%0 Journal Article %A Park, Eun-Jin %A Roh, Seong Woon %A Kim, Min-Soo %A Jung, Mi-Ja %A Shin, Kee-Sun %A Bae, Jin-Woo %T Kocuria koreensis sp. nov., isolated from fermented seafood %D 2010 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 60 %N 1 %P 140-143 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.012310-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-positive, aerobic, non-motile and coccoid actinobacterium, designated P31T, was isolated from a traditional, fermented seafood. The strain was catalase-positive and oxidase-negative. Cells grew in the presence of 0–15.0 % (w/v) NaCl, and at pH 5–10 and 15–37 °C. Major cellular fatty acids were anteiso-C15 : 0, anteiso-C17 : 0 and iso-C16 : 0. Strain P31T contained MK-7 as the predominant menaquinone. The DNA G+C content of the genomic DNA of strain P31T was 65.2 mol%. A phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence indicated that strain P31T was most closely related to Kocuria kristinae DSM 20032T, with 96.9 % similarity, and these two strains clustered together in constructed phylogenetic trees. The DNA–DNA hybridization value between strain P31T and K. kristinae DSM 20032T was 21.1 %. On the basis of the phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic data, it is suggested that strain P31T represents a novel species of the genus Kocuria, for which the name Kocuria koreensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is P31T (=KCTC 19595T=JCM 15915T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.012310-0