Altererythrobacter insulae sp. Nov., a lipolytic bacterium isolated from a tidal flat

A lipolytic, Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-motile and coccoid, ovoid or rod-shaped bacterial strain, designated BPTF-M16^T, was isolated from tidal flat sediment on the Yellow Sea in the Republic of Korea. Strain BPTF-M16^T grew optimally at 30^°C and in the presence of 2.0–3.0 % (w/v) NaCl. A phylogenetic tree of 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain BPTF-M16^T fell within the clade comprising the type strains of Altererythrobacter species. Strain BPTF-M16^T exhibited 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity values of 98.0 and 97.1 % to the type strains of Altererythrobacter ishigakiensis and Altererythrobacter marinus, respectively, and of less than 97.0 % to the type strains of the other recognized species. Strain BPTF-M16^T contained Q-10 as the predominant ubiquinone and C_{18: 1}ω7c as the major fatty acid. The major polar lipids detected in strain BPTF-M16^T were phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, sphingoglycolipid and one unidentified glycolipid. Mean DNA–DNA relatedness values of strain BPTF-M16^T with the type strains of A. ishigakiensis and A. marinus were 22 and 13 %, respectively. The average nucleotide identity value between strain BPTF-M16^T and the type strain of A. ishigakiensis was 76.80 %. Differential phenotypic properties, together with the phylogenetic and genetic data, revealed that strain BPTF-M16^T is separated from recognized Altererythrobacter species. On the basis of the data presented here, strain BPTF-M16^T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Altererythrobacter, for which the name Altererythrobacter insulae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is BPTF-M16^T (=KCTC 62421^T=KACC 19609^T=NBRC 113190^T).