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Abstract
A Gram-stain-negative and facultatively anaerobic bacterial strain, designated GUOT, was isolated from surface water collected from the South China Sea. Cells were non-flagellate, yellow, non-spore-forming and rod-shaped. The 16S rRNA gene sequence comparisons with species in the genus Arenibacter showed that strain GUOT shares the highest similarity of 97.5 % with Arenibacter echinorum and Arenibacter palladensis . Average nucleotide identity and digital DNA–DNA hybridization values between strain GUOT and its related type strains were 77.1–78.4% and 20.8–26.2 % respectively. Growth of strain GUOT occurred at 15–50°C (optimum, 20–25°C), pH 5–7.5 (pH 6) and in media containing 0–7 % NaCl (optimum, 0–1 %). Cells contained methanol-soluble yellow-coloured pigments but flexirubin-type pigments were absent. The major fatty acids (>5 %) were iso-C17 : 0 3-OH, iso-C15 : 0, anteiso-C15 : 0, C16 : 0, summed feature 3, iso-C15 : 1 G and iso-C15 : 0 3-OH. The dominant polar lipids comprised phosphatidylethanolamine and some unidentified polar lipids. The main respiratory quinone was menaquinone-6. The DNA G+C content of strain GUOT was 40.1 %. Based on the presented data, we consider strain GUOT to represent a novel species of the genus Arenibacter , for which the name Arenibacter aquaticus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is GUOT (=KCTC 62629T=MCCC 1K03559T)
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Funding
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Key Laboratory of Global Change and Marine-Atmospheric Chemistry
(Award GCMAC1507)
- Principle Award Recipient: Rui Zhang
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the Senior User Project of RV KEXUE
(Award KEXUE2018G07)
- Principle Award Recipient: Rui Zhang
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National Natural Science Foundation of China
(Award 41861144018)
- Principle Award Recipient: Not Applicable
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National Natural Science Foundation of China
(Award 41706161)
- Principle Award Recipient: Not Applicable
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Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology
(Award QNLM2016ORP0303)
- Principle Award Recipient: Not Applicable