%0 Journal Article %A Xu, Lin %A Xu, Xue-Wei %A Meng, Fan-Xu %A Huo, Ying-Yi %A Oren, Aharon %A Yang, Jun-Yi %A Wang, Chun-Sheng %T Halomonas zincidurans sp. nov., a heavy-metal-tolerant bacterium isolated from the deep-sea environment %D 2013 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 63 %N Pt_11 %P 4230-4236 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.051656-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, rod-like, motile by peritrichous flagella and moderately halophilic bacterium, designated strain B6T, was isolated a deep-sea sediment collected from the South Atlantic Ocean. The isolate grew with 0.5–15 % (w/v) NaCl, at 4–37 °C and pH 5.0–8.5 and showed a high tolerance to zinc, manganese, cobalt and copper ions. The major fatty acids were C16 : 0, C19 : 0 cyclo ω8c, C12 : 0 3-OH and C12 : 0. The predominant ubiquinone was Q-9. The genomic DNA G+C content was 61.1 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene comparisons indicated that strain B6T belonged to the genus Halomonas , and the closest relative was Halomonas xinjiangensis TRM 0175T (96.1 %). Based upon the phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and genetic data, strain B6T represents a novel species from the genus Halomonas , for which the name Halomonas zincidurans sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is B6T ( = CGMCC 1.12450T = JCM 18472T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.051656-0