Proposal for reclassification of the species Hungatella xylanolytica as Lacrimispora xylanisolvens nom. nov. and transfer of the genus Hungatella to the family Lachnospiraceae.

Hungatella xylanolytica X5-1T is an anaerobic, xylan-fermenting bacterium first isolated from methane-producing cattle manure. Initially identified as Bacteroides xylanolyticus, this species was later reclassified as H. xylanolytica in 2019. Although this reclassification found support through Genome blast Distance Phylogeny analysis which placed H. xylanolytica X5-1T into the same clade as Hungatella effluvii DSM 24995T, it was contradicted by 16S rRNA gene phylogenetic analysis, which associated it with a set of misnamed Clostridium species later reassigned into the genus Lacrimispora. To ascertain its taxonomic position, comparative analyses were performed to re-examine the relationship between H. xylanolytica X5-1T and all species of the genera Hungatella and Lacrimispora. The ranges of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, average amino acid identity, and percentage of conserved protein prediction values were higher between H. xylanolytica X5-1T and species of the genus Lacrimispora than Hungatella. In addition, H. xylanolytica X5-1T was found to harbour genes and pathways conserved and exclusive to species within the genus Lacrimispora but not Hungatella. Essentially, in both the 16S rRNA gene phylogenetic tree and the core-genome phylogenomic tree, H. xylanolytica X5-1T clustered into the same clade as species of the genus Lacrimispora, distinct from species of the genus Hungatella. It is thus clear that H. xylanolytica X5-1T represents a species within the genus Lacrimispora, which we propose to reclassify as Lacrimispora xylanisolvens nom. nov. Finally, based on the results from the phylogenetic and comparative analyses, the genus Hungatella was transferred to the family Lachnospiraceae.

• Publication year

  2024

• Venue

  International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

• Publication date

  2024-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.006417PMID 38869948
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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