RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Sukontasing, Sirapan A1 Tanasupawat, Somboon A1 Moonmangmee, Somporn A1 Lee, Jung-Sook A1 Suzuki, Ken-ichiroYR 2007 T1 Enterococcus camelliae sp. nov., isolated from fermented tea leaves in Thailand JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 57 IS 9 SP 2151 OP 2154 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65109-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB 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)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.65109-0