Halomonas Maris Sp. Nov., a Moderately Halophilic Bacterium Isolated From Marine Sediment in the Southwest Indian Ocean

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Halomonas Maris Sp. Nov., a Moderately Halophilic Bacterium Isolated From Marine Sediment in the Southwest Indian Ocean

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A halophilic, Gram-staining-negative, rod-shaped, flagellated and motile bacterium, strain QX-1^T, was isolated from deep-sea sediment at a depth of 3332 m in the southwestern Indian Ocean. Strain QX-1^T growth was observed at 4–50 °C (optimum 37 °C), pH 5.0–11.0 (optimum pH 7.0), 3%–25% NaCl (w/v; optimum 7%), and it did not grow without NaCl. A phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene placed strain QX-1^Tin the genus Halomonas and most closely related to Halomonas sulfidaeris (97.90%), Halomonas zhaodongensis (97.80%), Halomonas songnenensis (97.59%), Halomonas hydrothermalis (97.37%), Halomonas subterranea (97.25%), Halomonas salicampi (97.09%), and Halomonas arcis (97.01%). DNA–DNA hybridization (< 26.50%) and average nucleotide identity values (< 83.54%) between strain QX-1^T and the related type strains meet the accepted criteria for a new species. The principal fatty acids (> 10%) of strain QX-1^T are C_16:0 (25.50%), C_17:0 cyclo (14.02%), C_19:0 cyclo ω8c (18.72%), and summed feature 8 (C_18:1 ω7c and/or C_18:1 ω6c, 18.08%). The polar lipids of strain QX-1^T are mainly diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, unidentified phospholipid, unidentified aminophospholipid, and five unidentified lipids. The main respiratory quinone is Q-9. The G+C content of its chromosomal DNA is 54.4 mol%. Its fatty acid profile, respiratory quinones, and G+C content also support the placement of QX-1^T in the genus Halomonas. These phylogenetic, phenotypic, and chemotaxonomic analyses indicate that QX-1^T is a novel species, for which the name Halomonas maris is proposed. The type strain is QX-1^T (=MCCC 1A17875^T = KCTC 82198^T = NBRC 114670^T).

General Microbiology

Halomonas maris sp. nov.

Novel species

Genomic analysis

Salt tolerance

In recent years, extensive studies of high-salinity environments in different geographic locations have led to the isolation and characterization of a large number of halophilic microbial species. The family Halomonadaceae belongs to the Gammaproteobacteria (Arahal et al. 2002; Jiang et al. 2014b), and contains 14 genera: Aidingimonas, Carnimonas, Chromohalobacter, Cobetia, Halomonas, Halotalea, Halovibrio,Kushneria, Larsenimonas, Modicisalibacter, Pistricoccus, Salinicola, Terasakiispira, and Zymobacter. The genus Halomonas is one of 14 genera occurring in the family Halomonadaceae, and was originally described by Vreeland et al. in 1980 (Vreeland et al. 1980). At the time of writing, 109 species of Halomonas have been reported (https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/halomonas), including the newly described H. urmiana (Khan et al. 2020), H. piezotolerans (Yan et al. 2020), and H. lactosivorans (Ming et al. 2020).

Halomonas is described as containing halophilic or salt-tolerant Gram-staining-negative bacilli. Most species of Halomonas have been isolated from salt lakes, marine environments, or saline soils (Guan et al. 2010; Ming et al. 2020; Poli et al. 2013). Halomonas has a unique structure and special physiological mechanisms, and has high research and utilization value. Some scholars have studied Halomonas strains isolated from marine sediments, finding that Halomonas is strongly adapted to the extreme environment of the deep sea. This is mainly reflected in its tolerance of heavy metal stress and its strong adaptability to changes in temperature, salinity, pressure, and oxygen concentration.

In this study, we report the characterization of a novel bacterium of the genus Halomonas that was isolated from deep-sea sediment in the southwestern Indian Ocean.

