sp. nov., a casein-hydrolysing bacterium from the Jiaozi Mountain in Yunnan, PR China.

Strain KC 927 was isolated during an investigation of the soil bacteria diversity on Jiaozi Mountain, central Yunnan, Southwest China. The strain was Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped, non-motile, oxidase-negative, catalase-positive and aerobic. Results of 16S rRNA gene alignment and phylogenetic analysis indicated that strain KC 927 was a member of the genus and closely related to GCR10 (98.4%), DSM 21068 (98.3 %) and '' CCTCC AB 2015118 (97.9 %). With a genome size of 4 348 708 bp, strain KC 927 had 33.5 mol% DNA GC content and contained 4012 protein-coding genes and 77 RNA genes. The average nucleotide identity and digital DNA-DNA hybridization values between strain KC 927 and GCR10, DSM 21068 and '' CCTCC AB 2015118 were 80.1, 79.6 and 90.7 %, and 25.5, 23.6 and 42.0 %, respectively. The main polar lipid of strain KC 927 was phosphatidylethanolamine and the respiratory quinone was MK-6. The major fatty acids (≥10 %) were iso-C, iso-C 9 and iso-C 3-OH. Evidence from phenotypic, phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic analyses support that strain KC 927 represents a new species of the genus , for which the name sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is KC 927 (=CGMCC 1.18760=JCM 35707).