Devosia pacifica sp. nov., isolated from deep-sea sediment.

A novel bacterial strain, NH131T, was isolated from deep-sea sediment of South China Sea. Cells were strictly aerobic, Gram-stain negative, short rod-shaped and motile with a single lateral flagellum. Strain NH131T grew optimally at pH 6.5–7.0 and 25–30 °C. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis revealed that strain NH131T belonged to the genus Devosia , sharing the highest sequence similarity with the type strain, Devosia geojensis BD-c194T (96.2 %). The predominant fatty acids were C18 : 1ω7c, 11-methyl C18 : 1ω7c, C18 : 0 and C16 : 0. Ubiquinone 10 was the predominant ubiquinone. The major polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phospholipid, three glycolipids and two unknown lipids. The DNA G+C content of strain NH131T was 63.0 mol%. On the basis of the results of polyphasic identification, it is suggested that strain NH131T represents a novel species of the genus Devosia for which the name Devosia pacifica sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is NH131T ( = JCM 19305T = KCTC 32437T).