Isolation and Culture

Strain QX-1^T was isolated from deep-sea sediment at a depth of 3332 m in the southwestern Indian Ocean (China Ocean 40 voyages, leg III, 55.15°W, 34.32°S, TV grab sampling). To isolate this strain, we added the sediment to marine broth (MB; BD Difco) containing 10% NaCl (w/v). After 7 days in shaking culture at 10 °C, the culture was serially 10-fold diluted (10⁻¹, 10⁻², 10⁻³, 10⁻⁴, 10⁻⁵), and the diluted cultures were plated onto marine agar (MA; BD Difco) containing 10% NaCl (w/v) and placed at 10 °C. After culture for about 30 days, a large number of colonies were observed, and single colonies were picked and streaked repeatedly to obtain pure cultures. The pure bacterial liquid cultures were stored in 15% glycerol solution at −80 °C.

Morphological, Physiological, and Biochemical Analyses

A Gram-staining kit (Hangzhou Tianhe Microbial Reagent Co., Ltd) was used to test the bacterium, according to the manufacturer’s instructions. The morphology of the cells was observed with a transmission electron microscope (JEM-1230, JEOL) (Fig. S1, available in the online Supplementary Material). Cell movement was observed with the hanging drop method (Skerman 1960).

The temperature range of QX-1^T growth was determined in MB by incubating cultures at 0, 4, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 37, 45, 50, 55, and 60 °C. The pH range for growth was determined in MB at pHs 3.0–12.0 in intervals of 1 pH unit, established with citric acid/phosphate (pH 3.0–7.0), Tris/HCl (pH 8.0–9.0), or sodium carbonate/sodium bicarbonate buffers (pH 10.0–12.0). The formula of MB was adjusted so that the salinity of the medium was 0, 0.5%, 1%, 2%, 3%, 4%, 5%, 6%, 7%, 8%, 9%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, or 30% (w/v), and was used to determine the salinity growth range of QX-1^T.

To investigate whether strain QX-1^T can grow under anaerobic conditions, we created an anaerobic environment by placing 10 ml of MB medium into a 60 ml anaerobic flask and adding 10 mg/l azurol solution in the ratio of 1000:1 as the oxygen indicator. The pH was adjusted to 7.2 at room temperature. The anaerobic bottle was pumped with N₂ gas to remove the oxygen in the bottle. During this process, 4 ml 0.5 M Na₂S.9H₂O was added to the bottle, and the solution turned weakly red. After the end of ventilation, the anaerobic bottle was immediately sealed with an anaerobic bottle stopper and an aluminum cap, and then sterilized with high-pressure steam. Sterile l-cysteine hydrochloride solution (20 g/l; Hopebiol, China) was added to the sterilized anaerobic MB medium in a ratio of 1%, and the solution turned colorless, indicating that the oxygen in the bottle had been exhausted. The medium was inoculated with strain QX-1^T in the ratio of 1:100, and incubated at 37 °C.

API ZYM, API 20NE, API 20E, and API 50CH reagent strips (BioMérieux) and a Gen III MicroPlate (Biolog Inc.) were used to detect the enzyme production, hydrolysis, and substrate utilization of the strain, respectively, according to the manufacturers’ instructions, with the single modification of adjusting the NaCl concentration to 3.0% for all tests. Seven related type strains were tested at the same time. In the Gen III MicroPlate experiment, IF-A, Gen III Inoculating Fluid was used for the matching test. The turbidity meter was calibrated with the standard turbid tube (85% turbidity), and the IF-A inoculum was initially adjusted to 100% turbidity. Fresh strain QX-1^T was scraped from the MA plate, IF-A inoculum was added to form a bacterial suspension, well-mixed, and the optical density was controlled at 95% turbidity. The prepared bacterial suspension (100 μl) was added to each well of the Gen III plate, which was placed at 37 °C.

