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Pontibacillus marinus sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium from a solar saltern, and emended description of the genus Pontibacillus

¹ Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, 52 Oeundong, Yusong, Daejeon 305-333, Republic of Korea
² Environmental Biotechnology National Core Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-701, Korea

Correspondence
Chang-Jin Kim
changjin{at}kribb.re.kr

A moderately halophilic, Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium (BH030004^T) was isolated from a solar saltern in Korea. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain BH030004^T belonged to the genus Pontibacillus. Chemotaxonomic data (DNA G+C content, 42 mol%; major isoprenoid quinone, MK-7; cell-wall type, A1-type meso-diaminopimelic acid; major fatty acids, iso-C_{15 : 0} and anteiso-C_{15 : 0}) also supported the affiliation of the isolate to the genus Pontibacillus. Although the 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity between strain BH030004^T and Pontibacillus chungwhensis DSM 16287^T was relatively high (99·1 %), physiological properties and DNA–DNA hybridization (about 7 % DNA–DNA relatedness) allowed genotypic and phenotypic differentiation of strain BH030004^T from the type strain of P. chungwhensis. Therefore, strain BH030004^T represents a novel species of the genus Pontibacillus, for which the name Pontibacillus marinus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is BH030004^T (=KCTC 3917^T=DSM 16465^T).

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain BH030004^T is AY603977.

Fatty acid profiles of strain BH30004^T and P. chungwhensis DSM 16287^T are available as supplementary material in IJSEM Online.

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