Bacillus camelliae sp. nov., isolated from Pu'er tea.

A novel aerobic, Gram-stain-positive, sporogenous, rod-shaped bacterial strain, 7578-1T, was isolated from ripened Pu'er tea. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity comparisons, strain 7578-1T was grouped into the genus Bacillus and appeared to be closely related to the type strains Bacillus shackletoniiLMG 18435T (98.4 %), Bacillus acidicolaDSM 14745T (97.6 %), Bacillus paralicheniformis KACC 18426T (97.2 %) and Bacillus ginsengihumi KCTC 13944T (96.7 %). The fatty acid profile containing the major fatty acids, iso-C15 : 0, anteiso-C15 : 0 and anteiso-C17 : 0 supported the allocation of strain 7578-1T to the genus Bacillus. The strain had a cell-wall type A1γ peptidoglycan with meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid. The major menaquinone was MK-7 (95 %). The predominant polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylmethylethanolamine, phosphatidylethanolamine, one unidentified phospholipid and one unidentified lipid. The average nucleotide identity values between strain 7578-1T and its most closely related species were 67.8-82.4 % by OrthoANIu analysis. The DNA-DNA relatedness value between strain 7578-1T and the type strains of closely related species were 17-39 %, again indicating that strain 7578-1T represented a novel species in the genus Bacillus. The DNA G+C content of strain 7578-1T was 36.0 mol%. On the basis of the presented polyphasic evidence, strain 7578-1T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Bacillus, for which we propose the name Bacillus camelliae sp. nov. The type strain is 7578-1T (=CGMCC 1.15374T=KCTC 33845T).