So-Yeon Lee , Hojun Sung , Pil Soo Kim , Hyun Sik Kim , Jae-Yun Lee , June-Young Lee , Yun-Seok Jeong , Euon Jung Tak , Jeong Eun Han , Dong-Wook Hyun , Jin-Woo Bae
J. Microbiol. 2021;59(11):978-987. Published online September 27, 2021
Phenotypic and genomic analyses were performed to characterize
two novel species, H23M54T and AMA3305T, isolated
from the faeces of the Oriental stork (Ciconia boyciana) and
the cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus), respectively. Strains
H23M54T and AMA3305T showed the highest similarities of
16S rRNA gene sequences and complete genome sequences
with Ornithinimicrobium cavernae CFH 30183T (98.5% of 16S
rRNA gene sequence similarity and 82.1% of average nucleotide
identity, ANI) and O. pekingense DSM 21552T (98.5% of
16S rRNA gene sequence similarity and 82.3% of ANI), respectively.
Both strains were Gram-stain-positive, obligate aerobes,
non-motile, non-spore-forming, and coccoid- and rodshaped.
Strain H23M54T grew optimally at 25–30°C and pH
8.0 and in the presence of 1.5–2% (wt/vol) NaCl, while strain
AMA3305T grew optimally at 30°C and pH 7.0 and in the presence
of 1–3% (wt/vol) NaCl. Both strains had iso-C15:0, iso-
C16:0, and summed feature 9 (iso-C17:1 ω9c and/or C16:0 10-
methyl) as major cellular fatty acids. MK-8 (H4) was identified
as the primary respiratory quinone in both strains. Strains
H23M54T and AMA3305T possessed diphosphatidylglycerol
and phosphatidylglycerol as major polar lipids. Moreover,
strains H23M54T and AMA3305T commonly contained ribose
and glucose as major sugars and L-ornithine, L-alanine,
glycine, and aspartic acid as major amino acids. The polyphasic
taxonomic data indicate that strains H23M54T and AMA3305T
represent novel species of the genus Ornithinimicrobium. We
propose the names Ornithinimicrobium ciconiae sp. nov. and
Ornithinimicrobium avium sp. nov. for strains H23M54T (= KCTC 49151T = JCM 33221T) and AMA3305T (= KCTC
49180T = JCM 32873T), respectively.