Alteromonas australica sp. nov., a poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) degrading bacterium, isolated from the Tasman Sea, Pacific Ocean, Victoria, Australia

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Title: Alteromonas australica sp. nov., a poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) degrading bacterium, isolated from the Tasman Sea, Pacific Ocean, Victoria, Australia
Author(s): Ng, Hooi Jun; Webb, Hayden; Crawford, Russell; Malherbe, Francois; Patterson, John; Ivanova, Elena
Abstract: The first volume of Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology (1984) described only one genus and one species of Gram-negative aerobic heterotrophic marine bacteria with one polar flagellum, Alteromonas Baumann, Baumann, Mandel, and Allen 1972. During its dynamic and turbulent taxonomic history, the genus underwent detailed investigations and currently comprises 9 recognised species: Alteromonas macleodii (Baumann et al., 1972), A. marina (Yoon et al., 2003), A. stellipolaris (Van Trappen et al., 2004), A. litorea (Yoon et al., 2004), A. hispanica (Martinez-Checa et al., 2005), A. addita (Ivanova et al., 2005), A. simiduii, A. tagae (Chiu et al., 2007) and A. genovensis (Vandecandelaere et al., 2008). In this study, a new species belonging to the genus Alteromonas is presented. This bacterium was isolated from a seawater sample collected from Port Philip Bay (the Tasman Sea, Pacific Ocean) in the course of a taxonomic survey of free-living microbial populations capable of metabolising poly (ethylene terephthalate) (PET) reported by Webb et al. (2009). The new bacterium, designated as strain H17T, exhibited characteristics typical for the genus, including phenotypic, chemotaxonomic (phospholipids and cellular fatty acids; the latter had the high proportion of 16:1
Publication type: Conference poster
Source: Poster presented at 'Microbiology on the Edge', the 2011 Australian Society of Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM 2011), Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 04-08 July 2011
Publication year: 2011
Keyword(s): Alteromonas; Bacterium
Publisher: Australian Society of Microbiology
Publisher URL: http://www.asm2011.org/abstract/136.asp