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Abstract
A novel actinomycete, designated strain Sco-A36T, was isolated from volcanic ash. Cells were aerobic, Gram-stain-positive, oxidase-negative, catalase-positive, non-motile cocci; colonies were yellow-coloured, smooth, entire and convex. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the organism formed a distinct phyletic line within the radiation of the genus Marmoricola. Its closest phylogenetic neighbours were Marmoricola aurantiacus DSM 12652T (97.9 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity), Marmoricola scoriae Sco-D01T (97.9 %), Marmoricola aequoreus SST-45T (97.4 %) and Marmoricola bigeumensis MSL-05T (96.3 %). The diagnostic diamino acid in the cell walls was ll-diaminopimelic acid. The predominant menaquinone was MK-8(H4). The polar lipids contained phosphatidylinositol, diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylcholine and an unknown phospholipid. The predominant fatty acids were C16 : 0, C17 : 1ω8c, C18 : 1ω9c and C16 : 1ω7c and/or iso-C15 : 0 2-OH. The DNA G+C content of strain Sco-A36T was 71.0 mol%. Levels of DNA–DNA relatedness between the new isolate and the type strains of recognized species of the genus Marmoricola were 4.9–29.2 %. The phenotypic and DNA–DNA hybridization data presented here strongly suggest that strain Sco-A36T represents a novel species of the genus Marmoricola, for which the name Marmoricola korecus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is Sco-A36T ( = KCTC 19596T = DSM 22128T).
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- 21C Frontier Microbial Genomics and Application Center Program, Ministry of Science & Technology, Republic of Korea