%0 Journal Article %A Lau, Ken W. K. %A Ren, Jianping %A Wai, Natalie L. M. %A Qian, Pei-Yuan %A Wong, Po-Keung %A Wu, Madeline %T Lishizhenia caseinilytica gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium of the phylum Bacteroidetes %D 2006 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 56 %N 10 %P 2317-2322 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64415-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A light-orange, aerobic bacterium, strain UST040201-001T, that degrades casein, gelatin and Tween 20, was isolated in February 2004 from a sand-filtered seawater sample from Port Shelter, Hong Kong SAR, China. The strain possessed menaquinone-6 and its 16S rRNA gene sequence shared only 90.1 % similarity with that of Brumimicrobium glaciale IC156T. Phylogenetic analysis showed that UST040201-001T formed a distinct lineage within the family Cryomorphaceae. Its ecophysiological and biochemical characteristics suggest that this strain represents a novel genus and species within the phylum Bacteroidetes. The name Lishizhenia caseinilytica gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Lishizhenia caseinilytica is UST040201-001T (=NRRL B-41434T=JCM 13821T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.64415-0