%0 Journal Article %A Ueda, Junko %A Yamamoto, Shuichi %A Kurosawa, Norio %T Paenibacillusthermoaerophilus sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic bacterium isolated from compost %D 2013 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 63 %N Pt_9 %P 3330-3335 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.048090-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A rod-shaped, endospore-forming, Gram-reaction-positive bacterium, designated strain TC22-2bT, was isolated from compost in Tochigi, Japan. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that the strain belonged to a cluster comprising species of the genus Paenibacillus and was most closely related to the type strain of Paenibacillus elgii (93.4 % similarity). The major cellular fatty acids were C16:0 (25.5 %), iso-C16:0 (23.6 %) and anteiso-C15:0 (21.5 %). The predominant menaquinone was MK-7. The major polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylethanolamine. The diamino acid found in the cell wall peptidoglycan was meso-diaminopimelic acid, and the DNA G+C content was 59.1 mol%. The results of physiological and biochemical tests enabled the phenotypic differentiation of strain TC22-2bT from the most closely related species with validly published names. Phylogenetic and phenotypic evidence reveals that strain TC22-2bT represents a novel species of the genus Paenibacillus , for which the name Paenibacillus thermoaerophilus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of the novel species is TC22-2bT ( = DSM 26310T  = JCM 18657T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.048090-0