Description of Chryseobacterium timonianum sp. nov., isolated from a patient with pneumonia

Abstract

Using a polyphasic taxonomic strategy, an aerobic, Gram-negative, non-motile, yellow pigmented rod isolated from a sputum sample of a patient with pneumonia was characterised. This bacterial strain, designated G972^T, could not be identified by our systematic MALDI-TOF screening on a MicroFlex. This led to the sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene, which shows 98.57% sequence identity with that of Chryseobacterium indologenes 16777^T, the phylogenetic closely related type strain of a species with standing in nomenclature, which putatively classifies it as a new species. The major cell fatty acids were identified as 13-methyl-tetradecanoic acid (61%), 3-hydroxy-heptadecanoic acid (16%) and 15-methyl-11-hexadecenoic acid (11%). d-glucose, d-mannose, aesculin, d-maltose, d-trehalose, and gentibiose are the main carbon source. Digital DNA–DNA hybridization (dDDH) estimation and average nucleotide identity values (ANI) of the strain G972^T against genomes of the type strains of related species ranged between 18.9 and 32.8% and between 71.46 and 83.61%, respectively, thus confirming again the new species status of the strain. Here, we describe the characteristics of this organism, complete genome sequence and annotation. The 5,390,132 bp size genome contains 4867 protein-coding genes, 89 RNAs (three genes are 5S rRNA, one gene is 16S rRNA, one gene is 23S rRNA and 84 tRNAs) with 35.51% GC content. Finally, on the basis of these polyphasic data, consisting of phenotypic and genomic analyses, we conclude that strain strain G972^T (= DSM 103388^T = CSUR P2233^T) represents a novel species for which we propose the name Chryseobacterium timonianum. The 16S rRNA and genome sequences are available in GenBank database under accession numbers LT161886 and FJVD00000000.