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Thermotoga hypogea sp. nov., a Xylanolytic, Thermophilic Bacterium from an Oil-Producing Well

¹Laboratoire ORSTOM de Microbiologie des Anaérobies, Université de Provence, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9
⁴Département de Biologie, Université de la Méditerranée, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9
³Sanofi Recherche, Unité de Microbiologie, Groupe Elf-Aquitaine, 31676 Labége Cedex, France
⁵Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Université René Descartes, 75270 Paris Cedex 6, France
⁶Laboratoire de Biochimie, Hôpital St-Vincent-de-Paul, 75674 Paris Cedex 14, France
²School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland 4111, Australia

^* Corresponding author. Mailing address:Laboratoire ORSTOM de Microbiologic des Anaérobies, Université de Provence, CESB-ESIL case 925, 163 Avenue de Luminy, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France. Phone: 33.4.91.82.85.76. Fax: 33.4.91.82.85.70. E-mail:ollivier{at}orstom.esil.univ.mrs.fr.

ABSTRACT

A new thermophilic, xylanolytic, strictly anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium, strain SEBR 7054^T, was isolated from an African oil-producing well. Based on the presence of an outer sheath (toga) and 16S rRNA sequence analysis data, this organism was identified as a member of the genus Thermotoga. Strain SEBR 7054^T possessed lateral flagella, had a G+C content of 50 mol%, produced traces of ethanol from glucose but no lactate, and grew optimally in the presence of 0 to 0.2% NaCl at 70°C. Its phenotypic and phylogenetic characteristics clearly differed from those reported for the five previously validly described Thermotoga species. Therefore, we propose that strain SEBR 7054^T is a member of a new species of the genus Thermotoga, Thermotoga hypogea sp. nov. The type strain of T. hypogea is SEBR 7054 (= DSM 11164).

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