@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.053090-0, author = "Fukui, Youhei and Abe, Mahiko and Kobayashi, Masahiro and Shimada, Yushi and Saito, Hiroaki and Oikawa, Hiroshi and Yano, Yutaka and Satomi, Masataka", title = "Sulfitobacter porphyrae sp. nov., isolated from the red alga Porphyra yezoensis", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2014", volume = "64", number = "Pt_2", pages = "438-443", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.053090-0", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.053090-0", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, halophilic bacteria, designated SCM-1T, LCM10-1 and CTBL-B-147, were isolated from modified half-strength SWM-III medium, PES medium and thalli after laboratory cultivation of a red alga, Porphyra yezoensis. Phylogenetic analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that the new isolates were affiliated to the genus Sulfitobacter of the class Alphaproteobacteria , and the 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity of the new isolates with the closest related species, Sulfitobacter mediterraneus CH-B427T, was 98.8 %. The DNA G+C contents of the new isolates were in the range of 61.4–62.3 mol%. DNA–DNA relatedness values of strain SCM-1T with other type strains of the genus Sulfitobacter were less than 15.9 %. The new isolates contained Q-10 as the predominant ubiquinone, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylglycerol, an unidentified amino lipid and an unidentified lipid as the main polar lipids, and C18 : 1ω7c, C19 : 1ω7c and C16 : 0 as the major fatty acids (>10 % of the total). Strain SCM-1T could be differentiated from Sulfitobacter mediterraneus JCM 21792T by 35 morphological and phenotypic characteristics. On the basis of the phylogenetic, genetic and phenotypic properties of the new isolates, the name Sulfitobacter porphyrae sp. nov. is proposed, with strain SCM-1T ( = LMG 27110T = NBRC 109054T) as the type strain.", }