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Paenibacillus flagellatus sp. nov., isolated from selenium mineral soil
Xingli Dai1, Kaixiang Shi1, Xin Wang1
11State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, PR China.
Abstract:
Strain DXL2T, a Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped, endospore-forming, motile, aerobic bacterium, was isolated from selenium mineral soil. DXL2T had the highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities with those of Paenibacillus ginsengarviGsoil 139T (96.8 %), Paenibacillushemerocallicola DLE-12T (95.5 %) and Paenibacillus hodogayensisSGT (95.4 %). The genome size of DXL2T was 7.24 Mb, containing 6243 predicted protein-coding genes, with a DNA G+C content of 60.2 mol%. DXL2T contained meso-diaminopimelic acid in the cell-wall peptidoglycan. The major cellular fatty acids were anteiso-C15 : 0, iso-C16 : 0 and iso-C15 : 0. The major quinone was menaquinone 7. The polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, two aminophospholipids, an unidentified aminolipid, phosphatidylmethylethanolamine, an unidentified glycolipid and an unidentified phospholipid. Compared with the other strains, DXL2T had a specific phospholipid and a specific aminolipid, it hydrolyzed Tween 40 and could not assimilate potassium gluconate. On the basis of the phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic results, strain DXL2T represents a novel species within the genus Paenibacillus, for which the name Paenibacillusflagellatus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is DXL2T (=KCTC 33976T=CCTCC AB 2018054T).
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