%0 Journal Article %A Lim, Jee-Min %A Jeon, Che Ok %A Park, Dong-Jin %A Xu, Li-Hua %A Jiang, Cheng-Lin %A Kim, Chang-Jin %T Paenibacillus xinjiangensis sp. nov., isolated from Xinjiang province in China %D 2006 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 56 %N 11 %P 2579-2582 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64465-0 %K NJ, neighbour-joining %K ML, maximum likelihood %K MP, maximum parsimony %I Microbiology Society, %X Strain B538T is a Gram-positive, motile, rod-shaped bacterium, which was isolated from Xinjiang province in China. This organism grew optimally at 30–35 °C and pH 8.0–8.5. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain B538T belonged to the genus Paenibacillus and chemotaxonomic data (DNA G+C content, 47.0 mol%; major isoprenoid quinone, MK-7; cell wall type, A1γ meso-diaminopimelic acid; major fatty acids, anteiso-C15 : 0 and C16 : 0) supported affiliation of the isolate with the genus Paenibacillus. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analyses showed that the isolate was most closely related to Paenibacillus glycanilyticus DS-1T, with 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity of 98.1 %; sequence similarities to other members of the genus Paenibacillus used in the phylogenetic tree were less than 96.5 %. The DNA–DNA relatedness between strain B538T and P. glycanilyticus DS-1T was about 8.0 %. On the basis of physiological and molecular properties, strain B538T (=KCTC 3952T=DSM 16970T) is proposed as the type strain of a novel species within the genus Paenibacillus, for which the name Paenibacillus xinjiangensis sp. nov. is proposed. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.64465-0