Article
Deinococcus aetherius sp. nov., isolated from the stratosphere.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Apr 2010
Yang Yinjie, Itoh Takashi, Yokobori Shin-Ichi, Shimada Haruo, Itahashi Shiho, Satoh Katsuya, Ohba Hirofumi, Narumi Issay, Yamagishi Akihiko
Abstract excerpt
A pink-red pigmented, non-motile, coccoid bacterial strain, ST0316(T), was isolated from dust samples collected from the stratosphere in Japan. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that it belonged to the genus Deinococcus. DNA G+C content (69.8 mol%), desiccation tolerance, and resistance to gamma-rays [D(10) (dose required to reduce the bacterial population by 10-fold) >8 kGy] and UV...
Topics
- Air Microbiology
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Base Composition
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Deinococcus
- Dust
- Fatty Acids
- Gamma Rays
- Genes, rRNA
- Japan
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Peptidoglycan
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny