%0 Journal Article %A Joung, Yochan %A Song, Jaeho %A Lee, Kiyoung %A Oh, Hyun-Myung %A Joh, Kiseong %A Cho, Jang-Cheon %T Soonwooa buanensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from seawater %D 2010 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 60 %N 9 %P 2061-2065 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.017707-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-negative, non-motile, non-gliding, strictly aerobic, pale yellow colony-forming, rod-shaped bacterial strain, designated HM0024T, was isolated from coastal seawater of the Yellow Sea and subjected to a polyphasic taxonomy study. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities, strain HM0024T was most closely related to Chryseobacterium balustinum LMG 8329T (94.4 %), Chryseobacterium scophthalmum LMG 13028T (94.4 %), Chryseobacterium piscium LMG 23089T (94.3 %) and Elizabethkingia meningoseptica ATCC 13253T (94.0 %) and shared less than 92 % sequence similarity with other members of the family Flavobacteriaceae. Phylogenetic analyses showed that strain HM0024T formed an independent phyletic line of descent within the family Flavobacteriaceae. The DNA G+C content of the strain was 29.6 mol% and its major cellular fatty acids (>10 %) were iso-C15 : 0, iso-C17 : 0 3-OH, iso-C17 : 1 ω7c and summed feature 3 (C16 : 1 ω6c and/or C16 : 1 ω7c). The major isoprenoid quinone was MK-6 and the major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine and several aminolipids. Strain HM0024T was differentiated from phylogenetically related members of the family by having lower DNA G+C content, larger proportions of summed feature 3, anteiso-C15 : 0 and iso-C16 : 0 3-OH and particular phenotypic characteristics. On the basis of phenotypic and phylogenetic data, strain HM0024T is classified as a representative of a novel genus and species, for which the name Soonwooa buanensis gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Soonwooa buanensis is HM0024T (=KCTC 22689T =CECT 7503T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.017707-0