Abstract
Three marine bacterial strains designated YLB-06T, YLB-08T and YLB-09 were isolated under high hydrostatic pressure from deep-sea sediment samples collected from the Southwest Indian Ocean. They were Gram-stain-negative, oxidase- and catalase-positive, facultative anaerobic and motile. In addition, the strains were capable of growing at 0–20 °C (optimum 4–10 °C) and 0.1–40 MPa (optimum 0.1 MPa), were psychrophiles and piezotolerant, and could use trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), DMSO, elemental sulfur and insoluble Fe (III) as terminal electron acceptors during anaerobic growth. Strain YLB-06T could also use nitrate, and strains YLB-08T and YLB-09 could use nitrite as a terminal electron acceptor. Phylogenetic tree analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences and 400 optimized universal marker sequences indicated that the strains belonged to the genus Shewanella. The 16S rRNA gene highest similarity, together with the estimated ANI and DDH values for these strains with their related type strains, were below the respective thresholds for species differentiation. The ANI and DDH values between YLB-08T and YLB-09 were 99.9% and 91.8%, respectively, implying that they should belong to the same genospecies. The YLB-06T genome had duplicated genes, and multiple movement modalities, attachment modalities, biofilm synthesis systems, intercellular interactions and a strong antioxidant system, which were all beneficial for survival in an extreme deep-sea environment. The G + C contents of strains YLB-06T, YLB-08T and YLB-09 were 45.1, 43.5 and 43.6 mol%, respectively. Based on polyphasic taxonomic properties, two novel psychropiezotolerant species are proposed, Shewanella psychropiezotolerans sp. nov. with YLB-06T (=MCCC 1A12715T = KCTC 62907T) and S. eurypsychrophilus sp. nov with YLB-08T (=MCCC 1A12718T = KCTC 62909T) as type strains.
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