Bacterial cellulose is a desirable biological macromolecule that can prevent obesity via modulating lipid metabolism and gut microbiota.

Obesity has attracted great concern because of its undesirable effects on our life quality. Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a biological macromolecule that can improve gut homeostasis and lipid metabolism. However, its potential role in preventing obesity and associated mechanisms is still poorly understood.

Description of Salinimonas profundi sp. nov., a deep-sea bacterium harboring a transposon Tn6333.

A Gram-staining-negative bacterium, strain HHU 13199, was isolated from a marine sediment sample collected from South China Sea (119°19.896'E, 19°41.569'N) at a depth of 2918 m.

Sphingomonas hominis sp. nov., isolated from hair of a 21-year-old girl.

A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, motile strain, HHU CXW, was isolated from hair of a healthy 21-year-old female student of Hohai University, Nanjing, China. The 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated that HHU CXW represents a member of the genus Sphingomonas with the highest sequence similarity (97.6%) to the type strain S.