China

    Tongchu Deng, Youfen Qian, Xingjuan Chen, Xunan Yang, Jun Guo, Guoping Sun & Meiying Xu

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    Tongchu Deng, Youfen Qian, Xingjuan Chen, Xunan Yang, Jun Guo, Guoping Sun & Meiying Xu

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    Tongchu Deng & Jun Guo

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Deng, T., Qian, Y., Chen, X. et al. Ciceribacter ferrooxidans sp. nov., a nitrate-reducing Fe(II)-oxidizing bacterium isolated from ferrous ion-rich sediment. J Microbiol. 58, 350–356 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-020-9471-2

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