%0 Journal Article %A Khianngam, Saowapar %A Tanasupawat, Somboon %A Akaracharanya, Ancharida %A Kim, Kwang Kyu %A Lee, Keun Chul %A Lee, Jung-Sook %T Paenibacillus xylanisolvens sp. nov., a xylan-degrading bacterium from soil %D 2011 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 61 %N 1 %P 160-164 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.022269-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A xylan-degrading bacterium, strain X11-1T, was isolated from soil collected in Nan province, Thailand. The strain was characterized based on its phenotypic and genotypic characteristics. Strain X11-1T was a Gram-stain-positive, facultatively anaerobic, spore-forming, rod-shaped bacterium. It contained meso-diaminopimelic acid in the cell-wall peptidoglycan. The major menaquinone was MK-7, anteiso-C15 : 0 (56.6 %) and C16 : 0 (14.0 %) were the predominant cellular fatty acids and diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylmonomethylethanolamine, phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylglycerol were the major phospholipids. The DNA G+C content was 51.6 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis using 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain X11-1T was affiliated to the genus Paenibacillus and was closely related to Paenibacillus naphthalenovorans KACC 11505T and Paenibacillus validus CCM 3894T, with 96.5 % sequence similarity. Therefore, the strain represents a novel species of the genus Paenibacillus, for which the name Paenibacillus xylanisolvens sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is X11-1T (=KCTC 13042T =PCU 311T =TISTR 1829T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.022269-0