Sphingomonas yunnanensis sp. nov., a novel Gram-negative bacterium from a contaminated plate

Abstract

A Gram-negative bacterium, YIM 003T, which was isolated from a contaminated plate in the laboratory, was subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic study. The organism had short-rod-shaped, motile cells, formed yellow-pigmented colonies on ISP2 medium and its optimum growth pH was 7·0–7·5. The major respiratory lipoquinone was ubiquinone Q-10. The phosphate-containing lipids detected in strain YIM 003T were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylcholine, sphingoglycolipid and one unidentified phospholipid. The major fatty acids were C18 : 1 ω7c (59·8 %), C16 : 0 (9·9 %), ai-C17 : 0 (5·3 %), i-C17 : 0 (4·4 %) and C14 : 0 2-OH (15·8 %). The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 67·5 mol%. Strain YIM 003T exhibited levels of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity of 98·2 % to Sphingomonas phyllosphaerae FA2T and 98·0 % to Sphingomonas adhaesiva DSM 7418T but showed less than 97·0 % similarity with respect to other species with validly published names. The DNA–DNA relatedness values of the isolate with S. phyllosphaerae FA2T and S. adhaesiva DSM 7418T were 59 and 26 %, respectively. The phenotypic characteristics and genotypic data indicate that strain YIM 003T should be distinguished from S. phyllosphaerae FA2T and S. adhaesiva DSM 7418T. Therefore, on the basis of the polyphasic taxonomic data presented, a novel species of the genus Sphingomonas, Sphingomonas yunnanensis sp. nov., is proposed, with the type strain YIM 003T (=CCTCC AB 204064T=KCTC 12346T).