%0 Journal Article %A Habib, Neeli %A Khan, Inam Ullah %A Hussain, Firasat %A Zhou, En-Min %A Xiao, Min %A Dong, Lei %A Zhi, Xiao-Yang %A Li, Wen-Jun %T Meiothermus luteus sp. nov., a slightly thermophilic bacterium isolated from a hot spring %D 2017 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 67 %N 8 %P 2910-2914 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002040 %K slightly thermophilic %K hot spring %K Meiothermus luteus sp. nov %I Microbiology Society, %X A slightly thermophilic, aerobic bacterium, designated YIM 72257T, was isolated from a sediment sample taken from a hot spring in Tengchong county, Yunnan province, south-west China. The isolate was Gram-stain-negative, non-sporulating and forms non-motile rods, appearing in chains. The isolate grew at 50–65 °C, pH 6.0–9.0 and with 0.5–1 % NaCl (w/v). 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that strain YIM 72257T was most closely related to Meiothermus cateniformans LY1T (95.6 %), Meiothermus ruber DSM 1279T (95.1 %) and Meiothermus taiwanensis WR-30T (94.6 %). The genomic DNA G+C content of strain YIM 72257T was 62.6 mol%. The main cellular fatty acids (>5 %) were anteiso-C15 : 0, anteiso-C17 : 0, iso-C16 : 0, iso-C17 : 0, iso-C15 : 0 and C16 : 0. The polar lipids consisted of an uncharacterized phospholipid and two glycolipids. Based on phenotypic, phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic characteristics, strain YIM 72257T is proposed to be a representative of a novel species of the genus Meiothermus , for which the name Meiothermus luteus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is YIM 72257T (=KCTC 52599T=CCTCC AB 2017100T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002040