Paenibacillus hamazuiensis sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from Hamazui hot spring in Yunnan province, south-west China

A bacterial strain, Gram-positive, aerobic, rod-shaped, motile, designated YIM B00624 T which was isolated from a Hamazui hot spring in Tengchong, Yunnan province, south-west China. The strain grew well on International Streptomyces Project (ISP) 2 medium and colonies were creamy yellow, flat and circular. The results of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity analysis showed that strain YIM B00624 T was closely related to the type strain of Paenibacillus filicis S4 T (95.9%). The main menaquinone of strain YIM B00624 T was menaquinone-7 (MK-7) and major fatty acids were anteiso-C 15:0 , anteiso-C 17:0 and C 16:0 . The isolate contained meso -diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid and the major polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylmonomethylethanolamine and four unidentified glycolipids. The DNA G+C content of strain YIM B00624 T was 53.4 mol%. Based on physiological, phenotypic and chemotaxonomic data, strain YIM B00624 T belongs to a novel species of the genus Paenibacillus , for which the name Paenibacillus hamazuiensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is YIM B00624 T (= CGMCC 1.19245 T = KCTC 43365 T ).