%0 Journal Article %A Anil Kumar, P. %A Srinivas, T. N. R. %A Pavan Kumar, P. %A Madhu, S. %A Shivaji, S. %T Nitritalea halalkaliphila gen. nov., sp. nov., an alkaliphilic bacterium of the family ‘Cyclobacteriaceae’, phylum Bacteroidetes %D 2010 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 60 %N 10 %P 2320-2325 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.020230-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A novel Gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-motile bacterium, designated strain LW7T, was isolated from a water sample collected at a depth of 4.5 m from Lonar Lake in Buldhana district, Maharastra, India. The cell suspension was dark-reddish orange due to the presence of carotenoids. The fatty acids were dominated by large amounts of iso-C15 : 0 (59.6 %) and iso-C17 : 0 3-OH (8.9 %). Strain LW7T contained MK-4 and MK-5 as the major respiratory quinones and phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylethanolamine as the major phospholipids. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated that Belliella baltica, a member of family ‘Cyclobacteriaceae’ (phylum Bacteroidetes), is the closest related species, with a sequence similarity of 94.0 % to the type strain. Other members of the family ‘Cyclobacteriaceae’ had sequence similarities of <93.3 %. Based on the above-mentioned phenotypic and phylogenetic characteristics, strain LW7T is proposed as a representative of a new genus and species, Nitritalea halalkaliphila gen. nov., sp. nov. The type strain of Nitritalea halalkaliphila is LW7T (=CCUG 57665T =JCM 15946T =NCCB 100279T). The genomic DNA G+C of strain LW7T is 49 mol%. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.020230-0