RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Liu, Dongmei A1 Jin, Xin A1 Sun, Xuelian A1 Song, Yali A1 Feng, Liling A1 Wang, Gejiao A1 Li, MingshunYR 2016 T1 Sphingomonas faucium sp. nov., isolated from canyon soil JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 66 IS 8 SP 2847 OP 2852 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001064 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A Gram-stain-negative, strictly aerobic, non-motile, yellow, rod-shaped bacterium, designated strain E62-3T, was isolated from soil of Enshi Grand Canyon, Hubei province, PR China. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain E62-3T was most closely related to Sphingomonas laterariae LNB2T. Strain E62-3T exhibited the highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to Sphingosinicella vermicomposti YC7378T (96.0 %), Sphingobium xanthum NL9T (95.8 %), Sphingobium boeckii 469T (95.7 %) and Sphingomonas laterariae LNB2T (95.5 %) within the family Sphingomonadaceae . The major fatty acids (>5 %) of strain E62-3T were C18 : 1ω7c, summed feature 3 (C16 : 1ω7c and/or iso-C15 : 0 2-OH), C16 : 0 and C14 : 0 2-OH. The predominant respiratory quinone and polyamine were ubiquinone Q-10 and homospermidine, respectively. The predominant polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylcholine. The genomic DNA G+C content was 66.4 mol%. The genotypic, chemotaxonomic and phenotypic data revealed that the isolate represents a novel species of the genus Sphingomonas , for which the name Sphingomonas faucium sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is E62-3T (=KCTC 42834T=CCTCC AB 2015300T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001064