%0 Journal Article %A Dastager, Syed G. %A Lee, Jae-Chan %A Ju, Yoon-Jung %A Park, Dong-Jin %A Kim, Chang-Jin %T Rubellimicrobium mesophilum sp. nov., a mesophilic, pigmented bacterium isolated from soil %D 2008 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 58 %N 8 %P 1797-1800 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65590-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A pink- to light-reddish-pigmented, aerobic, pointed, budding, mesophilic strain designated MSL-20T was isolated from soil from Bigeum island, Korea. The isolate was Gram-negative. Cells were motile rods without flagella. The temperature and pH for growth were 20–37 °C (optimum 28 °C) and pH 7.0–11.0 (optimum pH 7.0±0.2). Q-10 was the predominant respiratory ubiquinone. The major fatty acids were C16 : 0 (37 %), C18 : 1 ω7c (36 %) and 11-methyl C18 : 1 ω7c (12 %). Phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that Rubellimicrobium thermophilum DSM 16684T was its closest neighbour (95.2 % similarity); the isolate had less than 97.0 % similarity to all species with validly published names. Chemotaxonomic data were determined for this isolate, including peptidoglycan type, diagnostic sugar composition, fatty acid profiles, ubiquinones and polar lipids; the results supported the affiliation of strain MSL-20T to the genus Rubellimicrobium. The DNA G+C content was 72.3 mol%. On the basis of the phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic data, strain MSL-20T represents a novel species of the genus Rubellimicrobium, for which the name Rubellimicrobium mesophilum sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is MSL-20T (=KCTC 22012T =DSM 19309T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.65590-0