title: Litoreibacter ponti sp. nov., isolated from seawater.
abstract: A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-motile and coccoid, ovoid or rod-shaped bacterial strain, designated GJSW-31(T), was isolated from seawater from the South Sea, South Korea. The novel strain grew optimally at 30 °C, at pH 7.0-8.0 and in the presence of 2.0% (w/v) NaCl. Phylogenetic trees, based on 16S rRNA gene sequences, revealed that strain GJSW-31(T) clustered with the type strains of species of the genus Litoreibacter. Strain GJSW-31(T) exhibited 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity values of 95.2-98.5% to the type strains of species of the genus Litoreibacter and sequence similarities of less than 96.18% to type strains of the other species with validly published names. Strain GJSW-31(T) contained Q-10 as the predominant ubiquinone and C(18:1)ω7c as the major fatty acid. The major polar lipids of strain GJSW-31(T) were phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylglycerol, one unidentified lipid and one unidentified aminolipid. The DNA G+C content of strain GJSW-31(T) was 62.5 mol% and its DNA-DNA relatedness values with the type strains of Litoreibacter albidus, Litoreibacter janthinus, Litoreibacter meonggei and Litoreibacter ascidiaceicola were 13-23%. The differential phenotypic properties, together with the phylogenetic and genetic distinctiveness, revealed that strain GJSW-31(T) is separate from other species of the genus Litoreibacter. On the basis of the data presented, strain GJSW-31(T) is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Litoreibacter, for which the name Litoreibacter ponti sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is GJSW-31(T) ( =KCTC 42114(T) =NBRC 110379(T)).
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Sungkyunkwan University, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Sooyeon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Sungkyunkwan University, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Ji-Min
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Microbiological Resource Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), PO Box 115, Yuseong, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Doo-Sang
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Sungkyunkwan University, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jung-Hoon
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Yoon
mesh_terms: D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D001482:Base Composition; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000737:chemistry; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D010802:Phylogeny; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D056910:Republic of Korea; D041902:Rhodobacteraceae / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012623:Seawater / Q000382:microbiology*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014451:Ubiquinone / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D005227:Fatty Acids; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; D014451:Ubiquinone; C024989:coenzyme Q10