%0 Journal Article %A Cao, Shu-Juan %A Qu, Jian-Hang %A Yang, Jin-Shui %A Sun, Qing %A Yuan, Hong-Li %T Halolactibacillus alkaliphilus sp. nov., a moderately alkaliphilic and halophilic bacterium isolated from a soda lake in Inner Mongolia, China, and emended description of the genus Halolactibacillus %D 2008 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 58 %N 9 %P 2169-2173 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65511-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A moderately alkaliphilic and halophilic bacterium was isolated from sediment of Xiarinaoer soda lake located in the Inner Mongolia municipality. This bacterium, designated strain H-5T, was a facultative anaerobe, Gram-positive, rod-shaped and non-motile. Strain H-5T grew in complex medium with 0.5–30 % (w/v) NaCl and at pH 7.5–13. The cell wall peptidoglycan contained meso-diaminopimelic acid. The major isoprenoid quinones found in this strain were MK-9H4 and MK-9H2, and the major cellular fatty acids were C16 : 0 and anteiso-C13 : 0. The DNA G+C content of strain H-5T was 38.3 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain H-5T was located in the genus Halolactibacillus. The 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities between strain H-5T and the type strains of the two recognized species of the genus Halolactibacillus were 98.6 and 98.0 %. The DNA–DNA relatedness values between strain H-5T and the two type strains were 19 and 5 %. Based on the phenotypic and chemotaxonomic data, the phylogenetic analysis and genomic distinctiveness, strain H-5T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Halolactibacillus, for which the name Halolactibacillus alkaliphilus is proposed. The type strain is H-5T (=CGMCC AS 1.6843T=NBRC 103919T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.65511-0