Planococcus faecalis sp. nov., a carotenoid-producing species isolated from stools of Antarctic penguins

Abstract

Taxonomic studies were performed on a novel carotenoid-producing strain, designated AJ003 Based on the phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic data, strain AJ003

Carotenoids from heterotrophic bacteria isolated from Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, Antarctica

“…Five isolates were affiliated to the phylum Bacteroidetes, and belong to the genera Zobellia , Chryseobacterium and Flavobacterium , and the other four isolates were affiliated to the phylum Firmicutes and assigned to Planococcus genus. All genera mention above have been previously reported in Antarctica, and they were characterized as pigmented [ [29] , [30] , [31] ]. In particular, strain P33 was assigned to Flavobacterium genus with a 96% similarity, indicating that it could be a new specie.…”

“…Even though strains belonging to Planococcus genus have been widely reported as pigmented strains, the identification of carotenoids produced by Planococcus is scarce in the literature. Shindo et al [ 5 ] reported that P. maritimus produced methyl glucosyl-3,4-dehydro-apo-8′-lycopenoate, and Kim et al [ 29 ] that P. faecalis produced glycosyl-4,4′-diaponeurosporen-4′-ol-4 oic acid as major pigment, and both are C30 carotenoids. However, C.p.…”

Factors influencing pigment production by halophilic bacteria and its effect on brine evaporation rates

“…The main type of carotenoid produced by Planococcus species has been described as Glyco-C30-carotenoic acid. These terpenoids possess a chain of 30, 40 or 50 carbons, with absorption peaks at 450-490 nm (Kim et al, 2015;Ganapathy et al, 2016). The Planococcus sp.…”

Characteristics of Planococcus antioxidans sp. nov., an antioxidant‐producing strain isolated from the desert soil in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

“…The genus Planococcus was originally described by Migula (1895). There were 16 valid species in the genus Planococcus until recently: P. citreus (Migula, 1895), P. kocurii (Hao & Komagata, 1985), P. antarcticus (Reddy et al, 2002), P. maritimus (Yoon, Weiss, Kang, Oh, & Park, 2003), P. maitriensis (Alam, Singh, Dube, Reddy, & Shivaji, 2003), P. rifietoensis (Romano, Giordano, Lama, Nicolaus, & Gambacorta, 2003), P. columbae (Suresh, Mayilraj, Bhattacharya, & Chakrabarti, 2007), P. donghaensis (Choi et al, 2007), P. salinarum (Yoon, Kang, Lee, Oh, & Oh, 2010), P. halocryophilus (Mykytczuk, Wilhelm, & Whyte, 2012), P. plakortidis (Kaur et al, 2012), P. soli (Luo et al, 2014), P. faecalis (Kim, Kang, Yu, Kim, & Lee, 2015), P. ruber (Wang et al, 2017), P. salinus (Gan, Zhang, Tian, et al, 2018), and P. halotolerans (Gan, Zhang, Zhang, et al, 2018). Due to their phenotypic properties, menaquinone profiles, fatty acid composition and G + C content in the DNA, the species Planococcus mcmeekinii (Yoon et al, 2001), Planococcus okeanokoites (Yoon et al, 2001), Planococcus alkanoclasticum (Dai, Wang, Wang, Liu, & Zhou, 2005), Planococcus psychrophilum (Dai et al, 2005), and P. stackebrandtii (Jung, Kang, Oh, Yoon, & Kim, 2009) were reclassified to genus Planomicrobium , and Planococcus halophilus was cataloged to the genus Marinococcus (Hao, Kocur, & Komagata, 1984; Novitsky & Kushner, 1976).…”