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Cohnella thermotolerans gen. nov., sp. nov., and classification of ‘Paenibacillus hongkongensis’ as Cohnella hongkongensis sp. nov.

¹ Institut für Angewandte Mikrobiologie, Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen, IFZ–Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
² Grup d'Oceanografia Interdisciplinari, Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats (CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Mallorca, Spain
³ CCUG, Culture Collection University of Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden
⁴ Institut für Bakteriologie, Mykologie und Hygiene, Veterinärmedizinische Universität, Wien, Austria
⁵ DSMZ, Mascheroder Weg 1b, D-38240 Braunschweig, Germany

Correspondence
Peter Kämpfer
peter.kaempfer{at}agrar.uni-giessen.de

A Gram-positive, rod-shaped, endospore-forming organism, strain CCUG 47242^T, was isolated from a sample of industrial starch production in Sweden. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis demonstrated that this isolate was moderately related to species of the genus Paenibacillus, with <94·4 % sequence similarity to all other hitherto described Paenibacillus species. Strain CCUG 47242^T showed the greatest sequence similarity (96·5 %) to ‘Paenibacillus hongkongensis’ HKU3, a strain with a name that has not yet been validly published. Chemotaxonomic data [major menaquinone, MK-7 (98 %); major polar lipids, diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, lysyl-phosphatidylglycerol, two unknown phospholipids, four unknown aminophospholipids; major fatty acids, iso-C16 : 0 and anteiso-C15 : 0] showed some significant differences when compared with the type species of the genus Paenibacillus, Paenibacillus polymyxa. Physiological and biochemical tests allowed clear phenotypic differentiation of strain CCUG 47242^T from strain HKU3. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, in combination with chemotaxonomic data, strains CCUG 47242^T and HKU3 represent two novel species of a new genus of endospore-forming bacteria for which we propose the names Cohnella thermotolerans gen. nov., sp. nov. (type strain CCUG 47242^T=CIP 108492^T=DSM 17683^T) and Cohnella hongkongensis sp. nov. (type strain HKU3^T=CCUG 49571^T=CIP 107898^T=DSM 17642^T).

Phylogenetic trees constructed using the neighbour-joining and maximum-parsimony methods are available as supplementary figures in IJSEM Online.

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