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Taxonomic Status of Kitasatosporia, and Proposed Unification with Streptomyces on the Basis of Phenotypic and 16S rRNA Analysis and Emendation of Streptomyces Waksman and Henrici 1943, 339^AL

E. M. H. Wellington^1,*, E. Stackebrandt^2,, D. Sanders¹, J. Wolstrup³ and N. O. G. Jorgensen³

¹Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, England
²Institut fÜr Allgemeine Mikrobiologie, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat, 2300 Kiel, Germany
³Department of Microbiology, Institute of Ecology and Molecular Biology, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, DK-1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark

^* Corresponding author.

ABSTRACT

Species classified within the genus Kitasatosporia share many of the phenotypic characteristics typical of streptomycetes. By using a probabilistic identification scheme, they were identified with Streptomyces exfoliatus cluster 5, a species group within Streptomyces. The four species studied hybridized with a 16S rRNA genus probe for Streptomyces spp., indicating a close relationship between the two genera. The kitasatosporias were resistant to selected polyvalent streptomycete phages tested. Quantitative analysis showed that meso-diaminopimelic acid varied from 49 to 89% in Kitasatosporia species and from 1 to 16% in Streptomyces species depending on growth conditions. On the basis of 16S rRNA analysis, it is proposed to reduce Kitasatosporia to synonymy with Streptomyces. As a result, the new names proposed are Streptomyces mediocidicus comb. nov., Streptomyces phosalacineus comb. nov., Streptomyces setae comb. nov., and Streptomyces griseolosporeus comb. nov., nom. nov.

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