Glutamicibacter mishrai sp. nov., isolated from the coral Favia veroni from Andaman Sea

A novel aerobic marine actinobacterium (strain S5–52 T ) belonging to the genus Glutamicibacter was isolated from the coral Favia veroni sampled from the Andaman Sea, India. Cells are Gram stain positive and rod shaped. The DNA G+C content was 58.7 mol%. The major quinones were MK-8 and MK-9. The polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, glycolipid, trimannosyldiacylglycerol, phospholipid and dimannosylglyceride. The peptidoglycan type was A4α. Strain S5–52 T showed a maximum 16S rRNA similarity of 99.36% with Glutamicibacter halophytocola DSM 101718 T . The genome of strain S5–52 T was 3.57 Mb that contains 3274 protein coding sequences (CDS). DNA–DNA similarity and ANI values between S5–52 T and the reference strains were below 70% and 95–96%, respectively. Analysis of genomic reduction events in the evolutionary path from the LUCA (last universal common ancestor) to G. mishrai LMG 29155 T and G. halophytocola DSM 101718 T exhibit a number of genes involved in amino acid metabolism, cell wall biogenesis and replication, recombination and repair mechanism that reduced in both the species. Based on phenotypic, chemotaxonomic properties and comparative genomic studies, the strain S5–52 T is considered a novel species of the genus Glutamicibacter , for which the name Glutamicibacter mishrai sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is S5–52 T (= KCTC 39846 T = LMG 29155 T ).