Isolamento, propriedades e cinética de crescimento de um Bacillus termofílicoAdriane Nunes de Souza Meire Lelis Leal Martins About the authors Show
AbstractsA strictly aerobic, thermophilic, spore-forming bacteria was isolated from a soil sample collected in Campos dos Goytacazes City, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The cells of this organism were Gram-positive, catalase positive, actively motile, 1.2 µm wide and 5.3 µm long. Growth occurred at pH values ranging from 6.5 to 9.0, and optimum growth occurred at about pH 7.0. The optimum temperature for growth was around 55ºC, and the upper temperature limit for growth was around 70ºC. Yeast extract stimulated growth on glucose and was obligately required at supraoptimal temperatures (65ºC). The results of 16S rRNA sequence comparisons indicated that the isolate was closely related to Bacillus caldoxylolyticus and Bacillus sp strain AK1, and these three organisms exhibited levels of ribossomal DNA sequence homology of 94%. Thermophilic microorganism; Bacillus; isolation Uma bactéria formadora de esporos, termofílica e aeróbica estrita foi isolada de amostras de solo coletadas na cidade de Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. As células deste organismo foram Gram-positivas, móveis e mediram 1,2 µm de largura e 5,3 µm de comprimento. O crescimento ocorreu a valores de pH variando de 6,5 a 9,0 e o crescimento ótimo ocorreu em torno de pH 7,0. A temperatura ótima de crescimento foi em torno de 55ºC e a máxima de 70ºC. O extrato de levedura estimulou o crescimento do organismo em glicose e foi obrigatoriamente requerido a supra-ótimas temperaturas (65ºC). Os resultados da comparação de seqüências de 16SrRNA indicaram que o isolado foi proximamente relacionado com o Bacillus caldoxylolyticus and Bacillus sp AK1 e estes três organismos exibiram níveis de homologia de 94% nas seqüências de DNA ribossomal Microrganismo termófilo; Bacillus; Isolamento ISOLATION, PROPERTIES AND KINETICS OF GROWTH OF A THERMOPHILIC BACILLUS Adriane Nunes de Souza; Meire Lelis Leal Martins* * Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratório de Tecnologia de Alimentos/CCTA, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense; Av. Alberto Lamego, 2000. 28015-620, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brasil. FAX (+5524)726-3873. E-mail: Laboratório de Tecnologia de Alimentos/CCTA; Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brasil Submitted: November 16, 2000; Returned to authors for corrections: May 28, 2001; Approved: November 21, 2001
INTRODUCTION Several intensive studies were performed to isolate thermophilic carbohydrate-fermenting bacteria from several habitats, aiming the use of these microbes and their enzymes for biotechnological applications (1,5,6,8,12,20,22). The majority of the investigated thermophilic bacteria belong to the genus Bacillus and they have been isolated from thermophilic and mesophilic environments (3,4,8,11,13). According to Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology (5), this genus is phenotypically heterogeneous with members exhibiting an extremely wide range of nutritional requirements, growth conditions, metabolic diversity and DNA base composition (2). The nutritional requirements of many thermophilic strains have been investigated and frequently found to be complex (3,4,5). Successful cultivation at higher temperatures depended upon the composition of the medium, the degrees of complexity usually being parallel to the increase of the growth temperature. This study describes the isolation and characterisation of a thermophilic Bacillus strain based on morphological, physiological, biochemical and phylogenetic studies. Furthermore, it also describes the effect of the temperature of incubation upon the nutritional requirements of the organism. MATERIALS AND METHODS Isolation of the organism Soil samples (about 1 g) were suspended in 100 mL of sterile water, slightly agitated for 2h at 100 rpm, poured and spread onto TSY (Bacto-tryptone 10 g; Bacto-yeast extract 5 g; NaCl 10 g; agar 10 g; H2O 1L) agar plates. These plates were sealed in plastic bags to reduce evaporation and incubated at 65ºC for 24h . Some of the colonies that grew on the plates were purified by successive streaking on TSY plates. Finally, a few colonies of a homogeneous morphology were selected. All colonies isolated by this procedure proved to be thermophilic and did not grow in TSY medium at or bellow 44ºC for as long as 7 days. The results reported here are related to one of these isolates. Thermophilic bacteria were characterized according to Gordon et al. (7). All physiological and biochemical tests were carried out at 50ºC. 16S rRNA sequence analysis The genomic DNA was extracted from the isolate and the amplification of the 16S rDNA was performed through PCR technique. The purified PCR products were sequenced on an automated DNA sequencer (ALFexpress, Pharmacia). The 16S rDNA sequence of isolate was aligned with the 16S rRNA gene sequences of various members of the genus Bacillus obtained from the Ribosomal