%0 Journal Article %A Lee, Jae-Jin %A Park, Su-Jin %A Lee, Yeon-Hee %A Lee, Seung-Yeol %A Ten, Leonid N %A Jung, Hee-Young %T Hymenobacter aquaticus sp. nov., a radiation-resistant bacterium isolated from a river %D 2017 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 67 %N 5 %P 1206-1211 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001788 %K polyphasic taxonomy %K Bacteroidetes %K Hymenobacter %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-stain-negative, non-motile, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped, aerobic bacterial strain, designated 16F3PT, was isolated from the Han River, South Korea, and characterized taxonomically using a polyphasic approach. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed 16F3PT to be within the genus Hymenobacter , and most closely related to Hymenobacter chitinivorans Txc1T (98.62 %) and Hymenobacter elongatus VUG-A112T (98.46 %). The phylogenetic distance from other species of the genus Hymenobacter with validly published names was greater than 4 % (i.e. sequence similarity was less than 96.0 %). Chemotaxonomic data also supported the classification of strain 16F3PT within the genus Hymenobacter . C16 : 0 (19.8 %), summed feature 3 (C16 : 1ω7c/C16 : 1ω6c; 15.4 %) and iso-C15 : 0 (13.0 %) were the major fatty acids, MK-7 was the predominant respiratory quinone, and phosphatidylethanolamine was the major polar lipid. The G+C content of the genomic DNA of strain 16F3PT was 61.9 mol%. DNA–DNA hybridization experiments showed that the values for DNA–DNA relatedness between strain 16F3PT and the phylogenetically closest neighbours were below 19 %. On the basis of its phenotypic properties and phylogenetic distinctiveness, strain 16F3PT represents a novel species of the genus Hymenobacter , for which the name Hymenobacter aquaticus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 16F3PT (=KCTC 52194T=JCM 31653T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001788