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Thermomonas koreensis sp. nov., a mesophilic bacterium isolated from a ginseng field

¹ Department of Oriental Medicinal Material & Processing, College of Life Science, Kyung Hee University, 1 Seocheon, Kiheung Yongin, Kyunggi 449-701, South Korea
² Biopia Co., Ltd, 383-4 Singal-ri, Kiheung Yongin, Kyunggi-do 449-598, South Korea
³ Department of Oncology, Graduate School of East–West Medical Science, Kyung Hee University, 1 Seocheon, Kiheung Yongin, Kyunggi 449-701, South Korea

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Deok-Chun Yang
deokchunyang{at}yahoo.co.kr

A Gram-negative, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped, motile bacterium, strain Ko06^T, was isolated from soil from a ginseng field in South Korea and was characterized in order to determine its taxonomic position. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis revealed that strain Ko06^T belongs to the Gammaproteobacteria, and the highest levels of sequence similarity were with Thermomonas brevis LMG 21746^T (98.4 %), Thermomonas fusca LMG 21737^T (97.7 %), Thermomonas haemolytica A50-7-3^T (96.5 %) and Thermomonas hydrothermalis SGM-6^T (95.8 %). Chemotaxonomic data revealed that strain Ko06^T possesses ubiquinone Q-8 and that the predominant fatty acids are C_{15 : 0} iso, C_{11 : 0} iso and C_{11 : 0} iso 3-OH, all of which corroborated assignment of the strain to the genus Thermomonas. The results of DNA–DNA hybridization and physiological and biochemical tests clearly demonstrated that strain Ko06^T represents a distinct species. On the basis of these data, strain Ko06^T (=KCTC 12540^T=NBRC 101155^T) should be classified as the type strain of a novel Thermomonas species, for which the name Thermomonas koreensis sp. nov. is proposed.

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