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1 Bioresource Collection and Research Centre, Food Industry Research and Development Institute, PO Box 246, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan
2 DSMZ – Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zelkuturen, Mascheroder Weg 1b, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany
3 Department of Environment and Biotechnology, Refining and Manufacturing Research Centre, Chinese Petroleum Corporation, Chia-Yi, Taiwan
Correspondence
Fwu-Ling Lee
fll{at}firdi.org.tw
Five strains with strong chitinolytic activity were isolated from a soil sample collected from southern Taiwan. The strains shared more than 92 % DNA–DNA similarity, indicating membership of the same genospecies. This close relationship was supported by high similarities in fatty acid composition and biochemical characteristics. A 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated that the isolates were members of the class ‘Betaproteobacteria’, in which they formed an individual subline of descent that was distantly related (<94 % similarity) to lineages defined by Formivibrio citricus DSM 6150T and Iodobacter fluviatilis DSM 3764T. On the basis of the phylogenetic and phenotypic distinctness of these novel chitin-degrading organisms, a new genus, Chitinibacter, is proposed, with Chitinibacter tainanensis (type strain, S1T=BCRC 17254T=DSM 15459T) as the type species.
The phenotypic characteristics (Table A) and cellular fatty acid compositions (Table B) of the novel chitin-degrading strains, and DNA–DNA hybridization results (Table C), are available as supplementary data in IJSEM Online.
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