Paenibacillus glycanilyticus subsp. hiroshimensis subsp. nov., isolated from leaf soil collected in Japan

Strain CCI5, an oligotrophic bacterium, was isolated from leaf soil collected in Japan. Strain CCI5 grew at temperatures between 25 °C and 43 °C (optimum temperature, 40 °C) and at pHs between 6.0 and 10.0 (optimum pH, 9.0). Its major fatty acids were anteiso-C_15:0 and iso-C_16:0, and menaquinone 7 was the only detected quinone system. In a phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences, strain CCI5 presented as a member of the genus Paenibacillus. Moreover, multilocus sequence analysis based on partial sequences of the atpD, dnaA, gmk, and infB genes showed that strain CCI5 tightly clustered with P. glycanilyticus DS-1^T. The draft genome of strain CCI5 consisted of 6,864,972 bp with a G+C content of 50.7% and comprised 6,189 predicted coding sequences. The genome average nucleotide identity value (97.8%) between strain CCI5 and P. glycanilyticus DS-1^T was below the cut-off value for prokaryotic subspecies delineation. Based on its phenotypic, chemotaxonomic, and phylogenetic features, strain CCI5 (= HUT-8145^T = KCTC 43270^T) can be considered as a novel subspecies within the genus Paenibacillus with the proposed name Paenibacillus glycanilyticus subsp. hiroshimensis subsp. nov.