Noviherbaspirillum suwonense sp. nov., isolated from an air sample

Abstract

A Gram-stain-negative bacterium, strain 5410S-62T, was isolated from an air sample collected in Suwon, Republic of Korea. It was aerobic, motile, mesophilic and formed rod-shaped cells. Colonies on R2A agar were convex, circular and pale orange with entire margins. Growth occurred at pH 5–9 (optimally at pH 7) and at 10–40 °C (optimally at 28 °C). It did not grow in the presence of 1 % NaCl. Comparative analyses of 16S rRNA gene sequences demonstrated that the novel strain was closely related to members of the genus Noviherbaspirillum . Strain 5410S-62T showed the highest sequence similarity (98.2 %) to Glaciimonas singularis A2-57T. It also showed high 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity (98.1–95.6 %) to members of the genus Noviherbaspirillum (98.1 % to Noviherbaspirillum aurantiacum SUEMI08T, 97.8 % to Noviherbaspirillum soli SUEMI10T and Noviherbaspirillum canariense SUEMI03T, 97.6 % to Noviherbaspirillum psychrotolerans PB1T and 95.6 % to Noviherbaspirillum malthae CC-AFH3T). The strain contained summed feature 3 (C16 : 1ω6c and/or C16 : 1ω7c), C16 : 0 and summed feature 8 (C18 : 1ω6c and/or C18 : 1ω7c) as major fatty acids, Q-8 as the only ubiquinone and large amounts of phosphatidylethanolamine, diphosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylglycerol. Strain 5410S-62T revealed less than 70 % DNA–DNA relatedness with the type strains of closely related species of the genera Noviherbaspirillum and Herbaspirillum and Glaciimonas singularis . Based on the physiological, biochemical and chemotaxonomic data obtained in this study, it is proposed that strain 5410S-62T represents a novel species, Noviherbaspirillum suwonense sp. nov., with 5410S-62T ( = KACC 16657T =  NBRC 108944T) as the type strain.