To observe the hydrolysis of starch, cellulose, and Tween 20, 40, 60, and 80 by strain QX-1^T, 0.2% (w/v) soluble starch, 0.8% (w/v) cellulose, or 0.5% (v/v) Tween 20, 40, 60, or 80 was added to MA, respectively (Dong and Cai 2001). Oxidase activity was determined with tetramethyl p-phenylenediamine. If the reaction turned purple immediately, it was oxidase positive; otherwise, it was negative. Catalase activity was determined by adding 3% H₂O₂ to the colony. If a large number of bubbles were generated immediately, the colony was positive for catalase activity; if a small number of bubbles was generated within 1 min, it was weakly positive; if no bubbles were generated, it was catalase negative.

Molecular Analysis

A bacterial genome extraction kit (SBS) was used according to the manufacturer’s instructions to extract the genomic DNA of QX-1^T. The 16S rRNA gene was amplified with the universal bacterial primers 27F (5¢-AGAGTTTGATCCTGGCTCAG-3¢) and 1492R (5¢-TACGGTTACCTTGTTACGACTT-3¢) (Lane 1991) and Ex Taq DNA Polymerase in a 50 μl amplification system (Sangon Biotech, China).

The draft genome of QX-1^T was determined by Shanghai Majorbio Bio-Pharm Technology Co., Ltd (Shanghai, China), using the Illumina paired-end (500 bp library) sequencing technique. The clean data were assembled with SPAdes v 3.8.1 with the default settings (Bankevich et al. 2012). Contigs longer than 1 kb and with similar read coverage were retained for further analysis. The G+C content of the chromosomal DNA of strain QX-1^T was determined from the draft genomic sequence. The RAST website (https://rast.nmpdr.org/) was used to annotate the genomic data of strain QX-1^T.

The 16S rRNA and gyrB and rpoD gene sequences were extracted from the draft genomic data of strain QX-1^T. We used the EzBioCloud program (https://www.ezbiocloud.net) to compare the 16S rRNA gene sequences (Kim et al. 2012; Maidak et al. 2000) and analyzed the gyrB and rpoD gene sequences in the GenBank database with BLAST.

A phylogenetic analysis was performed with MEGA version X (Kumar et al. 2016). The distance option was used according to the Kimura two-parameter model, and the neighbor-joining (NJ) (Saitou and Nei 1987), maximum-likelihood (ML) (Felsenstein 1981), and minimum evolution (ME) clustering methods were applied (Rzhetsky and Nei 1992). Bootstrap values were calculated based on 1000 replications. The sequences of related taxa were obtained from the GenBank database and EzBioCloud (Yoon et al. 2017).

DNA–DNA hybridization (DDH) and average nucleotide identity (ANI) are considered the gold standard techniques for the delineation of bacterial species (Chun et al. 2018). To compare strain QX-1^T with other strains, we calculated DDH using the web-based Genome-to-Genome Calculator (GGDC 2.1) (http//ggdc.dsmz.de/ggdc.php) (Oguntoyinbo et al. 2018), and used the EZGenome website to calculate the ANI between two genomes (Goris et al. 2007).

Chemotaxonomic Characterization

The fatty acids of QX-1^Twere extracted with the standard Sherlock™ Microbial Identification System, version 6.0B (MIDI). Strain QX-1^Tand related type strains were cultured on MA at 37 °C for 48 h, and the fatty acids were saponified, methylated, and extracted from the whole cells. The fatty acids were analyzed with gas chromatography (Agilent Technologies 6850) and identified with the TSBA6.0 database of the Microbial Identification System (Sasser 1990).

The polar lipids of strain QX-1^T were extracted with the chloroform–methanol system and analyzed with one-dimensional and two-dimensional thin layer chromatography (TLC) on a Merck silica gel 60 F254 aluminum-backed thin layer plate (Kates 1986). The two-dimensional development of the dot sample plate was performed with chloroform–methanol–water in a volumetric ratio of 65:25:4 as the first solvent and chloroform–methanol–acetic acid–water in a volumetric ratio of 85:12:15:4 as the second solvent. The total lipid substances were then detected with molybdenum phosphoric acid, and the specific functional groups were detected with spray reagents for specific functional groups.

