title: Sphingobacterium gobiense sp. nov., isolated from soil of the Gobi Desert.
abstract: A Gram-stain-negative, short rod-shaped, non-motile, non-spore-forming bacterial strain, designated H7(T), was isolated from the Gobi desert, Xinjiang Province of China. The temperature, NaCl and pH ranges for growth were 8-40 °C (optimum 30 °C), 0-5 % (w/v) NaCl and pH 6-10 (optimum pH 7), respectively. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain H7(T) belonged to the genus Sphingobacterium and showed highest sequence similarity (91 %) to Sphingobacterium composti DSM 18850. The genomic DNA G+C content was 44.3 mol%. MK-7 was identified as the predominant respiratory quinone. Strain H7(T) contained C16 : 1ω7c and/or C16 : 1ω6c, iso-C15 : 0 and iso-C17 : 0 3-OH as major fatty acids. These data support the affiliation of strain H7(T) to the genus Sphingobacterium while phenotypic data indicated it is a representative strain of a novel species for which the name Sphingobacterium gobiense sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is H7(T) ( = ACCC 05757(T) = KCTC 32293(T)).
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 Zhongguancun Nandajie, Beijing 100081, PR China.|State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, 712100 Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 Zhongguancun Nandajie, Beijing 100081, PR China.
authors.forename: Zhengfu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 Zhongguancun Nandajie, Beijing 100081, PR China.
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 Zhongguancun Nandajie, Beijing 100081, PR China.
authors.forename: Wenna
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 Zhongguancun Nandajie, Beijing 100081, PR China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, 712100 Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
authors.forename: Gehong
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wei
mesh_terms: D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D001482:Base Composition; D002681:China; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D003889:Desert Climate; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000737:chemistry; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012988:Soil Microbiology; D045249:Sphingobacterium / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D024482:Vitamin K 2 / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D005227:Fatty Acids; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; D024482:Vitamin K 2; C062629:menaquinone 7