%0 Journal Article %A Iino, Takao %A Suzuki, Ken-ichiro %A Harayama, Shigeaki %T Lacticigenium naphtae gen. nov., sp. nov., a halotolerant and motile lactic acid bacterium isolated from crude oil %D 2009 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 59 %N 4 %P 775-780 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.003293-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A novel lactic acid bacterium, strain MIC1-18T, was isolated from crude oil collected at an oil–water well in Akita, Japan. Cells of strain MIC1-18T were found to be facultatively anaerobic, mesophilic, neutrophilic, Gram-negative, non-sporulating, motile by means of peritrichous flagella and oval rods, 1.8–2.5 μm long. Optimum growth was observed at 30 °C, pH 7.0 and 3 % (w/v) NaCl. Strain MIC1-18T produced acid from l-arabinose, ribose, glucose, fructose, mannose, N-acetylglucosamine, amygdalin, arbutin, salicin, cellobiose, maltose, sucrose, trehalose, gentiobiose and 5-ketogluconate. l-Lactic acid was the major end product from glucose. The major cellular fatty acid was C16 : 1 ω7c. The cell-wall murein type was A4α containing Lys–Glu. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 37.8 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene revealed that strain MIC1-18T was accommodated as a member of the lactic acid bacteria of the low-G+C content Gram-positive bacteria; the closest neighbour of this organism was Atopococcus tabaci CCUG 48253T, with only 90.0 % sequence similarity. On the basis of the phenotypic features and phylogenetic position, a novel genus and species, Lacticigenium naphtae gen. nov., sp. nov., are proposed for strain MIC1-18T (=NBRC 101988T=DSM 19658T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.003293-0