title: Chryseobacterium nepalense sp. nov., isolated from oil-contaminated soil.
abstract: During the study of hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria in the oil-contaminated soil of Biratnagar, Morang, Nepal, a yellow-coloured, Gram-staining-negative, aerobic, non-motile, and rod-shaped bacterium, designated strain C-5-3T, was isolated. This strain was characterized taxonomically by a polyphasic approach. Based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, strain C-5-3T belonged to the genus Chryseobacterium and was closely related to Chryseobacterium profundimaris DY46T (98.19 % sequence similarity), Chryseobacterium takakiae AG1-2T (98.15 % sequence similarity), Chryseobacterium taiwanense BCRC 17412T (98.14 % sequence similarity), Chryseobacterium camelliae THG C4-1T (97.73 % sequence similarity) and Chryseobacterium hispalense DSM 25574T (97.60 % sequence similarity). The predominant respiratory quinone was menaquinone-6, and phosphatidylethanolamine was the major polar lipid. The predominant fatty acids of strain C-5-3T were iso-C15 : 0, summed feature 3 (C16 : 1ω7c and/or C16 : 1ω6c), iso-C17 : 0 3-OH and summed feature 9 (iso- C17 : 1ω9c and/or C16 : 0 10-methyl). The genomic DNA G+C content of this novel strain was 38.6 mol%. The DNA-DNA relatedness between strain C-5-3T and Chryseobacterium profundimaris JCM 19801T, C. takakiae DSM 26898T, C. taiwanense KACC 13400T, C. camelliae KACC 16985T and C. hispalense DSM 25574T was 53.3, 42.7, 47.3, 33.0 and 28.0 %, respectively. The morphological, physiological, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic analyses clearly distinguished this strain from its closest phylogenetic neighbours. Thus, strain C-5-3T represents a novel species of the genus Chryseobacterium, for which the name Chryseobacterium nepalense sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is C-5-3T (=KEMB 9005-411T=KACC 18907T=JCM 31469T).
authors.affiliation: Department of Life Science, College of Natural Sciences, Kyonggi University, Suwon, Gyeonggi-Do 16227, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Dhiraj Kumar
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Chaudhary
authors.affiliation: Department of Life Science, College of Natural Sciences, Kyonggi University, Suwon, Gyeonggi-Do 16227, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jaisoo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D001482:Base Composition; D045247:Chryseobacterium / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000737:chemistry; D009390:Nepal; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D059392:Petroleum Pollution; D010714:Phosphatidylethanolamines / Q000737:chemistry; D010802:Phylogeny; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012988:Soil Microbiology; D024482:Vitamin K 2 / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D005227:Fatty Acids; D010714:Phosphatidylethanolamines; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; D024482:Vitamin K 2; C483858:phosphatidylethanolamine; C042455:menaquinone 6