Hymenobacter oligotrophus sp. nov., isolated from a contaminated agar plate

Abstract

A taxonomic study of a Gram-stain negative, rod-shaped, motile, asporogenous, catalase- and oxidase-positive bacterium, sh-6T, forming pink-red colonies, isolated from a contaminated R2A plate in the laboratory was performed. Its optimum growth temperature was determined to be 28 °C in the absence of NaCl on R2A plates. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, strain sh-6T belongs to the genus Hymenobacter and is closely related to Hymenobacter deserti ZLB-3T (95.05%), Hymenobacter paludis KBP-30T (94.96%), Hymenobacter coalescens WW84T (94.04%), Hymenobacter gummosus ANT-18T (93.38%), Hymenobacter ocellatus Myx2105T (93.70%), Hymenobacter jeollabukensis 1-3-3-8T (93.48%) and Hymenobacter koreensis GYR3077T (93.21%). Comparison of the genome of strain sh-6T and that of H. gummosus ANT-18T gave digital DNA–DNA hybridization and Average Nucleotide Identity values of 20.6% and 78.4%, respectively. The respiratory isoprenoid quinone and polyamine component were identified as MK-7 and sym-homospermidine, respectively. The major cellular fatty acids identified as iso-C15:0, summed feature 4 (iso-C17:1 I/anteiso B), iso-C16:0, iso-C17:0 3-OH and iso-C17:0. The major polar lipid of strain sh-6T determined to be phosphatidylethanolamine. The DNA G+C content was determined to be 60.5 mol%. On the basis of the evidence presented in this study, a novel species of the genus Hymenobacter, Hymenobacter oligotrophus sp. nov., is proposed, with the type strain sh-6T (= CCTCC AB 2016064T = KCTC 62345T).