Polyphasic Taxonomic Analysis of Pontitalea aquivivens gen. nov., sp. nov., Isolated from Seawater
摘要
A Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped, strictly aerobic, non-motile, and chemo-organoheterotrophic alphaproteobacterium, designated KMU-169T, was isolated from coastal seawater in the Republic of Korea. The novel isolate was able to grow at 0–2.0% NaCl concentrations (w/v), pH 6.0–9.5, and 15–40 °C. The analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strain KMU-169T belongs to the family Paracoccaceae and shared the highest similarity (97.0%) with “Defluviimonas salinarum” CAU 1641T. The major (> 10%) cellular fatty acids were C18:1 ω7c and summed feature 3 (comprising C16:1 ω6c and/or C16:1 ω7c). The predominant respiratory quinone was ubiquinone-10. Strain KMU-169T comprised phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylcholine, an unidentified aminolipid, an unidentified phospholipid, and an unidentified lipid. The assembled draft genome size of strain KMU-169T was 4.1 Mbp with a DNA G + C content of 65.0%. The average nucleotide identity (ANI), average amino acid identity (AAI), and digital DNA–DNA hybridization (dDDH) values between the genomes of strain KMU-169T and its closely related taxa were 71.9–76.8%, 60.9–76.1%, and 18.4–21.0%, respectively. The genome of the strain KMU-169T revealed the presence of numerous genes involved in bio-macromolecule degradation, indicating a high potential for producing industrially valuable enzymes. Based on the polyphasic taxonomic data reported in this study, a novel genus and a new species of the family Paracoccaceae, for which the name Pontitalea aquivivens gen. nov., sp. nov., is proposed with the type strain KMU-169T (= KCCM 90598T = NBRC 117093T).