RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Liao, Xianzhi A1 Lai, Qiliang A1 Yang, Junpeng A1 Dong, Chunming A1 Li, Dengfeng A1 Shao, ZongzeYR 2020 T1 Alcanivorax sediminis sp. nov., isolated from deep-sea sediment of the Pacific Ocean JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 70 IS 7 SP 4280 OP 4284 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004285 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A taxonomic study was carried out on strain PA15-N-34T, which was isolated from deep-sea sediment of Pacific Ocean. The bacterium was Gram-stain-positive, oxidase- and catalase-positive and rod-shaped. Growth was observed at salinity of 0–15.0% NaCl and at temperatures of 10–45 °C. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strain PA15-N-34T belonged to the genus Alcanivorax , with the highest sequence similarity to Alcanivorax profundi MTEO17T (97.7 %), followed by Alcanivorax nanhaiticus 19 m-6T (97.3 %) and 12 other species of the genus Alcanivorax (93.4 %–97.0 %). The average nucleotide identity and DNA–DNA hybridization values between strain PA15-N-34T and type strains of the genus Alcanivorax were 71.46–81.78% and 18.7–25.2 %, respectively. The principal fatty acids (>10 %) were summed feature 8 (C18 : 1  ω7c and/or C18 : 1  ω6c; 31.2 %), C16 : 0 (25.0 %) and summed feature 3 (14.6 %). The DNA G+C content was 57.15 mol%. The polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, four unidentified aminolipids and three unidentified lipids. The novel strain can be differentiated from its closest type strain by a negative test for urease and the presence of diphosphatidylglycerol and aminolipid. The combined genotypic and phenotypic data show that strain PA15-N-34T represents a novel species within the genus Alcanivorax , for which the name Alcanivorax sediminis sp. nov. is proposed, with the type strain PA15-N-34T (=MCCC 1A14738T=KCTC 72163T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.004285