%0 Journal Article %A Whang, Kyung-Sook %A Lee, Jae-Chan %A Lee, Hae-Ran %A Han, Song-Ih %A Chung, Sang-Ho %T Terriglobustenax sp. nov., an exopolysaccharide-producing acidobacterium isolated from rhizosphere soil of a medicinal plant %D 2014 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 64 %N Pt_2 %P 431-437 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.053769-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X An exopolysaccharide-producing bacterium, designated strain DRP 35T, was isolated from the rhizosphere soil of a medicinal herb, Angelica sinensis, at Geumsan in Korea. Cells were Gram-staining-negative, non-motile, catalase-positive and oxidase-negative short rods. The isolate grew aerobically from 15 to 45 °C (optimum 30 °C), pH 3.5–7.0 (optimum pH 5.0) and in the presence of 0–1.0 % (w/v) NaCl. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strain DRP 35T belongs to the genus Terriglobus in the phylum Acidobacteria with a sequence similarity of 97.2 % and 97.0 % to Terriglobus saanensis SP1PR4T and Terriglobus roseus KBS63T, respectively. The genomic DNA G+C content was 62.1 mol%. DNA–DNA relatedness between strain DRP 35T and the type strains of the other species of the genus Terriglobus , T. saanensis SP1PR4T and T. roseus KBS63T, were 24.6 and 17.2 %, respectively. The predominant menaquinone was MK-8. Major fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0, C16 : 1ω7c and C16 : 0. The polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, unidentified aminophospholipid and unknown phospholipids. On the basis of polyphasic analysis from this study, strain DRP 35T represents a novel species of the genus Terriglobus for which the name Terriglobus tenax sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is DRP 35T ( = KACC 16474T = NBRC 109677T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.053769-0