@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.005433, author = "Baek, Ju Hye and Baek, Woonhee and Jeong, Sang Eun and Lee, Sung Chul and Jin, Hyun Mi and Jeon, Che Ok", title = "Rhodococcus oxybenzonivorans sp. nov., a benzophenone-3-degrading bacterium, isolated from stream sediment", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2022", volume = "72", number = "6", pages = "", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005433", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.005433", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "biodegradation", keywords = "benzophenone-3", keywords = "Rhodococcus oxybenzonivorans", keywords = "Actinomycetota", keywords = "new taxa", eid = "005433", abstract = "A Gram-stain-positive, facultative aerobic, oxidase-negative, catalase-positive, non-sporulating, and non-motile bacterium, which degraded benzophenone-3, was isolated from stream sediment collected in the Republic of Korea and designated as strain S2-17T. Cells of this strain were rod-shaped during the early growth phase but became coccoid after the late exponential growth phase. Bacterial growth was observed at 15–37 °C (optimum, 25–30 °C) and pH 6.0–9.5 (optimum, pH 7.5–8.5) and in the presence of 0–9.0 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum, 0–1.0 %). Menaquinone-8 (H2) was the sole isoprenoid quinone, and C16 : 0, C17 : 1  ω8c, summed feature 3 (comprising C16 : 1  ω7c/C16 : 1  ω6c) and C18 : 1  ω9c were the major fatty acids. The cell wall of strain S2-17T contained meso-diaminopimelic acid, and arabinose, galactose and mycolic acid were found in whole-cell hydrolysates, suggesting a chemotype IV cell wall. The G+C content of the genome was 65.6 mol%. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that strain S2-17T formed a phyletic lineage within the genus Rhodococcus and was most closely related to Rhodococcus jostii DSM 44719T (99.2 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity). Average nucleotide identity and digital DNA–DNA hybridization values between strain S2-17T and R. jostii DSM 44719T were 82.6 and 26.5 %, respectively, indicating differences between the species. Based on its phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and molecular features, strain S2-17T represents a novel species of the genus Rhodococcus , for which the name Rhodococcus oxybenzonivorans sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is S2-17T (=KACC 19281T=JCM 32046T).", }