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A Gram-staining positive, non-spore forming, non-pigmented and non-motile bacterium, designated strain NCCP-1664T, was isolated from Cholistan desert, Pakistan. Cells of strain NCCP-1664T were strictly aerobic, catalase positive and oxidase negative with a rod to coccus growth cycle and can grow at pH 6.0–9.0 (optimum pH 7–8) at 28–45 °C (optimum 37 °C) and could tolerate 0–16% NaCl (optimum 2%). Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that strain NCCP-1664T belongs to the family Micrococcaceae and was related to members of the genus Arthrobacter having highest sequence similarities with Arthrobacter ginkgonis (98.9%), A. halodurans (97.7%) and A. oryzae (97.1%) and less than 97% with other related taxa. DNA–DNA relatedness values of strain NCCP-1664T with above mentioned type strains were found to be less than 54%, whereas digital DDH and average nucleotide identity (ANI) values with A. oryzae were 20.9 and of 74.3%, respectively. DNA G + C content of strain NCCP-1664T was 70.0 mol%. Chemotaxonomic data of strain NCCP-1664T showed the peptidoglycan type as A3αl-Lys–l -Ala; menaquinones as MK-9(H2) (67%), MK-8(H2) (32%) and MK-7(H2) (1%), major fatty acids as anteiso -C15:0 (51.2%), anteiso-C17:0 (9.6%) and C18:1ω9c (6.9%) and polar lipids profile comprising of diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylinositol, digalactosyldiacylglycerol, small amounts of monogalactosyldiacylglycerol, trimannosyldiacylglycerol and three unidentified lipids. The phylogenomic analyses along with chemotaxonomic data, physiological, biochemical characteristics allowed to describe it as representative of a novel genus, for which the name Zafaria cholistanensis gen. nov. sp. nov. is proposed with the type strain NCCP-1664T (= DSM 29936T = KCTC 39549T). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chemotaxonomic data of strain NCCP-1664 SP T sp showed peptidoglycan type as A3 l-Lys - l-Ala (A11.4); menaquinones as MK-9(H SB 2 sb ) (67%), MK-8(H SB 2 sb ) (32%) and MK-7(H SB 2 sb ) (1%) and polar lipids profile comprising of diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylinositol, digalactosyldiacylglycerol, small amounts of monogalactosyldiacylglycerol, trimannosyldiacylglycerol and three unidentified lipids. The bio-project, bio-sample and whole-genome sequences of strain NCCP-1664 SP T sp have been deposited to DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the accession numbers PRJDB8509, SAMD00178857 and BKDJ01000000, respectively. [Extracted from the article]

The mangrove ecosystem is the world's fourth most productive ecosystem in terms of service value and offering rich biological resources. Microorganisms play vital roles in these ecological processes, thus researching the mangroves-microbiota is crucial for a deeper comprehension of mangroves dynamics. Amplicon sequencing that targeted V4 region of 16S rRNA gene was employed to profile the microbial diversities and community compositions of 19 soil samples, which were collected from the rhizosphere of 3 plant species (i.e., Avicennia marina, Ceriops tagal, and Rhizophora mucronata) in the mangrove forests of Lasbela coast, Pakistan. A total of 67 bacterial phyla were observed from three mangroves species, and these taxa were classified into 188 classes, 453 orders, 759 families, and 1327 genera. We found that Proteobacteria (34.9-38.4%) and Desulfobacteria (7.6-10.0%) were the dominant phyla followed by Chloroflexi (6.6-7.3%), Gemmatimonadota (5.4-6.8%), Bacteroidota (4.3-5.5%), Planctomycetota (4.4-4.9%) and Acidobacteriota (2.7-3.4%), Actinobacteriota (2.5-3.3%), and Crenarchaeota (2.5-3.3%). After considering the distribution of taxonomic groups, we prescribe that the distinctions in bacterial community composition and diversity are ascribed to the changes in physicochemical attributes of the soil samples (i.e., electrical conductivity (EC e ), pH, total organic matter (OM), total organic carbon (OC), available phosphorus (P), and extractable potassium (CaCO 3 ). The findings of this study indicated a high-level species diversity in Pakistani mangroves. The outcomes may also aid in the development of effective conservation policies for mangrove ecosystems, which have been hotspots for anthropogenic impacts in Pakistan. To our knowledge, this is the first microbial research from a Pakistani mangrove forest., (© 2023. Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i.)

Objectives: Here we describe the first draft genome analysis of a CRISPR-carrying, multidrug-resistant, candidate novel Pseudomonas sp. NCCP-436 T isolated from faeces of a neonatal diarrhoeic calf., Methods: The genome of strain NCCP-436 T was sequenced using an Illumina NovaSeq PE150 platform and analysed using various bioinformatic tools. The virulence factors and resistome were identified using PATRIC and CARD servers, while CGView Server was used to construct a circular genome map. Antimicrobial susceptibility was determined by the disk diffusion technique., Results: The draft genome of strain NCCP-436 T contains 43 contigs with a total genome size of 3,683,517 bp (61.4% GC content). There are 3,452 predicted genes, including 60 tRNAs, 7 rRNAs and 12 sRNAs. CRISPR analysis revealed two CRISPR arrays with lengths of 1103 bp and 867 bp. Strain NCCP-436 T was highly resistant to fluoroquinolone, β-lactam, cephalosporin, aminoglycoside, penicillin, rifamycin, macrolide, glycopeptide, trimethoprim/sulfonamide and tetracycline antibiotic classes. Additionally, 22 antibiotic resistance genes, 313 virulence genes and 253 pathogen-host interactor genes were predicted. Comparison of the average nucleotide identity and digital DNA-DNA hybridisation values with the closely-related strain Pseudomonas khazarica (TBZ2) was found to be 82.08% and 34.90%, respectively, illustrating strain NCCP-436 T as a potentially new species of Pseudomonas., Conclusion: Substantial number of antibiotic resistance and virulence genes and homology with human pathogens were predicted, exposing the pathogenic and zoonotic potential of strain NCCP-436 T to public health. These findings may be used to better understand the genomic epidemiological features and drug resistance mechanisms of pathogenic Pseudomonas spp. in Pakistan., (Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)