RNA Database Project and from Genbank (10). Matrices of evolutionary distances were computed from the sequences alignments by calculating a pair wise Jukes-Cantor (9). From these distances, phylogenetic trees were inferred by a neighbour-joining method (16). Growth conditions The organism was grown on TSY agar plates for 12h at 55ºC. Approximately 5 mL of the liquid medium containing (g/L of distilled water): NaH2PO4.2H2O, 1.56; NH4Cl, 5.35; KCl, 0.745; Na2SO4.10H2O, 0.644; Citric acid, 0.42; MgCl2.6H2O, 0.25; CaCl2, 2.2x10-3;ZnO, 2.5x10-3; FeCl3.6H2O, 2.7x10-2; MnCl2.4H2O, 1.0x 10-2; CuCl2.2H2O, 8.5x10-4; CoCl2.6H2O, 2.4x10-3 ; NiCl3.6H2O, 2.5x10-4; H2BO3, 3.0x10-4; Na2MoO4, 1.0x10-3,pH 4.0 was pipetted into these agar plates and the cells scraped off using a sterile Pasteur pipette. The same liquid medium (50 mL contained in a 250 mL tightly closed Erlenmeyer flask) was inoculated with this suspension to give an initial absorbance at 470 nm of at least 0.1 and the cultures were incubated at temperatures starting at 50ºC and going up to 65ºC, with vigorous aeration in a shaker at 250 rpm. The pH was adjusted to 7.0 and the medium sterilised by autoclaving at 121ºC for 30min. Glucose was sterilised separately and aseptically added to the flasks containing the liquid medium, after cooling. At time intervals, the turbidity of the cultures was determined by measuring the increase in optical density at 470 nm with a spectrophotometer Hitachi Model U-2000. RESULTS Strain characteristics: cell morphology The isolate was a Gram-positive bacilli. It was actively motile, 1.2 µm wide and 5.3 µm long. It occurred singly or in chains and in monomorphic forms. Spores were subterminal to terminal, ellipsoidal in shape. Predominantly unswollen sporangia were seen. The isolate grew well on Nutrient Agar or in Nutrient Broth at 50ºC for 24h, but it did not grow anaerobically in the same conditions. On Nutrient Agar, the colonies usually were circular with smooth edges, brightness, yellowish and were convex. Their size varied from small to 4 mm in diameter. Growth characteristics and physiology The isolate was a thermophilic, strictly aerobic bacterium. The optimal growth temperature of this strain was found to be around 55ºC and no growth was obtained after 7 days below 44ºC or above 70ºC. The strain had a broad pH range for growth 6.5 ¾ 9.0 with an optimum of 7.0 (Fig. 1). The following sugars were fermented with acid production: ribose, D-glucose, D-fructose, D-mannose, cellobiose, amygdalin, esculin, salicin, N-acetyl-D-glucosaminemaltose, trehalose, starch, glycogen, gentiobiose, D-Galactose, Lactose, sucrose, melibiose, glycerol, L-xylose, b-m-xylosideo, b-gentiobiose, a-methyl-D-glucoside, D-turanose, D-mannitol and xylitol. It was not observed acid production in Erythritol, D- and L-arabinose, adonitol, dulcitol, rhamnose, inositol, sorbitol, a-methyl-D-mannoside, arbutin, inulin, D-raffinose, D-lyxose, D-tagatose, D- and L-fucose, D- and L-arabitol, gluconate, 2-keto-gluconate and 5-keto-gluconate. The strain grew in Nutrient Broth containing 5.0% NaCl (m/v), but was inhibited by 7.0% NaCl. Urea was not attacked; catalase was positive. Indole was not formed and acetoin formation was positive. Nitrate was reduced to nitrite. When the organism was grown at 55ºC in the absence of glucose but in the presence of yeast extract in the liquid medium, good growth was obtained, indicating that yeast extract can be used as one sole carbon and energy source. Also, good growth was observed when gelatine or casein replaced yeast extract. Effect of temperature on growth Growth obtained in the liquid medium supplemented with yeast extract (0.5%) at 50ºC, 55ºC, 60ºC and 65ºC is shown in Fig. 2. It can be seen that the temperature determined the rate of growth. The shortest lag was observed at 55ºC and the longest at 50ºC. The highest turbidity was reached in cultures growing at the temperature of 55ºC. At 65ºC, addition of peptone (1%) to the medium caused a further increase in growth, inducing higher growth rate. However, a small amount of growth was observed in the absence of yeast extract or peptone when glucose was used as an energy source (Fig. 3). Phylogeny 16S rDNA sequence analysis indicated that the isolate is a member of the thermophilic Bacillus group. Based on the morphological, biochemical and physiological characteristics, the isolate was assigned to Bacillus rRNA group 5. The partial 16S rDNA sequence showed a similarity of 94% to Bacillus caldoxylolyticus and Bacillus sp strain AK1 and 90% to 91% of similarity to Bacillus stearothermophilus, Bacillus thermocatenulatus, Bacillus thermoleovorans, Bacillus denitrificans, Bacillus flavothermus and Bacillus thermoglucosidasius. Fig. 4 is the dendrogram generated by the neighbour-joining method from the evolutionary distance matrix and shows this relationship. DISCUSSION The strain isolated could be categorized as thermophilic since it required a temperature of about 55ºC for optimum growth and was unable to grow outside the temperature range of 44ºC ¾70ºC. The morphological