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Ruminococcus luti sp. nov., isolated from a human faecal sample (2002)

Art

Zeitschriftenartikel / wissenschaftlicher Beitrag

Autoren

Simmering, Rainer

Taras, David

Schwiertz, Andreas

Le Blay, Gwenaelle

Gruhl, Bärbel

Lawson, Paul A

Collins, Matrhew D

Blaut, Michael

Quelle

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Bandzählung: 25

Heftzählung: 2

Seiten: 189 – 193

ISSN: 0723-2020

Sprache

Englisch

Verweise

Pubmed: 12353871

Kontakt

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tierernaehrung@vetmed.fu-berlin.de

Abstract / Zusammenfassung

A strain of an unidentified strictly anoxic, gram-postive, non-motile Ruminococcus-like bacterium was isolated from a human faecal sample. The organism used carbohydrates as fermentable substrates, produced acetate, succinate, and hydrogen as the major products of glucose metabolism, and possessed a G + C content of 43.3 mol%. The morphological and biochemical characteristics of the organism were consistent with its assignment to the genus Ruminococcus but it did not correspond to any recognized species of this genus. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequencing showed the unidentified bacterium represents a previously unrecognised sub-line within the Clostridium coccoides rRNA group of organisms. The nearest relative of the unknown bacterium corresponded to Ruminococcus obeum but a 16S rRNA sequence divergence value of >3% demonstrated it represents a different species. Based on the presented findings a new species, Ruminococcus luti, is described. The type strain of Ruminococcus luti is BInIX(T) (DSM 14534T, CCUG 45635T).