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Sulfitobacter litoralis sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from the East Sea, Korea

¹ Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), 52 Oeundong, Yusong, Daejeon 305-333, Republic of Korea
² Department of Microbiology and Microbial Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
³ proBionic Corp., KRIBB, 52 Oeundong, Yusong, Daejeon 305-333, Republic of Korea
⁴ Department of Applied Microbiology, Yeungnam University, Kyeongsan-si, Kyeongbuk 712-749, Republic of Korea

Correspondence
Yong-Ha Park
peter{at}yumail.ac.kr

A Gram-negative, aerobic, halophilic bacterium, designated strain Iso 3^T, was isolated from the East Sea in Korea. Strain Iso 3^T was motile by means of polar flagella, occasionally formed rosette-like aggregates and contained 18 : 17c as the dominant cellular fatty acid. Strain Iso 3^T grew at NaCl concentrations of 1–10 % and temperatures of 4–30 °C. The optimal growth temperature was 20 °C. Analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that this strain is affiliated with a subcluster of the Alphaproteobacteria. However, strain Iso 3^T generated metabolic energy by sulfide oxidation. The 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity between strain Iso 3^T and the type strain of the most closely related species, Sulfitobacter pontiacus, was 97.7 %. DNA–DNA relatedness between strain Iso 3^T and Sulfitobacter pontiacus DSM 10014^T was 24.1 %. On the basis of phenotypic properties and phylogenetic distinctiveness, strain Iso 3^T is classified within a novel Sulfitobacter species, for which the name Sulfitobacter litoralis sp. nov. is proposed, with the type strain Iso 3^T (=KCTC 12521^T=DSM 17584^T).

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain Iso 3^T is DQ097527.

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