%0 Journal Article %A Takeuchi, Mio %A Katayama, Taiki %A Yamagishi, Takao %A Hanada, Satoshi %A Tamaki, Hideyuki %A Kamagata, Yoichi %A Oshima, Kenshiro %A Hattori, Masahira %A Marumo, Katsumi %A Nedachi, Munetomo %A Maeda, Hiroto %A Suwa, Yuichi %A Sakata, Susumu %T Methyloceanibacter caenitepidi gen. nov., sp. nov., a facultatively methylotrophic bacterium isolated from marine sediments near a hydrothermal vent %D 2014 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 64 %N Pt_2 %P 462-468 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.053397-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A moderately thermophilic, methanol-oxidizing bacterium (strain Gela4T) was isolated from methane-utilizing mixed-culture originating from marine sediment near a hydrothermal vent. Phylogenetic analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strain Gela4T was closely related to members of the genus ‘Methyloligella’ (94.7 % similarity) within the class Alphaproteobacteria . Strain Gela4T was a Gram‐staining‐negative and aerobic organism. Cells were rod-shaped and non-motile. The temperature range for growth of strain Gela4T was 19–43 °C (optimal growth at 35 °C). Strain Gela4T tolerated up to 9 % NaCl with an optimum at 1 %. The organism was a facultative methylotroph that could utilize methanol, methylamine, trimethylamine and a variety of multi-carbon compounds. The major cellular fatty acid and major respiratory quinone were C18 : 1ω7c and ubiquinone-10, respectively. The predominant phospholipids were phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylethanolamine. The DNA G+C content was 63.9 mol%. On the basis of the morphological, physiological, biochemical and genetic information, a novel genus and species, Methyloceanibacter caenitepidi is proposed, with Gela4T ( = NBRC 109540T = DSM 27242T) as the type strain. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.053397-0