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A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-motile, rod-shaped, cold-tolerant bacterium, designated F01003T, was isolated from soil sampled near Happiness Bay on the west coast of Antarctica. Strain F01003T was found to grow at 4-30 °C (optimum, 25 °C), pH 5.5-8.0 (pH 6.5-7.0) and in the presence of 0-1â% NaCl (0â%, w/v). Cells were oxidase-positive and catalase-positive. Strain F01003T contained menaquinone 7 (MK-7) as the predominant respiratory quinone. The main cellular fatty acids included summed feature 3 (C16â:â1ω6c and/or C16â:â1ω7c) and iso-C15â:â0. Phosphatidylethanolamine and an unidentified aminolipid were identified as the major polar lipids. The DNA G+C content of strain F01003T was 44.8 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis of the nearly full-length 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that strain F01003T was most closely related to the genus Mucilaginibacter and exhibited the highest sequence similarity to Mucilaginibacter phyllosphaerae LMG 29118T (97.3â%). On the basis of the evidence presented in this polyphasic taxonomic study, strain F01003T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Mucilaginibacter, for which the name Mucilaginibactergilvus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is F01003T (=KCTC 62991T=CCTCC AB 2019023T).
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Bacteroidetes/clasificación , Filogenia , Microbiología del Suelo , Regiones Antárticas , Técnicas de Tipificación Bacteriana , Bacteroidetes/aislamiento & purificación , Composición de Base , ADN Bacteriano/genética , Ácidos Grasos/química , Fosfatidiletanolaminas/química , ARN Ribosómico 16S/genética , Análisis de Secuencia de ADN , Vitamina K 2/análogos & derivados , Vitamina K 2/químicaRESUMEN
Chlamydiae are one of the causative agents of various diseases in animals and human beings, which include abortion, pneumonia, gastroenteritis, encephalomyelitis, conjunctivitis, arthritis and sexually transmitted diseases. Much work has been carried out to attempt to develop an efficient pathogen detection strategy. Here, we presented a Chlamydiaceae-specific 23S rRNA-based real-time PCR assay for simultaneous detection and quantification of four members of Chlamydiaceae family, C. trachomatis, C. psittaci, C. pneumoniae and C. pecorum, using SYBR Green and Lightcycler. The assay was characterized using plasmid constructs of the bacteria and verified on standard strains of all four species of the Chlamydiaceae and a large cohort of clinical samples collected from human and animals by comparison with fluorescence immunohistochemistry method. The results showed that the present real-time PCR assay was of high specificity and sensitivity. It was capable of detecting as few as 250fg of chlamydial DNA (equivalent to 10(-1)IFU) and was applicable to both liquid cultures and clinical samples. This assay may therefore offer a rapid, economic and reliable means for screening of the chlamydiaceae pathogens.
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Infecciones por Chlamydia/diagnóstico , Chlamydiaceae/aislamiento & purificación , Reacción en Cadena de la Polimerasa de Transcriptasa Inversa/métodos , Animales , Infecciones por Chlamydia/microbiología , Chlamydia trachomatis/genética , Chlamydia trachomatis/aislamiento & purificación , Chlamydiaceae/genética , Chlamydophila/genética , Chlamydophila/aislamiento & purificación , Chlamydophila pneumoniae/genética , Chlamydophila pneumoniae/aislamiento & purificación , Chlamydophila psittaci/genética , Chlamydophila psittaci/aislamiento & purificación , Estudios de Evaluación como Asunto , Técnica del Anticuerpo Fluorescente , Genes Bacterianos , Humanos , Inmunohistoquímica , Técnicas de Amplificación de Ácido Nucleico , Plásmidos/genética , Aves de Corral , ARN Bacteriano/análisis , ARN Ribosómico 23S/genética , Estándares de Referencia , Reproducibilidad de los Resultados , Sensibilidad y Especificidad , Ovinos , Especificidad de la EspecieRESUMEN
The open reading frame of peacock and parakeet prion protein (PrP) genes was cloned and sequenced. The peacock and parakeet PrP genes consisted of 833 and 866 nucleotides encoding 266 and 277 amino acids, respectively (GenBank Accession numbers AY365065 and AY365066). Sequence analysis showed that the peacock and parakeet PrP genes had 93.67% homology to each other, 94.04% and 99.64% homology to the chicken PrP gene and 46.0% and 42.1% similarity to the mammalian PrP genes, respectively. The structural features of all known mammalian and avian PrPs, including N-terminal signal peptides, tandem repeats, conserved hydrophobic region, disulfide bridges and glycoinositol phospholipid anchor, were also found in peacock and parakeet PrPs. The parakeet and peacock PrPs, however, differed in the hexarepeat region, with the peacock having six and the parakeet having seven hexarepeats. The phylogenetic analysis showed that the PrP genes in 52 species were clustered into 2 distinct lineages, the avian and the mammalian. The peacock and parakeet PrP genes belonged to the same lineage but the peacock PrP was sub-classed with the pigeon PrP and the parakeet PrP was sub-classed with the duck and chicken PrPs. The present work added two more species data to the collection of the PrP genes and supported the previous findings that the PrP genes are highly conserved across species.
