scholarly journals Nocardia concava sp. nov., isolated from Japanese patients

2005 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 2081-2083 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akiko Kageyama ◽  
Katsukiyo Yazawa ◽  
Hiroko Taniguchi ◽  
Hiroji Chibana ◽  
Kazuko Nishimura ◽  
...  

Two actinomycete strains, IFM 0354T and IFM 0576, isolated from Japanese patients, were found to have morphological, biochemical and chemotaxonomic properties consistent with their classification in the genus Nocardia. The strains resembled Nocardia otitidiscaviarum and Nocardia uniformis in their phenotypic properties. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that the strains are closely related to Nocardia seriolae. DNA–DNA relatedness values and phenotypic differences from N. seriolae indicated that the strains belong to a novel species of Nocardia, for which the name Nocardia concava sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is IFM 0354T (=NBRC 100430T=JCM 12351T=DSM 44804T).

2006 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 1085-1088 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soon Dong Lee

A novel actinomycete, strain N3-7T, was isolated from a natural cave in Jeju, Republic of Korea, using a dilution method and was subjected to characterization using polyphasic taxonomy. A 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis revealed that the organism belonged to the phylogenetic cluster of the genus Actinocorallia and was most closely related to Actinocorallia glomerata and Actinocorallia longicatena (97.6 and 97.5 % similarity, respectively). The main chemotaxonomic properties of strain N3-7T, such as the principal amino acid of the peptidoglycan, the predominant menaquinone and the polar lipid profile, supported classification in the genus Actinocorallia. The organism was readily differentiated from Actinocorallia species with validly published names on the basis of a broad range of phenotypic properties. Thus the isolate represents a novel species of the genus Actinocorallia, for which the name Actinocorallia cavernae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is strain N3-7T (=JCM 13278T=NRRL B-24429T).


2006 ◽  
Vol 56 (9) ◽  
pp. 2031-2036 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyoung-Ho Kim ◽  
Leonid N. Ten ◽  
Qing-Mei Liu ◽  
Wan-Taek Im ◽  
Sung-Taik Lee

A Gram-negative, strictly aerobic, rod-shaped, non-motile, non-spore-forming bacterial strain, designated TR6-04T, was isolated from compost and characterized taxonomically by using a polyphasic approach. The organism grew optimally at 30 °C and at pH 6.5–7.0. The isolate was positive for catalase and oxidase tests but negative for gelatinase, indole and H2S production. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that strain TR6-04T fell within the radiation of the cluster comprising Sphingobacterium species and clustered with Sphingobacterium mizutaii ATCC 33299T (96.7 % sequence similarity); the similarity to sequences of other species within the family Sphingobacteriaceae was less than 92.0 %. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 38.7 mol%. The predominant respiratory quinone was MK-7. The major fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0, iso-C17 : 0 3-OH and summed feature 4 (iso-C15 : 0 2-OH and/or C16 : 1 ω7c). These chemotaxonomic data supported the affiliation of strain TR6-04T to the genus Sphingobacterium. However, on the basis of its phenotypic properties and phylogenetic distinctiveness, strain TR6-04T (=KCTC 12579T=LMG 23402T=CCUG 52468T) should be classified as the type strain of a novel species, for which the name Sphingobacterium daejeonense sp. nov. is proposed.


2006 ◽  
Vol 56 (12) ◽  
pp. 2861-2866 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonid N. Ten ◽  
Sang-Hoon Baek ◽  
Wan-Taek Im ◽  
Qing-Mei Liu ◽  
Zubair Aslam ◽  
...  

A Gram-positive, non-motile, endospore-forming bacterium, designated Gsoil 1517T, was isolated from soil of a ginseng field in Pocheon Province (South Korea) and was characterized in order to determine its taxonomic position, using a polyphasic approach. It was found to rod-shaped and aerobic or facultatively anaerobic. It grew optimally at 30 °C and at pH 6.5–7.0. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that strain Gsoil 1517T forms a distinct phylogenetic lineage within the genus Bacillus, being related to Bacillus funiculus JCM 11201T (96.8 %). The strain showed less than 94.3 % sequence similarity with other Bacillus species. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was found to be 47.8 mol% and the predominant respiratory quinone was MK-7. The major fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0 (42.4 %), anteiso-C15 : 0 (17.4 %), iso-C14 : 0 (9.7 %) and C16 : 0 (6.0 %). On the basis of its phenotypic properties and phylogenetic distinctiveness, strain Gsoil 1517T represents a novel species of the genus Bacillus, for which the name Bacillus panaciterrae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is Gsoil 1517T (=KCTC 13929T=CCUG 52470T=LMG 23408T).


