%0 Journal Article %A Wang, Xue Min %A Ma, Shichun %A Yang, Shu Yan %A Peng, Rong %A Zheng, Ying %A Yang, Hong %T Paenibacillus nasutitermitis sp. nov., isolated from a termite gut %D 2016 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 66 %N 2 %P 901-905 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000807 %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-stain-positive, non-motile, aerobic and terminal-endospore-forming rod-shaped bacterium, strain P5-1T, was isolated from the hindgut of a wood-feeding higher termite, Nasutitermes sp. Phylogenetic analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that the strain was closely related to Paenibacillus sepulcri CCM 7311T (97.5 % similarity). Growth was observed at 10–40 °C (optimum, 30 °C) and at pH 5.5–9.0 (optimum, pH 7.5). The DNA G+C content of strain P5-1T was 48.9 mol%. Cells contained menaquinone 7 (MK-7) as the sole respiratory quinone and the major fatty acids were anteiso-C15 : 0 and iso-C15 : 0. The cellular polar lipids comprised phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, one unidentified phospholipid, one unidentified glycolipid and one unidentified aminophospholipid. The diamino acid of the cell-wall peptidoglycan was meso-diaminopimelic acid. Based on the phylogenetic, chemotaxonomic and phenotypic data obtained within this study, strain P5-1T represents a novel species of the genus Paenibacillus, for which the name Paenibacillus nasutitermitis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is P5-1T ( = CGMCC 1.15178T = NBRC 111536T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.000807