%0 Journal Article %A Zhang, Jun %A Lang, Zhi-Fei %A Zheng, Jin-Wei %A Hang, Bao-Jian %A Duan, Xiao-Qin %A He, Jian %A Li, Shun-Peng %T Sphingobium jiangsuense sp. nov., a 3-phenoxybenzoic acid-degrading bacterium isolated from a wastewater treatment system %D 2012 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 62 %N Pt_4 %P 800-805 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.029827-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A non-sporulating, non-motile, catalase- and oxidase-positive, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterial strain, designated BA-3T, was isolated from activated sludge of a wastewater treatment facility. The strain was able to degrade about 95 % of 100 mg 3-phenoxybenzoic acid l−1 within 2 days of incubation. Growth occurred in the presence of 0–2 % (w/v) NaCl [optimum, 0.5 % (w/v) NaCl], at pH 5.5–9.0 (optimum, pH 7.0) and at 10–37 °C (optimum, 28 °C). Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequence comparisons revealed that strain BA-3T was a member of the genus Sphingobium ; it showed highest gene sequence similarity to Sphingobium qiguonii X23T (98.2 %), and similarities of <97.0 % with strains of other Sphingobium species. The polar lipid pattern, the presence of spermidine and ubiquinone Q-10, the predominance of summed feature 8 (C18 : 1ω6c and/or C18 : 1ω7c) in the cellular fatty acid profile and the DNA G+C content also supported affiliation of the isolate to the genus Sphingobium . Strain BA-3T showed low DNA–DNA relatedness values (21.3±0.8 %) with Sphingobium qiguonii X23T. Based on phenotypic, genotypic and phylogenetic data, strain BA-3T represents a novel species of the genus Sphingobium , for which the name Sphingobium jiangsuense sp. nov. is proposed; the type strain is BA-3T ( = CCTCC AB 2010217T = KCTC 23196T = KACC 16433T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.029827-0