Quinones were extracted with silica gel TLC, divided into different categories, and analyzed with HPLC (Tindall 1990a; Tindall 1990b).

Strain QX-1^T is a Gram-staining-negative, rod-shaped (0.7–1 μm in width and 1.8–3 μm in length), motile bacterium. The results of anaerobic culture showed that strain QX-1^T did not grow in anaerobic culture after 15 days. Strain QX-1^T growth was observed at 4–50 °C (optimum 37 °C), pH 5.0–11.0 (optimum pH 7.0), and 3%–25% NaCl (optimum 7%). Strain QX-1^Tgrew best in 7% NaCl (w/v) and tolerated up to 25% (w/v) NaCl. It did not grow without NaCl, so it can be considered a moderately halophilic bacterium (Ventosa et al. 1998).

Biochemical analyses showed that strain QX-1^T produces catalase and oxidase, but does not hydrolyze Tween 20, 40, 60, or 80, starch, or cellulase. It uses d-trehalose, sucrose, d-mannose and other compounds as carbon sources. The phenotypic differences between strain QX-1^T and related type strains are shown in Table 1. The complete biochemical characteristics of strain QX-1^T are given in the species description.

Strain QX-1^T shared highest sequence similarity with H. sulfidaeris (97.90%), H. zhaodongensis (97.80%), H. songnenensis (97.59%), H. hydrothermalis (97.37%), H. subterranean (97.25%), H. salicampi (97.09%), and H. arcis (97.01%). The related type strains H. sulfidaeris ATCC BAA-803^T, H. songnenensis CGMCC 1.12152^T, H. hydrothermalis CGMCC 1.6325^T, H. subterranea CGMCC 1.6495^T, and H. arcis CGMCC 1.6494^T were obtained from the China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center. Halomonas zhaodongensis DSM 25869^T was obtained from the German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures. H. salicampi NBRC 109914^T was obtained from the Biological Resource Center, NITE.

In determining the QX-1^T genome sequence, 1 Gbp of clean data was generated, achieving a ~200-fold depth of coverage, with the Illumina HiSeq 2000 platform. The genome size of strain QX-1^T is 4.52 Mb, and included 82 contigs. The N50 value of the genomic sequence of QX-1^T was 179332, and the L50 value was 10. The accession number for strain QX-1^T is JABWCV000000000 at DDBJ/ENA/GenBank. We also submitted the genomic sequences of H. zhaodongensis and H. salicampi, determined in this study, under accession numbers JACCDD000000000 and JACCDF000000000, respectively. The genomic sequences of H. sulfidaeris ATCC BAA-803^T, H. songnenensis NEAU-ST10-39^T, H. hydrothermalis Slthf2^T, H. subterranea CGMCC 1.6495^T, and H. arcis CGMCC 1.6494^T were from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (accession numbers AP019514, PVTK00000000, AP022843, FOGS00000000, and FNII00000000, respectively). The G+C content of the genomic DNA of strain QX-1^T is 54.4 mol%, which is consistent with the range described for the genus Halomonas, 52–74.3 mol% (Franzmann et al. 1988; Martinez-Canovas et al. 2004).

The almost full-length 16S rRNA (1451 nt) and the gyrB (2421 nt) and rpoD (1851 nt) gene sequences were obtained from the draft genome of strain QX-1^T. Sequence alignment showed that there was only difference in sequencing coverage between the 16S rRNA sequences isolated from the genome and those determined by PCR.

On a phylogenetic tree constructed with the NJ method, strain QX-1^T formed a clade with H. sulfidaeris ATCC BAA-803^T (Fig. S1). The maximum-likelihood and minimum-evolution trees of the 16S rRNA gene sequences presented similar topologies to that of the NJ tree, so they were condensed into the NJ tree. Phylogenetic trees were also constructed from the gyrB and rpoD genes (Fig. S3 and S4), and the 16S rRNA, gyrB, and rpoD genes all indicated that the novel strain QX-1^T is closely related to members of the genus Halomonas.

