@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001788, author = "Lee, Jae-Jin and Park, Su-Jin and Lee, Yeon-Hee and Lee, Seung-Yeol and Ten, Leonid N and Jung, Hee-Young", title = "Hymenobacter aquaticus sp. nov., a radiation-resistant bacterium isolated from a river", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2017", volume = "67", number = "5", pages = "1206-1211", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001788", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001788", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "polyphasic taxonomy", keywords = "Bacteroidetes", keywords = "Hymenobacter", abstract = "A Gram-stain-negative, non-motile, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped, aerobic bacterial strain, designated 16F3PT, was isolated from the Han River, South Korea, and characterized taxonomically using a polyphasic approach. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed 16F3PT to be within the genus Hymenobacter , and most closely related to Hymenobacter chitinivorans Txc1T (98.62 %) and Hymenobacter elongatus VUG-A112T (98.46 %). The phylogenetic distance from other species of the genus Hymenobacter with validly published names was greater than 4 % (i.e. sequence similarity was less than 96.0 %). Chemotaxonomic data also supported the classification of strain 16F3PT within the genus Hymenobacter . C16 : 0 (19.8 %), summed feature 3 (C16 : 1ω7c/C16 : 1ω6c; 15.4 %) and iso-C15 : 0 (13.0 %) were the major fatty acids, MK-7 was the predominant respiratory quinone, and phosphatidylethanolamine was the major polar lipid. The G+C content of the genomic DNA of strain 16F3PT was 61.9 mol%. DNA–DNA hybridization experiments showed that the values for DNA–DNA relatedness between strain 16F3PT and the phylogenetically closest neighbours were below 19 %. On the basis of its phenotypic properties and phylogenetic distinctiveness, strain 16F3PT represents a novel species of the genus Hymenobacter , for which the name Hymenobacter aquaticus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 16F3PT (=KCTC 52194T=JCM 31653T).", }