%0 Journal Article %A Choi, Hyun-Ah %A Lee, Sang-Seob %T Sphingobacterium kyonggiense sp. nov., isolated from chloroethene-contaminated soil, and emended descriptions of Sphingobacterium daejeonense and Sphingobacterium mizutaii %D 2012 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 62 %N Pt_11 %P 2559-2564 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.024737-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-reaction-negative, strictly aerobic, rod-shaped, non-motile strain, designated 2-1-2T, was isolated from perchloroethylene/trichloroethene-contaminated soil in Suwon, South Korea. A polyphasic approach was used to study the taxonomic position of strain 2-1-2T. Strain 2-1-2T showed highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities to Sphingobacterium daejeonense TR6-04T (97.9 %) and Sphingobacterium mizutaii ATCC 33299T (97.1 %); sequence similarities to other Sphingobacterium species were less than 93.0 %. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain 2-1-2T belonged to the clade formed by members of the genus Sphingobacterium in the family Sphingobacteriaceae . The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 36.6 mol%. Strain 2-1-2T showed the typical chemotaxonomic features of the genus Sphingobacterium , with the presence of a ceramide phosphorylethanolamine (CerPE-2) as the major ceramide, menaquinone 7 (MK-7) as the predominant respiratory quinone and iso-C15 : 0, iso-C17 : 0 3-OH and summed feature 3 (comprising iso-C15 : 0 2-OH and/or C16 : 1ω7c) as the major fatty acids. On the basis of phylogenetic inference, fatty acid profile and other phenotypic properties, and DNA–DNA relatedness, strain 2-1-2T represents a novel species of the genus Sphingobacterium , for which the name Sphingobacterium kyonggiense sp. nov. is proposed; the type strain is 2-1-2T ( = KEMC 2241-005T = JCM 16704T). Emended descriptions of Sphingobacterium daejeonense and Sphingobacterium mizutaii are also proposed. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.024737-0