Open AccessBifidobacterium tibiigranuli sp. nov. isolated from homemade water kefir
Author(s) -
Viktor P. L. Eckel,
Lisa-Marie Ziegler,
Rudi F. Vogel,
Matthias A. Ehrmann
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.925
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1466-5034
pISSN - 1466-5026
DOI - 10.1099/ijsem.0.003936
Subject(s) - biology , bifidobacterium , rpob , bifidobacterium breve , phylogenetic tree , 16s ribosomal rna , genetics , housekeeping gene , microbiology and biotechnology , gene , bacteria , lactobacillus , gene expression
Two Bifidobacterium strains, TMW 2.2057 T and TMW 2.1764 were isolated from two different homemade water kefirs from Germany. Both strains were oxidase- and catalase-negative and Gram-staining-positive. Cells were non-motile, irregular rods that were aerotolerant anaerobes. On basis of fructose 6-phosphate phosphoketolase activity, they were assigned to the family Bifidobacteriaceae. Comparative analysis of 16S rRNA and concatenated housekeeping genes ( clpC , dnaB , dnaG , dnaJ , hsp60 and rpoB ) demonstrated that both strains represented a member of the genus Bifidobacterium , with Bifidobacterium subtile DSM 20096 T as the closest phylogenetic relative (98.35 % identity). Both strains can be distinguished using randomly amplified polymorphic DNA fingerprinting. Analysis of concatenated marker gene sequences as well as average nucleotide identity by blast (ANIb) and in silico DNA–DNA hybridization (isDDH) calculations of their genome sequences confirmed Bifidobacterium subtile DSM 20096 T as the closest relative (87.91 and 35.80 % respectively). All phylogenetic analyses allow differentiation of strains TMW 2.2057 T and TMW 2.1764 from all hitherto described species of the genus Bifidobacterium with validly published names. We therefore propose a novel species with the name Bifidobacterium tibiigranuli , for which TMW 2.2057 T (=DSM 108414 T =LMG 31086 T ) is the type strain.