Photobacterium gaetbulicola sp. nov., a lipolytic bacterium isolated from a tidal flat sediment

Abstract

A Gram-negative, motile, non-spore-forming and lipolytic bacterial strain, designated Gung47T, was isolated from a tidal flat on the west coast of Korea. Strain Gung47T grew optimally at 30 °C and with 2−5 % (w/v) NaCl. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain Gung47T belonged to the genus Photobacterium. Strain Gung47T exhibited 98.1 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with Photobacterium rosenbergii LMG 22223T and 94.3–96.3 % similarity with other type strains of species of the genus Photobacterium. Strain Gung47T exhibited 47 % DNA–DNA relatedness to P. rosenbergii LMG 22223T. Strain Gung47T contained Q-8 as the predominant ubiquinone and C16 : 1 ω7c and/or iso-C15 : 0 2-OH, C16 : 0 and C18 : 1 ω7c as the major fatty acids. In this study, two closely related type strains, P. rosenbergii LMG 22223T and Photobacterium halotolerans LMG 22194T, were also found to have Q-8 as the predominant ubiquinone. The DNA G+C content of strain Gung47T was 50.6 mol%. The differential phenotypic properties together with the phylogenetic and genetic distinctiveness of strain Gung47T demonstrated that this strain is distinguishable from recognized Photobacterium species. Therefore, strain Gung47T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Photobacterium, for which the name Photobacterium gaetbulicola sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is Gung47T (=KCTC 22804T =CCUG 58399T).