%0 Journal Article %A Srinivasan, Sathiyaraj %A Park, Giho %A Yang, Hyejin %A Hwang, Supyong %A Bae, Yoonjung %A Jung, Yong-An %A Kim, Myung Kyum %A Lee, Myungjin %T Gordonia caeni sp. nov., isolated from sludge of a sewage disposal plant %D 2012 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 62 %N Pt_11 %P 2703-2709 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.029736-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-stain-positive, strictly aerobic, short-rod-shaped, non-motile strain (designated MJ32T) was isolated from a sludge sample of the Daejeon sewage disposal plant in South Korea. A polyphasic approach was applied to study the taxonomic position of strain MJ32T. Strain MJ32T showed highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to Gordonia hirsuta DSM 44140T (98.1 %) and Gordonia hydrophobica DSM 44015T (97.0 %); levels of sequence similarity to the type strains of other recognized Gordonia species were less than 97.0 %. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain MJ32T belonged to the clade formed by members of the genus Gordonia in the family Gordoniaceae . The G+C content of the genomic DNA of strain MJ32T was 69.2 mol%. Chemotaxonomically, strain MJ32T showed features typical of the genus Gordonia . The predominant respiratory quinone was MK-9(H2), the mycolic acids present had C56–C60 carbon atoms, and the major fatty acids were C16 : 0 (34.6 %), tuberculostearic acid (21.8 %), C16 : 1ω7c (19.5 %) and C18 : 1ω9c (12.7 %). The peptidoglycan type was based on meso-2,6-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid with glycolated sugars. On the basis of phylogenetic inference, fatty acid profile and other phenotypic properties, strain MJ32T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Gordonia , for which the name Gordonia caeni sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is MJ32T ( = KCTC 19771T = JCM 16923T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.029736-0