RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Joo, Eun Sun A1 Kim, Eun Bit A1 Jeon, Seon Hwa A1 Srinivasan, Sathiyaraj A1 Kim, Myung KyumYR 2017 T1 Spirosoma swuense sp. nov., isolated from wet soil JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 67 IS 3 SP 532 OP 536 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001592 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB Strain JBM2-3T, a pale-yellow-coloured, aerobic, catalase-negative, oxidase-positive and Gram-stain-negative bacterium, was isolated from wet soil. The isolate grew aerobically at 25–30 °C (optimum 25 °C), pH 6.0–8.0 (optimum pH 7.0) and in the presence of 0–0.5 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum 0 % NaCl). Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequence indicated that strain JBM2-3T belonged to the genus Spirosoma , with a sequence similarity of 96.2 % with Spirosoma panaciterrae Gsoil 1519T. The strain showed the typical chemotaxonomic characteristics of the genus Spirosoma , with the presence of menaquinone 7 as the respiratory quinone; the major fatty acids were summed feature 3 (composed of C16: 1ω6c /ω7c), C16: 1ω5c and iso-C15: 0. The DNA G+C content of strain JBM2-3T was 47.4 mol%. The polar lipid profile contained major amounts of phosphatidylethanolamine and aminophospholipids. On the basis of its phenotypic and genotypic properties, and phylogenetic distinctiveness, strain JBM2-3T should be classified as a representative of a novel species in the genus Spirosoma , for which the name Spirosoma swuense sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is JBM2-3T (=KCTC 52176T=JCM 31298T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001592