Description of Arenibacter algicola Ast 28

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, non-flagellated, non-pigmented, and rod-shaped. Colonies are round, convex, smooth, and yellow colored after incubation for 7 days on MA at 10-30℃. Positive for nitrate reduction, glucose fermentation, gelatin hydrolysis but negative for urease, esculin hydrolysis, and β-galactosidase indole production, arginine dihydrolase, and gelatin hydrolysis in API 20NE. D-Glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, malic acid and trisodium citrate are utilized as sole carbon sources, but not capric acid, adipic acid and phenylacetic acid. Strain Ast28 (= GFMCBAC000000242) was isolated from a seawater alga sampled at Chungcheongbuk-do. The GenBank accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain Ast28 is MN 258888.