%0 Journal Article %A MARTIN, KARIN %A SCHUMANN, PETER %A RAINEY, FREDERICK A. %A SCHUETZE, BARBARA %A GROTH, INGRID %T Janibacter limosus gen. nov., sp. nov., a New Actinomycete with meso-Diaminopimelic Acid in the Cell Wall %D 1997 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 47 %N 2 %P 529-534 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-47-2-529 %I Microbiology Society, %X New gram-positive bacteria were isolated from 1-year-old sludge from a wastewater treatment plant. The isolates are coccoid to rod-shaped, nonmotile aerobes that form neither spores nor mycelia. They are characterized by a peptidoglycan with directly cross-linked meso-diaminopimelic acid (type A1-γ), by the presence of menaquinone MK-8(H4). and by the lack of mycolic acids. The strains have complex fatty acid patterns with i-C16:0 and straight-chain saturated and unsaturated fatty acids as major components. The G+C content of the DNA is 70 mol%. The results of chemotaxonomic studies and a 16S ribosomal DNA sequence comparison support our proposal to assign these bacteria to a new genus, the genus Janibacter gen. nov.; the type species is Janibactor limosus sp. nov, and the type strain of J. limosus is strain HKI 83 (= DSM 11140). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-47-2-529