A Gram-negative, non-motile, aerobic, and rod-shaped bacterial
strain designated as BR5-28T was isolated from the soil
of a ginseng field at Baekdu Mountain Korea, and its taxonomic
position was investigated using a polyphasic approach.
Strain BR5-28T grew at 10–42°C (optimum temperature,
30°C) and pH 5.5–8.5 (optimum pH, 7.0) on R2A agar medium
without additional NaCl supplementation. Strain BR5-
28T exhibited β-glucosidase activity, which was responsible
for its ability to transform the ginsenosides Rb1 and Rd (the
two dominant active components of ginseng) to compound-K.
Based on 16S rRNA gene phylogeny, the novel strain showed
a new branch within the genus Mucilaginibacter of the family
Sphingobacteriaceae, and formed clusters with Mucilaginibacter
frigoritolerans FT22T (95.8%) and Mucilaginibacter
gotjawali SA3-7T (95.7%). The G+C content of the genomic
DNA was 45.1%. The predominant respiratory quinone was
MK-7 and the major fatty acids were summed feature 3 (comprising
C16:1 ω6c and/or C16:1 ω7c), iso-C15:0 and anteiso-C15:0.
The major polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol
and phosphatidylethanolamine. Strain BR5-
28T was differentiated genotypically and phenotypically from
the recognized species of the genus Mucilaginibacter. The isolate
therefore represents a novel species, for which the name
Mucilaginibacter hankyongensis sp. nov. is proposed, with
the type strain BR5-28T (=KCTC 22274T =DSM 21151T).
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