Pontimonas salivibrio gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Microbacteriaceae isolated from a seawater reservoir of a solar saltern.

A Gram-staining-positive, non-motile, strictly aerobic, non-spore-forming, vibrio-shaped bacterial strain, CL-TW6(T), was isolated from a reservoir seawater sample from a solar saltern in Korea. Analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain CL-TW6(T) revealed a clear affiliation with the family Microbacteriaceae. Strain CL-TW6(T) showed the closest phylogenetic relationships with the genera Yonghaparkia and Microcella, with 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity of 94.8-95.3%. The strain grew in the presence of 1-9% sea salts, at 15-35 °C and at pH 7.0-9.0. The major cellular fatty acids of strain CL-TW6(T) were anteiso-C15:0 (32.6%), iso-C16:0 (20.4%), iso-C15:0 (13.2%) and iso-C14:0 (11.8%) and the major menaquinones were MK-9 and MK-10. Cell-wall analysis showed that the peptidoglycan of strain CL-TW6(T) contained 2,4-diaminobutyric acid, alanine, glycine and glutamic acid. The major polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylglycerol. The genomic DNA G+C content of strain CL-TW6(T) was 60.0 mol%. The combined phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic data showed clearly that strain CL-TW6(T) could be distinguished from members of the family Microbacteriaceae with validly published names. Thus, strain CL-TW6(T) should be classified as representing a novel genus and species in the family Microbacteriaceae, for which the name Pontimonas salivibrio gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Pontimonas salivibrio is CL-TW6(T) (=KCCM 90105(T) =JCM 18206(T)).