RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Lo, Naysim A1 Kim, Kyung Hyun A1 Baek, Kyunghwa A1 Jia, Baolei A1 Jeon, Che OkYR 2015 T1 Aestuariicella hydrocarbonica gen. nov., sp. nov., an aliphatic hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium isolated from a sea tidal flat JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 65 IS Pt_6 SP 1935 OP 1940 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000199 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A Gram-staining-negative, strictly aerobic bacterial strain, designated SM-6T, was isolated from a sea tidal flat of the Dangjin bay, South Korea. Strain SM-6T was able to degrade a broad range of aliphatic hydrocarbons. Cells were catalase- and oxidase-positive and non-motile rods. Growth of strain SM-6T was observed at 10–37 °C (optimum, 20–25 °C), at pH 5.5–9.0 (optimum, pH 6.5–7.5) and in the presence of 0–10 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum, 2–3 %). The only isoprenoid quinone detected was ubiquinone-8 (Q-8). C17: 1ω8c, C11: 0 3-OH, summed feature 3 (comprising C16: 1ω7c and/or C16: 1ω6c), C9: 0 3-OH and C10: 0 3-OH were observed as the major cellular fatty acids and phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol and four unidentified lipids were detected as polar lipids. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 47.5 mol%. Strain SM-6T was most closely related to Pseudomaricurvus alkylphenolicus KU41GT (95.5 %), Maricurvus nonylphenolicus KU41ET (94.4 %) and Pseudoteredinibacter isoporae SW-11T (94.3 %), based on 16S rRNA gene sequences, and phylogenetic analyses showed that strain SM-6T formed a phyletic lineage distinct from the closely related genera. On the basis of phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and molecular features, strain SM-6T represents a novel genus and species of the order Alteromonadales in the class Gammaproteobacteria, for which name Aestuariicella hydrocarbonica gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is SM-6T ( = KACC 18121T = JCM 30134T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.000199