%0 Journal Article %A Jamjan, Winai %A Suriyachadkun, Chanwit %A Tanasupawat, Somboon %A Sakai, Kenji %A Tashiro, Yukihiro %A Okugawa, Yuki %A Tongpim, Saowanit %T Amycolatopsis silviterrae sp. nov., isolated from forest soil %D 2018 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 68 %N 5 %P 1455-1460 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002687 %K novel actinobacteria %K Amycolatopsis silviterrae sp. nov. %I Microbiology Society, %X A novel actinobacterial strain, designated C12CA1T, was isolated from forest soil in the conservation area of Chulabhorn dam, Thailand, and its taxonomic position was determined by using a polyphasic approach. Strain C12CA1T contained meso-2,6 diaminopimelic acid in the cell-wall peptidoglycan, and arabinose and galactose as diagnostic sugars of the whole-cell hydrolysate. On the basis of morphological and chemotaxonomic characteristics, strain C12CA1T was classified in the genus Amycolatopsis . It contained MK-9(H4) as the predominant menaquinone, C16 : 0, iso-C15 : 0 and iso-C16 : 0 as the major cellular fatty acids, and several phospholipids consisting of diphosphotidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylmethylethanolamine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylinositol, hydroxyphosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol mannosides and an unidentified glucosamine-containing phospholipid. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence and phylogenetic analyses, strain C12CA1T was closely related to Amycolatopsis vancoresmycina DSM 44592T (98.96 %) and Amycolatopsis pretoriensis JCM 12673T (98.82 %). The strain exhibited low DNA–DNA relatedness values with A. vancoresmycina DSM 44592T (6.9±0.2–11.6±1.9 %) and A. pretoriensis JCM 12673T (8.8±0.3–9.2±1.8 %). The DNA G+C content of strain C12CA1T was 69.8 mol%. Based on the results of polyphasic characterization, strain C12CA1T represents a novel species of the genus Amycolatopsis , for which the name Amycolatopsis silviterrae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is C12CA1T (=TBRC 1456T=NBRC 111116T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002687