IJSEM Track the topics, authors and articles important to you
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Supplementary Figure
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via CrossRef
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Lee, M.
Right arrow Articles by Lee, S.-T.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Lee, M.
Right arrow Articles by Lee, S.-T.
Agricola
Right arrow Articles by Lee, M.
Right arrow Articles by Lee, S.-T.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 55 (2005), 1409-1413; DOI  10.1099/ijs.0.63448-0
© 2005 International Union of Microbiological Societies

Tetragenococcus koreensis sp. nov., a novel rhamnolipid-producing bacterium

Myungjin Lee1,2, Myung Kyum Kim2, Marc Vancanneyt3, Jean Swings3, Seong-Hye Kim2, Myung Suk Kang2 and Sung-Taik Lee2

1 NeoPharm Co., Ltd, BVC-307, KRIBB, 52 Oeun-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-333, Republic of Korea
2 Environmental and Molecular Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 373-1 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea
3 BCCM/LMG Bacteria Collection, Laboratory of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium

Correspondence
Sung-Taik Lee
e_stlee{at}kaist.ac.kr

A Gram-positive, non-motile, non-spore-forming coccus (strain JST) was isolated from kimchi (a traditional Korean food) and investigated using a polyphasic taxonomic approach. The 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity between strain JST and its closest relative, Tetragenococcus halophilus IAM 1676T, was 98·1 %. The level of DNA–DNA relatedness between the two strains was 9·7 %. Strain JST had a DNA G+C content of 38·3 % and a cellular fatty acid profile containing 16 : 0, 18 : 1 and cyclo fatty acids. Phylogenetic data and genomic and phenotypic features demonstrated that strain JST represents a novel species, for which the name Tetragenococcus koreensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is JST (=KCTC 3924T=DSM 16501T=LMG 22864T).

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain JST is AY690334.

A scanning electron micrograph of cells of strain JST is available as supplementary material in IJSEM Online.






HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
INT J SYST EVOL MICROBIOL MICROBIOLOGY J GEN VIROL
J MED MICROBIOL ALL SGM JOURNALS
Copyright © 2005 by the International Union of Microbiological Societies.