Chryseobacterium takakiae sp. nov., a member of the phylum Bacteroidetes isolated from Takakia lepidozioides.

A Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped and non-endospore-forming bacterium, designated strain AG1-2(T), was isolated from Takakia lepidozioides collected from the Gawalong glacier in Tibet, China and characterized using a polyphasic taxonomic approach. The predominant fatty acids of strain AG1-2(T) were iso-C15 : 0 (36.0 %), iso-C17:0 3-OH (20.2 %), summed feature 9 (iso-C17:1ω9c and/or C16:0 10-methyl, 16.4%) and summed feature 3 (C16:1ω7c and/or C16:1ω6c, 11.1%). The major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, three unidentified aminolipids and two unidentified lipids. Strain AG1-2(T) contained MK-6 as the dominant menaquinone, and the genomic DNA G+C content was 37.3 mol%. The phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain AG1-2(T) was affiliated to species of the genus Chryseobacterium, and its closest related species were Chryseobacterium taiwanense Soil-3-27(T), Chryseobacterium hispalense AG13(T), Chryseobacterium camelliae THG C4-1(T) and Chryseobacterium taeanense PHA3-4(T) with a sequence similarity of 98.0, 97.8, 97.3 and 97.1%, respectively. However, the DNA-DNA relatedness values between these strains and strain AG1-2(T) were 29, 21, 21 and 45%, respectively. Based on phylogenetic inference and phenotypic data, strain AG1-2(T) is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Chryseobacterium, for which the name Chryseobacterium takakiae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is AG1-2(T) ( = CGMCC 1.12488(T) = DSM 26898(T)).