The DDH estimates (GGDC) for QX-1^T were 26.50% with H. sulfidaeris ATCC BAA-803^T, 19.40% with H. zhaodongensis DSM 25869^T, 19.80% with H. songnenensis CGMCC 1.12152^T, 20.90% with H. hydrothermalis CGMCC 1.6325^T, 20.60% with H. subterranea CGMCC 1.6495^T, 20.00% with H. salicampi NBRC 109914^T, and 20.20% with H. arcis CGMCC 1.6494^T (Table S2). These DDH values were significantly lower than the recommended value of 70% that is considered to define a new species (Wayne et al. 1987). The ANI values for QX-1^T were 83.54% with H. sulfidaeris ATCC BAA-803^T, 75.54% with H. zhaodongensis DSM 25869^T, 76.32% with H. songnenensis CGMCC 1.12152^T, 76.47% with H. hydrothermalis CGMCC 1.6325^T, 76.68% with H. subterranea CGMCC 1.6495^T, 74.94% with H. salicampi NBRC 109914^T, and 76.40% with H. arcis CGMCC 1.6494^T (Table S3), all of which met the standard ANI criterion for novel species identity (< 95%–96%) (Richter and Rossello-Mora 2009). These results indicate that QX-1^Tis affiliated with the genus Halomonas and may represent a new species.

The principal fatty acids (> 10%) of strain QX-1^T are C_16:0 (25.50%), C_17:0 cyclo (14.02%), C_19:0 cyclo ω8c (18.72%), and summed feature 8 (C_18:1ω7c and/or C_18:1ω6c, 18.08%). Thus, its principal fatty acids meet the description of Halomonas (Arahal et al. 2007), but the percentages of C_17:0 cyclo and C_19:0 cyclo ω8c differ from those of the related type strains. The whole-cell fatty acids are shown in Table S1. The polar lipids of strain QX-1^T are mainly diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, unidentified phospholipid, unidentified aminophospholipid, and five unidentified lipids) (Fig. S2). The results of the respiratory quinone test showed that the main component of strain QX-1^T is Q-9. This is consistent with the main respiratory quinone of Halomonas (Dobson and Franzmann 1996).

According to the annotation of the draft genome, strain QX-1^T encodes 60 RNAs, and contains 4473 protein-coding genes. Fifty-nine protein-coding genes in the QX-1^T genome are related to Na⁺ transport (eight genes), K⁺ transport (six genes), trehalose synthesis/metabolism (six genes), ectoine synthesis/metabolism (10 genes), or betaine synthesis/metabolism (29 genes), which may be key elements in the adaptation of QX-1^T to high-salinity environments (Table S4). Strain QX-1^T is a halophilic bacterium, and its normal growth depends on a high concentration of Na⁺. The genes nhaC and nahD encode Na⁺/H⁺ antiporters (Ventosa et al. 1998; Yang et al. 2006), and the gene sstT encodes a serine/threonine–Na⁺ symporter, which maintains the stability of the intracellular Na⁺ concentration and prevents the toxic effects of high intracellular Na⁺. Similarly, there is a K⁺-regulatory mechanism in halophilic bacteria, which balances the osmotic pressure inside and outside the cell by accumulating high concentrations of K⁺ in the cell. The genes trkA and trkH in the QX-1^T genome are related to the Trk-like K⁺ transport system, which has been reported in H. elongate DSM 2581^T (Kraegeloh et al. 2005). As mentioned above, there are also genes related to trehalose, ectoine, and betaine biosynthesis/metabolism in the strain QX-1^T genome. Under high-salinity conditions, halophilic microorganisms can improve their intracellular water activity by the uptake, synthesis, and accumulation of compatible substances, such as sugars, amino acids, ectoine, betaine, and trehalose (Ben-Amotz and Avron 1983; Oren 2008). The genes doeC, doeX, teaA, teaB, and teaC may be related to the anabolism of ectoine (Grammann et al. 2002; Schwibbert et al. 2011); the gene betT encodes and controls the transformation of choline to betaine under high osmotic pressure (Csonka 1989); and the genes otaB and otaC encode betaine transporters. There are also other protein-coding genes related to trehalose, ectoine, and betaine synthesis, metabolism, and transport in the strain QX-1^T genome, which may guarantee its adaptation to a high-salt environment.

