Nedashkovskaya Olga I, Suzuki Makoto, Vancanneyt Marc, Cleenwerck Ilse, Zhukova Natalia V, Vysotskii Mikhail V, Mikhailov Valery V, Swings Jean
Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Far-Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt 100 Let Vladivostoku 159, 690022 Vladivostok, Russia.
Tokyo Research Laboratories, Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co. Ltd, 3-6-6 Asahi-machi, Machida-shi, Tokyo 194-8533, Japan.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2004 Jul;54(Pt 4):1107-1110. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.02987-0.
Strain KMM 3524T was isolated from the holothurian Apostichopus japonicus living in the Sea of Japan. The bacterial strain was pigmented, non-motile, Gram-negative, strictly aerobic and oxidase-, catalase- and beta-galactosidase-positive. From the results of 16S rDNA sequence analysis, strain KMM 3524T was found to be related closely to Salegentibacter salegens (98.1%). DNA-DNA homology between strains KMM 3524T and S. salegens DSM 5424T was 38%; this showed clearly that the holothurian isolate KMM 3524T belongs to a novel species of the genus Salegentibacter for which the name Salegentibacter holothuriorum sp. nov. is proposed, with KMM 3524T (=NBRC 100249T=LMG 21968T) as the type strain.
