Pedobacter montanisoli sp. nov., isolated from soil

A white-pigmented, non-motile, Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped bacterium, designated CYS-01^T, was obtained from soil sampled at Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea. Cells were strictly aerobic, grew optimally at 28 °C. Phylogenetic analysis based on its 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that strain CYS-01^T formed a lineage within the family Sphingobacteriaceae and clustered with members of the genus Pedobacter. The closest relatives were Pedobacter xixiisoli CGMCC 1.12803^T (95.70 % sequence similarity), Pedobacter ureilyticus THG-T11^T (95.35 %), Pedobacter helvus P-25^T (95.28 %), Pedobacter chitinilyticus CM134L-2^T (94.94 %), Pedobacter nanyangensis Q-4^T (94.73 %) and Pedobacter zeaxanthinifaciens TDMA-5^T (94.07 %). The principal respiratory quinone was MK-7 and the major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, an unidentified aminolipid, unidentified lipids and an unidentified glycolipid. The predominant cellular fatty acids were iso-C_{15 : 0}, summed feature 3 (C_{16 : 1} ω7c and/or C_{16 : 1} ω6c) and iso-C_{17 : 0} 3-OH. The DNA G+C content was 36.6 mol%. Based on the results of genomic, chemotaxonomic, phenotypic and phylogenetic analyses, strain CYS-01^T represents novel species in the genus Pedobacter, for which the name Pedobacter montanisoli sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is CYS-01^T (=KACC 22655^T=NBRC 115630^T).