| Abstract |
An alkali lignin-degrading, Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped, non-motile and facultatively anaerobic bacterium, designated BM_7T, was isolated from mangrove sediment of the supralittoral zone in the Jiulong river estuary, PR China. The cells of strain BM_7T were 0.4-0.6 µm wide and 1.0-8.5 µm long. Oxidase and catalase activities were positive. Strain BM_7T could grow at 10-37 °C (optimum, 25-28 °C), at pH 6.0-8.0 (optimum, pH 7.0) and in the presence of 0.5-6 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum, 2%). Phylogenetic analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strain BM_7T belonged to the genus Mangrovibacterium of the family Prolixibacteraceae. It showed the highest similarity to Mangrovibacterium diazotrophicum JCM 19152T (96.8 %), followed by Mangrovibacterium marinum KCTC 42253T (96.1%). The values of average nucleotide identity and DNA-DNA hybridization were calculated as 76.9, 24.3 and 76.1, 17.4 % between strain BM_7T with M. diazotrophicum JCM 19152T and M. marinum KCTC 42253T, respectively. The major respiratory quinone of strain BM_7T was MK-7. The polar lipids were detected as phosphatidylethanolamine, three unidentified phospholipids and four unidentified aminolipids. The dominant fatty acids consisted of iso-C15 : 0, anteiso-C15 : 0, C15 : 1 ω6c, iso-C17 : 0 3-OH, C17 : 1 ω6c, C17 : 0 3-OH and C17 : 0. The genome size of strain BM_7T is 5.6 Mb, with G+C content of 43.4 mol%. Based on the phylogenetic and phenotypic characteristics, strain BM_7T was considered to represent a novel species of the genus Mangrovibacterium, and the name Mangrovibacterium lignilyticum sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is BM_7T (=MCCC 1A15882T=KCTC 72696T).
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