2007 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina Raats ◽  
Malka Halpern

Chironomids (Diptera; Chironomidae) are the most abundant insects in freshwater aquatic habitats. Females of the genus Chironomus lay egg masses containing hundreds of eggs embedded in a gelatinous matrix. A bacterial strain, designated T3944DT, was isolated from a chironomid egg mass sampled from a waste-stabilization pond in northern Israel and was found to be Gram-positive, motile by peritrichous flagella, endospore-forming, halotolerant and facultatively alkaliphilic. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that strain T3944DT belonged to the genus Oceanobacillus, exhibiting the highest levels of similarity with the sequences of Oceanobacillus oncorhynchi subsp. incaldanensis DSM 16557T (94.9 %), Oceanobacillus oncorhynchi subsp. oncorhynchi JCM 12661T (94.8 %), Oceanobacillus iheyensis JCM 11309T (94.7 %) and Oceanobacillus picturae LMG 19416 (94.5 %). Strain T3944DT grew optimally at 1–3 % NaCl, pH 8.5 and 37 °C. The major cellular fatty acids were anteiso-C15 : 0 (60.0 %) and anteiso-C17 : 0 (12.9 %) and the DNA G+C content was 38.1 mol%. On the basis of its phenotypic properties and phylogenetic distinctiveness, strain T3944DT represents a novel species in the genus Oceanobacillus, for which the name Oceanobacillus chironomi sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is T3944DT (=LMG 23627T=DSM 18262T).


2007 ◽  
Vol 57 (10) ◽  
pp. 2344-2348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elionora Hantsis-Zacharov ◽  
Malka Halpern

Strain H38T was isolated during a study on the diversity of culturable psychrotolerant bacteria in raw milk. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that strain H38T belongs to the genus Chryseobacterium (family Flavobacteriaceae, phylum Bacteroidetes), with the highest similarity (96.7 %) to Chryseobacterium hispanicum VP48T. Strain H38T grows aerobically, at 4–41 °C, with 0–2.5 % NaCl and at pH 6.5–10.5. Light induces the formation of yellow carotenoid pigments. The dominant cellular fatty acids are 15 : 0 iso (41.6 %), 15 : 0 anteiso (16.6 %) and 17 : 0 iso 3-OH (10.3 %). The G+C content of the DNA is 37.8 mol%. On the basis of its phenotypic properties and phylogenetic distinctiveness, strain H38T (=LMG 24029T =DSM 19056T) is classified in the genus Chryseobacterium as the type strain of a novel species, for which the name Chryseobacterium haifense sp. nov. is proposed.


Author(s):  
Yong-Taek Jung ◽  
Soo-Young Lee ◽  
Won-Chan Choi ◽  
Tae-Kwang Oh ◽  
Jung-Hoon Yoon

A Gram-negative, non-sporulating, non-flagellated rod, designated BR-9T, was isolated from soil collected on the Korean peninsula. Strain BR-9T grew optimally at pH 6.0–7.0, at 30 °C and in the absence of NaCl. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain BR-9T belonged to the genus Pedobacter and clustered with Pedobacter insulae DS-139T and Pedobacter koreensis WPCB189T. Strain BR-9T exhibited 98.2 and 97.5 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with P. insulae DS-139T and P. koreensis WPCB189T, respectively, and <96.7 % sequence similarity with the type strains of other species in the genus Pedobacter. Strain BR-9T contained MK-7 as the predominant menaquinone and iso-C15 : 0 and summed feature 3 (C16 : 1ω7c and/or iso-C15 : 0 2-OH) as the major fatty acids. The DNA G+C content of strain BR-9T was 38.5 mol%. DNA–DNA relatedness between strain BR-9T and P. insulae DS-139T and P. koreensis KCTC 12536T was 3.4–4.2 %, which indicated that the isolate was genetically distinct from these type strains. Strain BR-9T was also distinguishable by differences in phenotypic properties. On the basis of the data presented, strain BR-9T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Pedobacter, for which the name Pedobacter boryungensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is BR-9T ( = KCTC 23344T  = CCUG 60024T).


2012 ◽  
Vol 62 (Pt_4) ◽  
pp. 795-799 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moriyuki Hamada ◽  
Chiaki Komukai ◽  
Tomohiko Tamura ◽  
Lyudmila I. Evtushenko ◽  
Natalia G. Vinokurova ◽  
...  

A non-motile and non-endospore-forming rod, strain NBRC 16403T, was isolated from the phyllosphere of a sedge (Carex sp.). 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated that strain NBRC 16403T was closely related to Herbiconiux solani DSM 19813T (98.6 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity), Herbiconiux ginsengi wged11T (97.8 %) and Herbiconiux moechotypicola RB-62T (97.8 %). The peptidoglycan (B2γ type) contained d- and l-2,4-diaminobutyric acids, d-alanine, glycine and threo-3-hydroxyglutamic acid, which replaced glutamic acid almost completely. The predominant menaquinones were MK-10 and MK-11. The polar lipid pattern comprised diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, three glycolipids and minor amounts of other polar lipids. The major fatty acids were anteiso-C15 : 0, iso-C16 : 0 and anteiso-C17 : 0; no cyclohexyl-C17 : 0 was detected. The DNA G+C content was 71.0 mol%. The results of phylogenetic and DNA–DNA relatedness studies, along with phenotypic differences between strain NBRC 16403T and recognized members of the genus Herbiconiux, indicated that the isolate should be assigned to a novel species of the genus Herbiconiux, for which the name Herbiconiux flava sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is NBRC 16403T ( = VKM Ac-2058T).


