@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002724, author = "Wang, Qian and Song, Yali and Choi, Lina and Liu, Hongyu and Wang, Gejiao and Li, Mingshun", title = "Deinococcus rufus sp. nov., isolated from soil near an iron factory", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2018", volume = "68", number = "5", pages = "1622-1626", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002724", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002724", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "chemotaxonomic", keywords = "Deinococcus", keywords = "genotypic", keywords = "phenotypic", abstract = "A Gram-stain-negative, non-motile, rod-shaped, red-pigmented strain, designated W37T, was isolated from soil near an iron factory in Busan (Republic of Korea). Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain W37T was most closely related to Deinococcus yunweiensis YIM 007T (98.3 %) and Deinococcus radioresistens 8AT (96.3 %). The DNA–DNA relatedness between strain W37T and D. yunweiensis YIM 007T was 50.5 %. The predominant respiratory quinone was MK-8. The major polar lipids were an unidentified phosphoglycolipid, an unidentified aminophospholipid, four unidentified glycolipids, two unidentified phospholipids and an unidentified lipid. The major fatty acids (>5 %) of strain W37T were summed feature 3 (C16 : 1ω7c and/or iso-C15 : 0 2-OH), C16 : 0, C17 : 1ω8c and iso-C17 : 1ω9c. The DNA G+C content was 69.0 mol%. Moreover, the chemo-physical characteristics of strain W37T clearly differed from those of related species, including ranges of growth temperature and pH, positive activity for 4-hydroxybenzoate and negative activity for cystine arylamidase. Phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and genotypic analyses indicated that strain W37T represents a novel species of the genus Deinococcus , for which the name Deinococcus rufus sp. nov., is proposed. The type strain is W37T (=KCTC 33913T=CCTCC AB 2017081T).", }