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Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 57 (2007), 2151-2154; DOI  10.1099/ijs.0.65109-0
© 2007 International Union of Microbiological Societies

Enterococcus camelliae sp. nov., isolated from fermented tea leaves in Thailand

Sirapan Sukontasing1, Somboon Tanasupawat1, Somporn Moonmangmee2, Jung-Sook Lee3 and Ken-ichiro Suzuki4

1 Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
2 Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand
3 Korean Collection for Type Cultures (KCTC), Biological Resource Center (BRC), Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Yusong, Daejeon 305-806, Korea
4 Biological Resource Center (NBRC), Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan

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Somboon Tanasupawat
Somboon.T{at}chula.ac.th

A Gram-positive and catalase-negative coccus that formed chains, strain FP15-1T, isolated from fermented tea leaves (‘miang’), was studied systematically. The strain was facultatively anaerobic and produced L-lactic acid from glucose. Demethylmenaquinone (DMK-7) was the major menaquinone. Straight-chain unsaturated fatty acids C16 : 1 and C18 : 1 were the dominant components. The DNA G+C content was 37.8 mol%. On the basis of 16S rRNA and RNA polymerase {alpha} subunit (rpoA) gene sequence analysis, strain FP15-1T was closely related to Enterococcus italicus KCTC 5373T, with 99.2 and 93.8 % similarity, respectively. The strain could be clearly distinguished from E. italicus ATCC 5373T by low DNA–DNA relatedness (≤33.8 %) and phenotypic characteristics. Therefore, this strain represent a novel species of the genus Enterococcus, for which the name Enterococcus camelliae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is FP15-1T (=KCTC 13133T =NBRC 101868T =NRIC 0105T =TISTR 932T =PCU 277T).

Abbreviations: DMK, demethylmenaquinone

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the 16S rRNA and rpoA gene sequences of strain FP15-1T are respectively EF154454 and EF197993.

16S rRNA gene sequence-based maximum-likelihood and maximum-parsimony trees are available as supplementary material with the online version of this paper.




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