| Title | NOTE] Rummeliibacillus suwonensis sp. nov., Isolated from Soil Collected in a Mountain Area of South Korea |
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| Author | Jihee Her and Jaisoo Kim* |
| Address | Department of Life Science, College of Natural Sciences, Kyonggi University, Suwon 443-760, Republic of Korea |
| Bibliography | Journal of Microbiology, 51(2),268-272, 2013, |
| DOI | 10.1007/s12275-013-3126-5 |
| Key Words | Rummeliibacillus suwonensis, soil, spore-forming |
| Abstract | A Gram-positive, facultatively aerobic, rod-shaped, nonmotile, terminal spore-forming bacterium, designated strain G20T, was isolated from soil collected in a mountain region of Suwon, South Korea. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, this strain was shown to be related to Rummeliibacillus pycnus NBRC 101231T (97.4%) and Rummeliibacillus stabekisii KSC-SF6gT (95.7%). DNA-DNA hybridization studies showed 42% and 50% similarity of strain G20T with R. pycnus NBRC 101231Tand R. stabekisii KSCSF6gT, respectively. The DNA G+C content of G20T was 37.8 mol%, the major cellular fatty acids were iso-C15:0 and anteiso-C15:0, and the predominant menaquinones were MK-7 and MK-8. On the basis of phylogenetic, chemotaxonomic, and phenotypic characteristics, we propose this strain to be a novel species and the third member of genus Rummeliibacillus. We suggest the name Rummeliibacillus suwonensis sp. nov. The type strain is G20T (KACC 17316T =KEMB 9005-003T =JCM 19065T). |