%0 Journal Article %A Huang, Yao %A Wei, Ziyan %A Danzeng, Wangmu %A Kim, Myong Chol %A Zhu, Guoxin %A Zhang, Yumin %A Liu, Zuobing %A Peng, Fang %T Sphingomonas antarctica sp. nov., isolated from Antarctic tundra soil %D 2017 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 67 %N 10 %P 4064-4068 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002253 %K (Alpha)proteobacteria %K antarctica %K Sphingomonas %I Microbiology Society, %X Strain 200T, isolated from a soil sample taken from Antarctic tundra soil around Zhongshan Station, was found to be a Gram-stain-negative, yellow-pigmented, catalase-positive, oxidase-negative, non-motile, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped and aerobic bacterium. Strain 200T grew optimally at pH 7.0 and in the absence of NaCl on R2A. Its optimum growth temperature was 20 °C. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strain 200T belonged to the genus Sphingomonas . Strain 200T showed the highest sequence similarities to Sphingomonas kyeonggiense THG-DT81T (95.1 %) and Sphingomonas molluscorum KMM 3882T (95.1 %). Chemotaxonomic analysis showed that strain 200T had characteristics typical of members of the genus Sphingomonas . Ubiquinone 10 was the predominant respiratory quinone and sym-homospermidine was the polyamine. The major polar lipids were sphingoglycolipid, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylcholine. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was determined to be 60.9 mol%. Strain 200T contained C16 : 0 (31.6 %), summed feature 8 (comprising C18 : 1ω7c and/or C18 : 1ω6c, 22.7 %), summed feature 3 (comprising C16 : 1ω7c and/or C16 : 1ω6c, 11.2 %), C18 : 0 (7.8 %) and C14 : 0 2OH (6.7 %) as the major cellular fatty acids. On the basis of phylogenetic analysis, and physiological and biochemical characterization, strain 200T should be classified as representing a novel species of the genus Sphingomonas , for which the name Sphingomonas antarctica sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 200T (=CCTCC AB 2016064T=KCTC 52488T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002253