<i>Cellvibrio chitinivorans</i> sp. nov., a chitinolytic bacterium isolated from an intertidal mudflat.

ABSTRACT: A novel chitinolytic bacterium, designated as NN19^T, was isolated from the intertidal mudflat in Leizhou, Guangdong Province, PR China, and subjected to polyphasic taxonomy studies. Strain NN19^T is a Gram-negative short rod-shaped bacterium that is motile via a single polar flagellum. Growth occurred at temperatures of 15 °C and 37 °C (optimal 30 °C), pH 6.5-8.0 (optimal pH 7.0) and sodium chloride concentration of 0%-3% (optimal 0.5%-1%). It was identified as a Cellvibrio species based on the results of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, and it showed the highest degree of sequence similarity with Cellvibrio fontiphilus MVW-40^T (97.87%). The main fatty acids of NN19^T were found to be summed feature 3 (C_16 : 1  ω7

SUBMITTER: Xin Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12281832 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature