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Nocardia tenerifensis sp. nov.

¹ Institut für Angewandte Mikrobiologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26–32, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
² Institut für Bakteriologie, Mykologie und Hygiene, Veterinärmedizinische Universität, A-1210 Wien, Austria
³ Biofrontera Discovery GmbH, D-69123 Heidelberg, Germany
⁴ Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Universität Wien, A-1030 Wien, Austria

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Peter Kämpfer
peter.kaempfer{at}agrar.uni-giessen.de

A Gram-positive, non-spore-forming bacterium (GW39-1573^T) was isolated from soil of the Spanish island of Tenerife. 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity studies showed that strain GW39-1573^T belonged to the genus Nocardia and was most closely related to Nocardia brasiliensis (98·0 %), Nocardia beijingensis (97·3 %), Nocardia transvalensis (97·5 %), Nocardia asteroides (97·2 %) and Nocardia farcinica (97·0 %). Strain GW39-1573^T could be distinguished from all other validly described Nocardia species by sequence similarity values of less than 97 %. Chemotaxonomic data [major menaquinone: MK-8(H_{4, -cycl}); major polar lipids: diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylinositol mannoside and an unknown glycolipid and an unknown phospholipid; major fatty acids: C_{16 : 0}, C_{18 : 1}9c and 10 methyl C_{16 : 0}] and the presence of mycolic acids supported the affiliation of strain GW39-1573^T to the genus Nocardia. The results of DNA–DNA hybridizations and physiological and biochemical tests allowed genotypic and phenotypic differentiation of strain GW39-1573^T from those related species that showed 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity values of greater than 97 %. Strain GW39-1573^T merits species status, and the name Nocardia tenerifensis is proposed with the type strain GW39-1573^T (=DSM 44704^T=CIP 107929^T).

The EMBL accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of Nocardia tenerifensis GW39-1573^T is AJ556157.

Details of the major fatty acids of N. tenerifensis GW39-1573^T and phylogenetic trees showing the relationship of N. tenerifensis with members of the genus Nocardia are available in IJSEM Online.

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