Abstract

A novel actinobacterium, YIM 132084T, was isolated from Lepraria sp. lichen collected from Yunnan province, south-west PR China and identified by a polyphasic taxonomic approach. The strain was Gram-stain-positive, aerobic, catalase-positive, oxidase-negative, non-motile and coccus-shaped. Colonies were round, convex, smooth and light orange yellow in color. It grew at 10-40°C (optimum 28°C), at pH 6.0-11.0 (optimum pH 7.0) and in the presence of 0-4% NaCl (optimum 0%). Strain YIM 132084T comprised diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylinositol as the major polar lipids, MK-8(H4) as the predominant menaquinone, and anteiso-C15:0, anteiso-C17:0, iso-C15:0 and iso-C16:0 as major fatty acids. Strain YIM 132084T had meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid in the cell-wall peptidoglycan, and mannose, ribose, glucose and rhamnose as whole-cell sugars. The 16S rRNA gene sequence showed high level of similarity with Nakamurella flavida KCTC 19127T (97.7%) and Nakamurella flava CGMCC 4.7524T (97.7%). The G + C content of the genomic DNA was 72.4mol%. Based on draft genome sequences, strain YIM 132084T showed an average nucleotide identity value of 76.1% and 74.9%, a digital DNA-DNA hybridization value of 20.9% and 20.6% with the reference strains Nakamurella flavida and Nakamurella flava, respectively. The results of the phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic analyses showed that strain YIM 132084T represents a novel species of the genus Nakamurella, for which the name Nakamurella leprariae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is YIM 132084T (= CGMCC 4.7667T = NBRC 114280T = KCTC 49367T).

Highlights

  • The genus Nakamurella was proposed by Tao in 2004, as a substitute for the illegitimate genus Microsphaera by Yoshimi et al, at the same time, the family of Nakamurellaceae replaced Microsphaeraceae (Tao et al 2004 and Yoshimi et al 1996)

  • A novel actinobacterium, YIM 132084T, was isolated from Lepraria sp. lichen collected from Yunnan province, south-west PR China and identified by a polyphasic taxonomic approach

  • The results of the phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic analyses, showed that strain YIM 132084T represents a novel species of the genus Nakamurella, for which the name Nakamurella leprariae sp. nov. is proposed

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Introduction

The genus Nakamurella was proposed by Tao in 2004, as a substitute for the illegitimate genus Microsphaera by Yoshimi et al, at the same time, the family of Nakamurellaceae replaced Microsphaeraceae (Tao et al 2004 and Yoshimi et al 1996). The 16S rRNA gene sequence showed high level of similarity with Nakamurella flavida KCTC 19127T Strain YIM 132084T showed an average nucleotide identity value of 76.1 % and 74.9 %, a digital DNA-DNA hybridizations value of 20.9 % and 20.6 % with the reference strains Nakamurella flavida and Nakamurella flava based on draft genome sequences, respectively.

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