Phenotypic, phylogenetic, and chemotaxonomic analyses have shown that strain QX-1^T belongs to the genus Halomonas. However, it differ in some respects from related type strains. QX-1^T also showed low DDH and ANI values when compared with related type strains. These results confirm that strain QX-1^T is a novel species of the genus Halomonas, for which the name Halomonas maris sp. nov. is proposed.

Taxonomic and Nomenclatural Proposals

Description of Halomonas maris sp. nov.

Halomonas maris (ma’ris L. gen. neut. n. maris, of the sea, isolated from sediment of the southwestern Indian Ocean)

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, aerobic, halophilic, motile, rod-shaped, about 0.7–1 μm wide and 1.8–3.0 μm long. Colonies on MA are beige-yellow, convex, glossy, smooth, circular with an entire margin, and 1 mm in diameter after 1 day of incubation at 37 °C. Growth was observed at 4–50 °C (optimum 37 °C), pH 5.0–11.0 (optimum pH 7.0), 3%–25% NaCl (w/v; optimum 7%), and it cannot grow without NaCl. Strain QX-1^T cannot hydrolyze Tween 20, 40, 60, or 80, starch, cellulose, urea, or gelatin. Indole, acetoin (Voges-Proskauer test), and H₂S are not produced. Nitrate is reduced to nitrite, and the bacterium is catalase and oxidase positive. Enzyme activities were observed for alkaline phosphatase, esterase (C4), esterase lipase (C8), leucine arylamidase, valine arylamidase, cystine arylamidase, naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase, arginine hydrolase, and phenylalanine deaminase, but not for lipase (C14), trypsin, chymotrypsin, acid phosphatase, lysine decarboxylase, ornithine decarboxylase, α-galactosidase, β-galactosidase, β-glucosidase, β-glucuronidase, α-mannosidase, or α-fucosidase. Acid is produced from l-arabinose, aesculin, and 2-ketogluconate, but not from glycerol, d-arabinose, d-ribose, d-glucose, d-fructose, d-mannose, melibiose, d-xylose, l-xylose, raffinose, lactose, sucrose, trehalose, d-galactose, l-sorbose, l-rhamnose, inositol, d-arabitol, l-arabitol, d-mannitol, d-sorbitol, d-adonitol, d-fucose, l-fucose or 5-ketogluconate. It utilizes d-maltose, d-trehalose, d-cellobiose, gentiobiose, sucrose, d-turanose, d-lactose, d-melibiose, d-glucose, d-mannose, d-fructose, d-galactose, d-fucose, l-fucose, l-rhamnose, d-sorbitol, d-mannitol, d-arabitol, myo-inositol, d-aspartic acid, l-aspartic acid, l-glutamic acid, and l-malic acid, but not arabinose, d-raffinose, glycerol, d-serine, l-alanine, l-arginine, l-histidine, d-malic acid, l-serine, l-lactic acid, or citrate. Its principal fatty acids are C_16:0 (25.5%), C_17:0 cyclo (14.02%), C_19:0 cyclo ω8c (18.72%), and summed feature 8 (C_18:1ω7c and/or C_18:1ω6c, 18.08%). Its polar lipids are diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, unidentified phospholipid, unidentified aminophospholipid, and five unidentified lipids. The predominant ubiquinone is Q-9. The DNA G+C content of the type strain is 54.4 mol%. The GenBank accession numbers for the 16S rRNA gene sequence and the whole genome sequence of QX-1^T are MT372903 and JABWCV000000000, respectively.