2011 ◽  
Vol 61 (7) ◽  
pp. 1612-1616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lingyun Qu ◽  
Qiliang Lai ◽  
Fengling Zhu ◽  
Xuguang Hong ◽  
Jinxing Zhang ◽  
...  

Two novel Gram-negative, oxidase- and catalase-positive, rod-shaped bacterial strains, designated YCSA28T and YCSA39, were isolated from sediment of Daqiao saltern, Jimo, Qingdao, on the east coast of China. The two strains grew optimally at 28–30 °C, at pH 7.5 and in the presence of 7–8 % (w/v) NaCl. They were assigned to the genus Halomonas, class Gammaproteobacteria, based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. The major cellular fatty acids of the two strains were C18 : 1ω7c (42.9 %), C16 : 0 (23.1 %) and C16 : 1ω7c/ω6c (18.0 %), and Q-9 was the major ubiquinone. The G+C content of the DNA of strains YCSA28T and YCSA39 was 63.7 and 63.9 mol%, respectively. The predominant respiratory lipoquinone, cellular fatty acid profiles and DNA G+C content of strains YCSA28T and YCSA39 were consistent with those of recognized species of the genus Halomonas. Levels of DNA–DNA relatedness between strains YCSA28T and YCSA39, between YCSA28T and Halomonas ventosae Al12T, and between YCSA39 and H. ventosae Al12T were 95, 45 and 50 %, respectively. Together, these data indicated that strains YCSA28T and YCSA39 represent a single novel species of the genus Halomonas, for which the name Halomonas daqiaonensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is YCSA28T ( = CGMCC 1.9150T  = NCCB 100305T  = MCCC 1B00920T).


2007 ◽  
Vol 57 (11) ◽  
pp. 2453-2457 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Kalyan Chakravarthy ◽  
T. N. R. Srinivas ◽  
P. Anil Kumar ◽  
Ch. Sasikala ◽  
Ch. V. Ramana

Two Gram-negative, vibrioid, phototrophic, purple non-sulfur strains, JA131T and JA135T, were isolated from marine habitats. Strain JA131T is non-motile but strain JA135T is motile by means of a pair of monopolar flagella. Both strains have an obligate requirement for NaCl for growth. The intracellular photosynthetic membranes of the two novel strains are of the vesicular type. Bacteriochlorophyll a and probably rhodovibrine are present as photosynthetic pigments. Niacin, thiamine and p-aminobenzoic acid are required as growth factors for both novel strains. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, morphological and physiological characteristics, strains JA131T and JA135T are significantly different from each other and from other species of the genus Roseospira and thus represent two novel species for which the names Roseospira visakhapatnamensis sp. nov. and Roseospira goensis sp. nov. are proposed, respectively. The type strain of Roseospira visakhapatnamensis sp. nov. is JA131T (=ATCC BAA-1365T=JCM 14190T) and the type strain of Roseospira goensis sp. nov. is JA135T (=ATCC BAA-1364T=JCM 14191T).


2011 ◽  
Vol 61 (7) ◽  
pp. 1715-1719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sang-Hoon Baek ◽  
Yingshun Cui ◽  
Sun-Chang Kim ◽  
Chang-Hao Cui ◽  
Chengri Yin ◽  
...  

A Gram-reaction-positive, rod-shaped, spore-forming bacterium, designated Gsoil 1105T, was isolated from soil of a ginseng field in Pocheon Province in South Korea and characterized in order to determine its taxonomic position. Comparative analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence showed that the isolate belongs to the order Bacillales, showing the highest level of sequence similarity with respect to Tumebacillus permanentifrigoris Eur1 9.5T (94.6 %). The phylogenetic distances from other described species with validly published names within the order Bacillales were greater than 9.0 %. Strain Gsoil 1105T had a genomic DNA G+C content of 55.6 mol% and menaquinone 7 (MK-7) as the major respiratory quinone. The major fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0 and anteiso-C15 : 0. On the basis of its phenotypic properties and phylogenetic distinctiveness, strain Gsoil 1105T represents a novel species of the genus Tumebacillus, for which the name Tumebacillus ginsengisoli sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is Gsoil 1105T ( = KCTC 13942T  = DSM 18389T).


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