and physiological characteristics and nutritional requirements of the isolate were consistent with the description of two species of the genus Bacillus: B. circulans and B. macerans (7). However, there are important differences between these organisms and the isolate. B. circulans and B. macerans grow at pH 5.7, the upper temperature limit for their growth is 50ºC, acetoin is not formed, the sporangia is swollen and there is acid production from L-xylose, xylitol, arbutin, D-raffinose, L-arabinose. In addition, B. macerans does not grow in the presence of 5% and 7% of NaCl, does not hydrolyze casein and grows anaerobically. An analysis of the 16S rRNA gene of the isolate revealed that this organism is phylogenetically closely related to members of the genus Bacillus rRNA group 5 (2,15). This group includes Bacillus stearothermophilus and other thermophilic Bacillus spp. The levels of similarity ranged from 90% to 91% from B stearothermophilus, B. thermocatenulatus, B. thermoleovorans, B. denitrificans, B. flavothermus and B. thermoglucosidasius to 94% for B. caldoxylolyticus and Bacillus sp strain AK1. B. thermocatenulatus is a facultatively anaerobic bacterium that does not hydrolyse starch and gelatine. It does not produce acid from xylose and lactose; acetoin is not formed. The temperature range for growth of this organism is 35ºC ¾ 78ºC. B. flavothermus is also a facultatively anaerobic bacterium that does not hydrolyse gelatine and grows at 30oC. B. thermoleovorans does not form acetoin, degrades urea and hydrolyses casein weakly. Therefore, the isolate could not be identified as one of these species. Another phylogenetically closely related species to the isolate is B. thermodenitrificans, which belongs to the "B. stearothermophilus" complex. However, the isolate was separated by a numerical study from typical strains of B. stearothermophilus (21). The strain Bacillus sp. AK1 was the bacteria most closely related to the isolate for which 16S rRNA sequence data is available. On the other hand, the phylogenetically most closely related to Bacillus sp AK1 species is B. thermoglucosidasius (23). However, the isolate showed that levels of similarity to this organism ranged from 90% to 91%. On the basis of morphological, biochemical, physiological and phylogenetic studies we concluded that the isolate is closely related to the members of the Bacillus rRNA group 5. However, even taking all data into account, it is not possible to identify the isolate as being one of the above mentioned species. Indeed, this approach led to the classification of the isolate as a thermophilic member of the genus Bacillus where all aerobic, endospore-forming organisms have been classified. Reports in the literature dealing with the effect of temperature on the growth requirements of several thermophilic microorganisms have shown that some of them had additional requirements as the incubation temperature was increased and others showed no differences in growth requirements, regardless of the incubation temperature (6,24). The thermophile isolate required yeast extract to grow at supraoptimal temperatures (65ºC), suggesting that at higher temperatures the enzymes responsible for the synthesis of a particular metabolite present in this compound underwent thermal inactivation and thus the organism required it as an exogenous source. An alternative explanation is that the complete inactivation of a gene responsible for the synthesis of an essential metabolite imposed upon the organism a requirement of an external source of the substance which it could no longer produce. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We thank the FAPERJ for financial assistance and the André Tosello Foundation for the 16S rRNA sequence studies. RESUMO Isolamento, propriedades e cinética de crescimento de um Bacillus termofílico Uma bactéria formadora de esporos, termofílica e aeróbica estrita foi isolada de amostras de solo coletadas na cidade de Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. As células deste organismo foram Gram-positivas, móveis e mediram 1,2 µm de largura e 5,3 µm de comprimento. O crescimento ocorreu a valores de pH variando de 6,5 a 9,0 e o crescimento ótimo ocorreu em torno de pH 7,0. A temperatura ótima de crescimento foi em torno de 55ºC e a máxima de 70ºC. O extrato de levedura estimulou o crescimento do organismo em glicose e foi obrigatoriamente requerido a supra-ótimas temperaturas (65ºC). Os resultados da comparação de seqüências de 16SrRNA indicaram que o isolado foi proximamente relacionado com o Bacillus caldoxylolyticus and Bacillus sp AK1 e estes três organismos exibiram níveis de homologia de 94% nas seqüências de DNA ribossomal Palavras-chave: Microrganismo termófilo, Bacillus, Isolamento Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratório de Tecnologia de Alimentos/CCTA, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense; Av. Alberto Lamego, 2000. 28015-620, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brasil. FAX (+5524)726-3873. E-mail:
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