RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Carrasco, I. J. A1 Márquez, M. C. A1 Xue, Y. A1 Ma, Y. A1 Cowan, D. A. A1 Jones, B. E. A1 Grant, W. D. A1 Ventosa, A.YR 2007 T1 Bacillus chagannorensis sp. nov., a moderate halophile from a soda lake in Inner Mongolia, China JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 57 IS 9 SP 2084 OP 2088 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65162-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A Gram-positive, moderately halophilic, spore-forming bacterium, designated strain CG-15T, was isolated from a soda lake, Lake Chagannor, in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. The cells were found to be motile short rods with ellipsoidal, terminal and deforming endospores. Strain CG-15T, a facultatively anaerobic bacterium, grew at pH 5.8–11.0 (optimally at pH 8.5), at 6–40 °C (optimally at 37 °C) and at salinities of 3–20 % (w/v) total salts (optimally at 7 % w/v). On the basis of the results of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, strain CG-15T was shown to belong to the genus Bacillus (phylum Firmicutes), showing the greatest phylogenetic similarity with respect to Bacillus saliphilus (96.0 %). The DNA G+C content of the novel isolate was found to be 53.8 mol%. The major cellular fatty acids of strain CG-15T were anteiso-C15 : 0, iso-C15 : 0 and anteiso-C17 : 0, and its polar lipids consisted of diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine and three different unidentified phospholipids. The analysis of the quinones showed that MK-7 was the major menaquinone. The peptidoglycan type was A1γ, with meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid. On the basis of the data from this polyphasic study, strain CG-15T represents a novel species of the genus Bacillus, for which the name Bacillus chagannorensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is CG-15T (=CCM 7371T=CECT 7153T=CGMCC 1.6292T=DSM 18086T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.65162-0