The fatty acids in whole cells of the novel strain and G.
mesophilus Mok-17T, produced by incubation on marine
agar 2216 (MA; BD) at 25 uC for 48 h, were saponified,
methylated and extracted using the standard protocol of
version 6.0B of the Sherlock Microbial Identification
System (MIDI). The fatty acids were separated on a 6850
gas chromatograph (Agilent) and identified by using the
TSBA6.0 database of the Microbial Identification System
(Sasser, 1990). . The major fatty acids in both strains were
iso-C15 : 0, iso-C17 : 0 3-OH, summed feature 9 (iso-C17 : 1