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Lei Sun1,2,3, Panpan Wang1, Dongfang Zhao1
1School of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, PR China.
Abstract:
A Gram-stain-variable, aerobic, rod-shaped, endospore-forming strain R196T) was isolated from internal tissues of roots of Cymbidium goeringii. Cells were motile with peritrichous flagella. The colonies were light pink on tryptone soya agar medium. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain R196T fell into a phylogenetic cluster belonging to the genus Paenibacillus. Strain R196T was closely related to Paenibacillus cavernae C4-5T and Paenibacillus contaminans CKOBP-6T with 93.6 and 93.3% sequence similarities, respectively. The major cellular polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, three unidentified phospholipids, two unidentified aminophospholipids and an unidentified aminolipid. The dominant respiratory quinone was MK-7. The main cellular fatty acids were anteiso-C15 : 0 (53.01%), C16 : 0 (13.04%) and iso-C16 : 0 (10.80%). The genome size of R196T was 9.45 Mb, containing 7617 predicted protein-coding genes, with a DNA G+C content of 57.7 mol%. Based on the results of phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and whole-genome analyses, strain R196T represents a novel species of the genus Paenibacillus, for which the name Paenibacillus cymbidii sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is R196T (=ACCC 61713T=KCTC 33718T).
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