PMID- 19396950 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20090522 LR - 20191111 IS - 1462-2920 (Electronic) IS - 1462-2912 (Linking) VI - 11 IP - 4 DP - 2009 Apr TI - 'Candidatus Lumbricincola', a novel lineage of uncultured Mollicutes from earthworms of family Lumbricidae. PG - 1016-26 AB - Molecular signatures of new, as yet uncultured mollicute-like organisms (MLOs) have been detected in total rRNA and DNA extracted from tissues, gut contents and casts of four species of the earthworm family Lumbricidae. The MLO 16S rRNA sequences exhibited low identity to those of known Mollicutes species and formed a monophyletic cluster distantly affiliated to the 'Candidatus Bacilloplasma' (84.9%) and almost equidistant to the other main phylogenetic group of Mollicutes (< 79.8%) and the classes Bacilli (< 79.5%) and Clostridia (< 76.1%). SSCP profiling and sequence analysis of bands and bacterial clones derived from the earthworms and substrata revealed high phylogenetic relatedness of MLOs in earthworms from different geographic locations (Russia and Germany), with no obvious host species specificity being observed. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis with a nucleotide probe specific for the new MLO group localized them to the coelomic fluids of earthworms. A new taxonomic group within the Mollicutes, designated 'Candidatus Lumbricincola', is proposed to include these as yet uncultured organisms. FAU - Nechitaylo, Taras Y AU - Nechitaylo TY AD - Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany. FAU - Timmis, Kenneth N AU - Timmis KN FAU - Golyshin, Peter N AU - Golyshin PN LA - eng SI - GENBANK/AM905473 SI - GENBANK/AM905474 SI - GENBANK/AM905475 SI - GENBANK/AM905476 SI - GENBANK/AM905477 SI - GENBANK/AM905478 SI - GENBANK/AM905479 SI - GENBANK/AM905480 SI - GENBANK/AM905481 SI - GENBANK/AM905482 SI - GENBANK/AM905483 SI - GENBANK/AM905484 SI - GENBANK/AM905485 SI - GENBANK/AM905486 SI - GENBANK/AM905487 SI - GENBANK/AM905488 SI - GENBANK/AM905489 SI - GENBANK/AM905490 SI - GENBANK/AM905491 SI - GENBANK/AM905492 SI - GENBANK/AM905493 SI - GENBANK/AM905494 SI - GENBANK/AM905495 SI - GENBANK/AM905496 SI - GENBANK/AM905497 SI - GENBANK/AM905498 SI - GENBANK/AM905499 SI - GENBANK/AM905500 SI - GENBANK/AM905501 SI - GENBANK/AM905502 SI - GENBANK/AM905503 SI - GENBANK/AM905504 SI - GENBANK/AM905505 SI - GENBANK/AM905506 SI - GENBANK/AM905507 SI - GENBANK/AM905508 SI - GENBANK/AM905509 SI - GENBANK/AM905510 SI - GENBANK/AM905511 SI - GENBANK/AM905512 SI - GENBANK/AM905513 SI - GENBANK/AM905514 SI - GENBANK/AM905515 SI - GENBANK/AM905516 SI - GENBANK/AM905517 SI - GENBANK/AM905518 SI - GENBANK/AM905519 SI - GENBANK/AM905520 SI - GENBANK/AM905521 SI - GENBANK/AM905522 SI - GENBANK/AM905523 SI - GENBANK/AM905524 SI - GENBANK/AM905525 SI - GENBANK/AM905526 SI - GENBANK/AM905527 SI - GENBANK/AM905528 SI - GENBANK/AM905529 SI - GENBANK/AM905530 SI - GENBANK/AM905531 SI - GENBANK/AM905532 SI - GENBANK/AM905533 SI - GENBANK/AM905534 SI - GENBANK/AM905535 SI - GENBANK/AM905536 SI - GENBANK/AM905537 SI - GENBANK/AM905538 SI - GENBANK/AM905539 SI - GENBANK/AM905540 SI - GENBANK/AM905541 SI - GENBANK/AM905542 SI - GENBANK/AM905543 SI - GENBANK/AM905544 SI - GENBANK/AM905545 SI - GENBANK/AM905546 SI - GENBANK/AM905547 SI - GENBANK/AM905548 SI - GENBANK/AM905549 SI - GENBANK/AM905550 SI - GENBANK/AM905551 SI - GENBANK/AM905552 SI - GENBANK/AM905553 SI - GENBANK/AM905554 SI - GENBANK/AM905555 SI - GENBANK/AM905556 SI - GENBANK/AM905557 SI - GENBANK/FM165581 SI - GENBANK/FM165582 SI - GENBANK/FM165583 SI - GENBANK/FM165584 SI - GENBANK/FM165585 PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - England TA - Environ Microbiol JT - Environmental microbiology JID - 100883692 RN - 0 (DNA, Bacterial) RN - 0 (DNA, Ribosomal) RN - 0 (RNA, Bacterial) RN - 0 (RNA, Ribosomal, 16S) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Cluster Analysis MH - DNA Fingerprinting MH - DNA, Bacterial/chemistry/genetics MH - DNA, Ribosomal/chemistry/genetics MH - Genes, rRNA MH - Germany MH - In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Oligochaeta/*microbiology MH - Phylogeny MH - RNA, Bacterial/genetics MH - RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics MH - Russia MH - Sequence Analysis, DNA MH - Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid MH - Tenericutes/*classification/*isolation & purification EDAT- 2009/04/28 09:00 MHDA- 2009/05/23 09:00 CRDT- 2009/04/28 09:00 PHST- 2009/04/28 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2009/04/28 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2009/05/23 09:00 [medline] AID - 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01837.x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Environ Microbiol. 2009 Apr;11(4):1016-26. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01837.x.