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Volume 67, Issue 5

gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the Dead Sea Free

Abstract

A novel halophilic, filamentous actinomycete strain, designated AFM 10258, was isolated from a sediment sample collected from the Dead Sea of Israel. The isolate grew with 10–35 % NaCl and did not grow without NaCl. The isolate formed white aerial mycelium and long spore chains, and two spores were separated by sterile mycelium. The spores were non-motile, spherical and rugose-surfaced. The isolate contained -diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid and galactose and arabinose as the major whole-cell sugars. The polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylmethylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol and three unknown phospholipids. Major fatty acids were anteiso-C, iso-C and iso-C. MK-9(H) was the predominant menaquinone and the DNA G+C content was 62.8 mol%. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated that strain AFM 10258 shared low sequence similarity with the closely related representatives of the families (below 94.47 %) and (below 93.76 %). Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain AFM 10258 formed a robust clade with members of the family On the basis of analysis of phenotypic, chemical and molecular characteristics, strain AFM 10258 is considered to represent a novel species of a new genus, for which the name gen. nov., sp. nov., is proposed. The type strain is AFM 10258 (=DSM 45977=CGMCC 4.7115).

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Keyword(s): Dead Sea and haloactinomyces
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