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Abstract

A bacterial strain designated Orc-4 was isolated from a freshwater spring in Taiwan and characterized using the polyphasic taxonomic approach. Cells of strain Orc-4 were facultatively anaerobic, Gram-reaction-negative, poly-β-hydroxybutyrate-accumulating, non-motile rods surrounded by a thick capsule and forming cream–white colonies. Growth occurred at 15–40 °C (optimum, 25–30 °C), at pH 6.0–9.0 (optimum, pH 7.0) and with 0–1 % NaCl (optimum, 0–0.5 %). Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain Orc-4 belonged to the genus within the family of the class and its most closely related neighbour was JS43 with sequence similarity of 97.8 %. Strain Orc-4 contained Cω7 as the predominant fatty acid. The major respiratory quinone was Q-10. The DNA G+C content of the genomic DNA was 63.5 mol%. The polar lipid profile consisted of a mixture of phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylcholine, one uncharacterized aminolipid and several uncharacterized phospholipids. The DNA–DNA relatedness of strain Orc-4 with respect to recognized species of the genus was less than 48 %. On the basis of the genotypic, chemotaxonomic and phenotypic data, strain Orc-4 represents a novel species of the genus , for which the name sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is Orc-4 ( = BCRC 80378 = LMG 26667 = KCTC 23714).

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