%0 Journal Article %A Lee, Yunhee %A Jin, Hyun Mi %A Jung, Hye Su %A Jeon, Che Ok %T Sphingobacterium humi sp. nov., isolated from soil %D 2017 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 67 %N 11 %P 4632-4638 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002345 %K Sphingobacterium humi %K new taxa %K species novel %K Bacteroidetes %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-stain-negative, facultatively aerobic bacterium, designated strain D1T, was isolated from soil in South Korea. Cells of strain D1T were non-motile rods with oxidase- and catalase-positive activities. Growth was observed at 15–40 °C (optimum, 30–37 °C), at pH 5.5–9.0 (optimum, pH 7.0–8.0) and in the presence of 0.0–5.0 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum, 0.0–1.0 %). The only respiratory quinone detected was menaquinone 7 (MK-7), and iso-C15 : 0, iso-C17 : 0 3-OH and summed feature 3 (comprising C16 : 1ω7c/C16  : 1ω6c) were identified as the major fatty acids. Phosphatidylethanolamine was the major polar lipid, and two unidentified glycophospholipids and four unidentified lipids were also detected as minor polar lipids. Sphingolipids, a typical chemotaxonomic feature of the genus Sphingobacterium , were detected. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 43.6 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain D1T formed a phyletic lineage with Sphingobacterium hotanense XH4T within the genus Sphingobacterium . Strain D1T was most closely related to S. hotanense XH4T (98.1 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity) and Sphingobacterium cellulitidis R-53603T (97.2 %), and the DNA–DNA relatedness level between strain D1T and the type strain of S. cellulitidis was 43.1±0.7 %. Based on the phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and molecular features, strain D1T clearly represents a novel species of the genus Sphingobacterium , for which the name Sphingobacterium humi sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is D1T (=KACC 18595T=JCM 31225T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002345