Aureimonas Glaciei Sp Nov., Isolated From An Ice Core

A bacterial strain, B5-2(T), was isolated from an ice core drilled from Muztagh Glacier, China. Strain B5-2(T) was a Gram-stainnegative, short rod-shaped, motile by polar flagella, aerobic bacterium. The major fatty acids of strain B5-2(T) were summed feature 8 (C-18 : 1 omega 7c and/ or C-18 : 1 omega 6c) and iso-C-13 : 0. The G+C content of the DNA from strain B5-2(T) was 69.3 mol%. The predominant isoprenoid quinone of strain B5-2(T) was Q-10. The major polar lipids were phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylmonomethylethanolamine, phosphatidyldimethylethanolamine, phosphatidylcholine, an unidentified phospholipid and sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis revealed that the novel strain B5-2(T) shared highest similarity (96.7 %) with Aureimonas altamirensis S21B(T). On the basis of the results of this polyphasic study, strain B5-2(T) represents a novel species of the genus Aureimonas, for which the name Aureimonas glaciei sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is B5-2(T) (= CGMCC 1.15493(T) = KCTC 52395(T)).