Sinosporangium siamense sp. nov., isolated from soil and emended description of the genus Sinosporangium
An actinomycetes strain A-T 1946T that developed spherical sporangia containing non-motile spores on aerial mycelia was isolated from dry deciduous forest soil in Thailand. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated that strain A-T 1946T belongs to the genus Sinosporangium , being closely related to Sinosporangium album 6014T (98.8 % sequence similarity). The DNA–DNA relatedness values were 43.7–50.9 %, which were significantly below 70 % and differentiated strain A-T 1946T from the closest species. The cell-wall peptidoglycan contained meso-diaminopimelic acid. The whole-cell sugars contained rhamnose, ribose, madurose and glucose. The predominant menaquinone was MK-9(H2). The diagnostic phospholipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylmethylethanolamine, lysophosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylinositol-mannoside, N-acetylglucosamine-containing phospholipids, two unknown phosphoglycolipids and two unknown phospholipids. The predominant cellular fatty acids were unsaturated C16 : 1 and C17 : 1, and saturated C16 : 0 and 10-methyl-C17 : 0. Following an evaluation of phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and genotypic characteristics, the isolate is proposed to represent a novel species of genus Sinosporangium to be named Sinosporangium siamense sp. nov. The type strain is A-T 1946T ( = BCC 29081T = NBRC 109515T). An emended description of the genus Sinosporangium is also provided.