sp. nov., isolated from an automobile air conditioning system.

A Gram-stain-positive and pale pink-pigmented bacterial strain, designated ID0501, was isolated from an automobile evaporator core collected in the Republic of Korea. The cells were aerobic and coccoidal. The strain grew at 15-40 ˚C (optimum, 37 ˚C), at pH 6.0-7.0 (optimum, pH 6.5), and in the presence of 0-1.5 % (w/v) NaCl. Phylogenetically, the strain was related to members of the genus and showed the highest sequence similarity, of 96.9 %, with MA1002. The major fatty acids of the strain were iso-C, iso-C and iso-C. The predominant respiratory quinone was MK-8. The polar lipids profile revealed the presence of phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylcholine, diphosphatidylglycerol, unidentified phospholipids, an unidentified aminolipid and unidentified glycolipids. The DNA G+C content of the strain was 68.3 mol%. On the basis of phenotypic, genotypic and chemotaxonomic data, strain ID0501 represents a novel species of the genus , for which the name sp. nov. (=KACC 19286=NBRC 112889) is proposed.