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Agrococcus lahaulensis sp. nov., isolated from a cold desert of the Indian Himalayas

¹ Microbial Type Culture Collection and Gene Bank (MTCC), Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39-A, Chandigarh, 160 036, India
² DSMZ – Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Mascheroder Weg 1b, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany
³ Department of Microbiology, Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), Amritsar, 143 005, India

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S. Mayilraj
mayil{at}imtech.res.in

The taxonomic position of a lemon-yellow-pigmented actinobacterium, strain K22-21^T, isolated from a soil sample from Lahaul-Spiti Valley in the Indian Himalayas, was determined using a polyphasic approach. The strain had phenotypic and chemical properties that were consistent with its classification in the genus Agrococcus. Alignment of the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain K22-21^T with sequences from Agrococcus jenensis DSM 9580^T, Agrococcus baldri DSM 14215^T and Agrococcus citreus DSM 12453^T revealed similarities of 98.5, 96.8 and 96.6 %, respectively. However, the level of DNA–DNA relatedness between strain K22-21^T and A. jenensis was 55.1 %. The novel strain could be distinguished from type strains of the three species of the genus Agrococcus using DNA–DNA relatedness and phenotypic data. Based on these differences, strain K22-21^T (=MTCC 7154^T=DSM 17612^T) should be classified as the type strain of a novel species of Agrococcus, for which the name Agrococcus lahaulensis sp. nov. is proposed.

The fatty acid compositions of strain K22-21^T and the type strains of the three known Agrococcus species are available as supplementary material in IJSEM Online.

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