%0 Journal Article %A Sukontasing, Sirapan %A Tanasupawat, Somboon %A Moonmangmee, Somporn %A Lee, Jung-Sook %A Suzuki, Ken-ichiro %T Enterococcus camelliae sp. nov., isolated from fermented tea leaves in Thailand %D 2007 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 57 %N 9 %P 2151-2154 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65109-0 %K DMK, demethylmenaquinone %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-positive and catalase-negative coccus that formed chains, strain FP15-1T, isolated from fermented tea leaves (‘miang’), was studied systematically. The strain was facultatively anaerobic and produced l-lactic acid from glucose. Demethylmenaquinone (DMK-7) was the major menaquinone. Straight-chain unsaturated fatty acids C16 : 1 and C18 : 1 were the dominant components. The DNA G+C content was 37.8 mol%. On the basis of 16S rRNA and RNA polymerase α subunit (rpoA) gene sequence analysis, strain FP15-1T was closely related to Enterococcus italicus KCTC 5373T, with 99.2 and 93.8 % similarity, respectively. The strain could be clearly distinguished from E. italicus ATCC 5373T by low DNA–DNA relatedness (≤33.8 %) and phenotypic characteristics. Therefore, this strain represent a novel species of the genus Enterococcus, for which the name Enterococcus camelliae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is FP15-1T (=KCTC 13133T =NBRC 101868T =NRIC 0105T =TISTR 932T =PCU 277T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.65109-0