Novosphingobium decolorationis sp. nov., an aniline blue-decolourizing bacterium isolated from East Pacific sediment

Aniline blue- decolourizing bacterial strain 502str22T, isolated from sediment collected in the East Pacific, was subjected to characterization by a polyphasic taxonomic approach. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain 502str22T belongs to the genus Novosphingobium, with closely related type strains 'Novosphingobium profundi' F72T (97.6%), N. mathurense SM117T (97.1%) and N. arvoryzae Jyi-02T (97.0%). Digital DNA-DNA hybridization and average nucleotide identity values between strain 502str22T and closely related type strains were 20.3-24.8% and 74.1-81.9%, respectively. The major cellular fatty acid (>10%) was C18:1 omega 7c. The polar lipid profile consisted of a mixture of phosphatidylcholine, one sphingoglycolipid, diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylmonomethylethanolamine. The DNA G+C content of strain 502str22T was 65.5 mol%. The polyphasic taxonomic results indicated that strain 502str22T represents a novel species of the genus Novosphingobium, for which the name Novosphingobium decolorationis sp. nov is proposed. The type strain is 502str22T (=KCTC 82134T= MCCC 1K04799 T).