@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001331, author = "Park, Sooyeon and Park, Ji-Min and Lee, Kang Hyun and Yoon, Jung-Hoon", title = "Pontibacter litorisediminis sp. nov., isolated from a tidal flat", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2016", volume = "66", number = "10", pages = "4172-4178", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001331", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001331", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "Pontibacter litorisediminis sp. nov.", keywords = "Novel species", keywords = "Polyphasic taxonomy", keywords = "Tidal flat sediment", abstract = "A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-flagellated, motile by gliding and ovoid or rod-shaped bacterial strain, designated YKTF-7T, was isolated from a tidal flat sediment on the Yellow Sea, South Korea. Strain YKTF-7T grew optimally at pH 7.0–8.0, at 30–37 °C and in the presence of 0.5–2.0 % (w/v) NaCl. A neighbour-joining phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain YKTF-7T fell within the clade comprising the type strains of species of the genus Pontibacter , clustering with the type strains of Pontibacter odishensis and Pontibacter korlensis with which it exhibited 98.0–98.7 % sequence similarity. Strain YKTF-7T exhibited 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities of 94.7–96.8 % to the type strains of the other species of the genus Pontibacter and of less than 91.7 % to those of other recognized species. Strain YKTF-7T contained MK-7 as the predominant menaquinone and summed feature 4 (iso-C17 : 1 I and/or anteiso-C17 : 1 B) and iso-C15 : 0 as the major fatty acids. The major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine and two unidentified lipids. The DNA G+C content of strain YKTF-7T was 54.0 mol%, and its mean DNA–DNA relatedness values with the type strains of P . odishensis and P . korlensis were 25 and 14 %, respectively. Differential phenotypic properties, together with the phylogenetic and genetic distinctiveness, revealed that strain YKTF-7T is separated from recognized species of the genus Pontibacter . On the basis of the data presented, strain YKTF-7T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Pontibacter , for which the name Pontibacter litorisediminis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is YKTF-7T(=KCTC 52252T=NBRC 112298T).", }