RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Wang, Xiaowei A1 Xue, Yanfen A1 Ma, YanheYR 2009 T1 Sediminibacillus albus sp. nov., a moderately halophilic, Gram-positive bacterium isolated from a hypersaline lake, and emended description of the genus Sediminibacillus Carrasco et al. 2008 JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 59 IS 7 SP 1640 OP 1644 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.004234-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A moderately halophilic, Gram-positive-staining, endospore-forming, rod-shaped and strictly aerobic bacterium, designated strain NHBX5T, was isolated from Lake Nanhuobuxun in China. Strain NHBX5T was able to grow at NaCl concentrations of 0–22 % (w/v) (optimally at 7 %, w/v), at pH 6.0–9.0 (optimally at pH 7.5) and at temperatures of 10–45 °C (optimally at 37 °C). The cell-wall peptidoglycan of strain NHBX5T contained meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid. The predominant isoprenoid quinone was MK-7. The major cellular fatty acids were anteiso-C15 : 0 and anteiso-C17 : 0. The polar lipids were phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol and a glycolipid. The genomic DNA G+C content of strain NHBX5T was 44.9 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequence comparisons revealed that strain NHBX5T was most closely related to Sediminibacillus halophilus EN8dT (98.6 % gene sequence similarity). The level of DNA–DNA relatedness between strain NHBX5T and S. halophilus CGMCC 1.6199T was 34.6 %. Based on the data presented, strain NHBX5T represents a novel species of the genus Sediminibacillus, for which the name Sediminibacillus albus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is NHBX5T (=DSM 19340T =CGMCC 1.6502T). In addition, an emended description of the genus Sediminibacillus is presented., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.004234-0