The type strain, QX-1^T (=MCCC 1A17875^T = KCTC 82198^T = NBRC 114670^T), was isolated from a deep-sea sediment sample at 3332 m in the southwestern Indian Ocean.

Author Contributions Xu Qiu performed the technical characterization on strain QX-1 and drafted the manuscript. Xiaorong Cao, Guangxin Xu and Huangming Wu conceived the study and aided to draft the manuscript. Xixiang Tang conceived the study, participated in its design and coordination, and helped to draft the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Funding information This work was supported by the COMRA Project of China (DY135-B2-16) and National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (No.2015CB755901).

Conflicts of interest

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

Footnotes

The GenBank accession numbers for the 16S rRNA, gyrB, and rpoD gene sequences of Halomonas maris QX-1^T are MT372903, MT672349, and MT672348, respectively. The Whole Genome Shotgun project for strain QX-1^T has been deposited at DDBJ/ENA/GenBank under accession number JABWCV000000000. Transmission electron micrographs of cells of strain QX-1^T and the polar lipids of strain QX-1^T are available as supplementary figures in the online Supplementary Materials, together with a table listing the cellular fatty acid profiles of strain QX-1^T and related type strains.

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Table 1. Phenotypic characteristics differentiating strain QX-1^T from the type strains of related Halomonas species.

Strains: 1, QX-1^T; 2, H. sulfidaeris ATCC BAA-803^T; 3, H. zhaodongensis DSM 25869^T; 4, H. songnenensis CGMCC 1.12152^T; 5, H. hydrothermalis CGMCC 1.6325^T; 6, H. subterranea CGMCC 1.6495^T; 7, H. salicampi NBRC 109914^T; 8, H. arcis CGMCC 1.6494^T. All strains are Gram-staining-negative, aerobic, halophilic, and rod-shaped. The data obtained with API 20NE, API 20E, API ZYM, API 50CH, and GEN III for strain QX-1^T and five related type strains were examined in this study. Characteristics are scored as: +, positive; −, negative; w, weakly positive. All data were obtained in this study, unless otherwise indicated.

Characteristic	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Growth properties
Optimal temperature (℃)	37	20-35^a	35^b	35^c	30^a	30^d	28^e	30^d
Optimal salts (%)	5	2-3^a	3^b	4^c	4-7^a	1-5^d	14^e	1-5^d
Optimal pH	7.0	ND^a	9.0^b	7.0^c	ND^a	7.0- 8.0^d	8.5^e	7.0- 8.0^d
Activity of
Cystine arylamidase	+	+	-	+	-	+	+	w
Acid phosphatase	-	-	+	+	-	w	+	-
Arginine dihydrolase	+	-	-	-	+	-	-	-
Phenylalanine deaminase	+	-	-	+	-	+	-	+
Gelatinases	-	-	-	+	+	-	+	-
Acid production from
L-arabinose	w	-	-	-	-	+	-	+
D-ribose	-	+	+	-	+	-	+	-
D-xylose	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-
D-glucose	-	+	+	-	+	+	+	+
D-sucrose	-	-	+	-	-	+	+	+
D-trehalose	-	-	+	-	-	+	+	+
Utilization of
Arabinose	-	+	-	-	+	+	-	-
D-maltose	w	-	+	-	+	+	-	+
D-lactose	w	-	-	-	-	-	+	-
D-galactose	+	-	-	-	+	-	-	-
D-sorbitol	w	-	+	-	-	-	-	-
Glycerol	-	-	+	+	+	+	+	+
Citrate	-	-	+	+	+	+	-	+

Data from: ^a(Kaye et al. 2004); ^b(Jiang et al. 2013); ^c(Jiang et al. 2014a); ^d(Xu et al. 2007); ^e(Lee et al. 2015)

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