A gram-stain-negative, endo-spore forming, facultatively anaerobic, motile, rod-shaped bacterial strain SM69T, isolated from soil samples of Rohtak, Haryana, India was characterized using polyphasic approach. White colonies were 2-3 mm, in diameter and growth occurred between 20 and 55 °C, pH 6.0-10.0 with 0-2.0% (w/v) NaCl. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity the strain is placed in the genus Paenibacillus as it is closely related to 'Paenibacillus tyrfis MSt1T' (99.7%) and P. elgii SD17T (99.6%). The cell wall peptidoglycan contained meso-diaminopimelic acid. The dominant fatty acids included anteiso-C15: 0 (50%), C16: 0 (12%) and anteiso-C17: 0 (10%). Major polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylglycerol. The size of the draft genome was 7,848,017 bp, with 53.1% G+C content. dDDH (51.6%) and ANI (93.5%) of strain SM69T with its close relatives indicates that it represents a novel species, for which the name Paenibacillus oleatilyticus sp. nov. (Type strain SM69T = MCC 3064T = JCM 33981T = KACC 21649T) is proposed.
Keywords: Oleate degrader; Paenibacillus; Rohtak; Soil sample.
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