%0 Journal Article %A Lee, Yunho %A Jeon, Che Ok %T Paraburkholderia aromaticivorans sp. nov., an aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium, isolated from gasoline-contaminated soil %D 2018 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 68 %N 4 %P 1251-1257 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002661 %K taxonomy %K Paraburkholderia aromaticivorans %K gasoline-contaminated soil %K aromatic hydrocarbon %K new taxa %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-stain-negative, facultatively aerobic, aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium, designated strain BN5T, was isolated from gasoline-contaminated soil. Cells were motile and slightly curved rods with a single flagellum showing catalase and oxidase activities. Growth was observed at 20–37 °C (optimum, 25–30 °C), pH 3–7 (optimum, pH 5–6) and 0–2 % NaCl (optimum, 0 %). Ubiquinone-8 was the predominant respiratory quinone. The major fatty acids were C16 : 0, cyclo-C19 : 0 ω8c and summed feature 8 (comprising C18 : 1ω7c and/or C18 : 1ω6c). Diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, an unidentified phosphoamino lipid, three unidentified amino lipids and eight unidentified lipids were the identified polar lipids. The DNA G+C content was 62.93 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain BN5T formed a phylogenic lineage with members of the genus Paraburkholderia and showed the highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities to Paraburkholderia phytofirmans PsJNT (99.4 %), Paraburkholderia dipogonis DL7T (98.8 %) and Paraburkholderia insulsa PNG-AprilT (98.8 %). The average nucleotide identity and in silico DNA–DNA hybridization (DDH) values between strain BN5T and P. phytofirmans PsJNT were 88.5 and 36.5 %, respectively. The DDH values for strain BN5T with P. dipogonis LMG 28415T and P. insulsa DSM 28142T were 41.0±4.9 % (reciprocal, 33.0±4.3 %) and 47.1±6.6 % (reciprocal, 51.7±5.4 %), respectively. Based on its physiological, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic features, we conclude that strain BN5T is a novel species of the genus Paraburkholderia , for which the name Paraburkholderia aromaticivorans sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is BN5T (=KACC 19419T=JCM 32303T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002661