%0 Journal Article %A Lee, Dong Wan %A Lee, Soon Dong %T Tessaracoccus flavescens sp. nov., isolated from marine sediment %D 2008 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 58 %N 4 %P 785-789 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64868-0 %K DAP, diaminopimelic acid %I Microbiology Society, %X A novel actinobacterium, designated strain SST-39T, was isolated from a marine sediment sample collected in Jeju, Republic of Korea. Cells were facultatively anaerobic, Gram-positive, non-endospore-forming, non-motile rods. Colonies were circular, slightly convex, opaque and brilliant yellow. The cell-wall peptidoglycan of the organism contained ll-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid. Polar lipids included phosphatidylglycerol and diphosphatidylglycerol. The predominant menaquinone was MK-9(H4). The major cellular fatty acids were anteiso-C15 : 0, C18 : 0 and C16 : 0. The DNA G+C content was 68.4 mol%. A phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that the isolate belonged to the family Propionibacteriaceae and formed a unique cluster with the type strain of Tessaracoccus bendigoensis (97.0 % sequence similarity). Other phylogenetic neighbours were the type strains of Luteococcus peritonei (95.1 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity) and Propionibacterium propionicum (95.1 %). On the basis of its phenotypic and phylogenetic distinctiveness, strain SST-39T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Tessaracoccus, for which the name Tessaracoccus flavescens sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is SST-39T (=DSM 18582T =KCTC 19196T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.64868-0