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Reclassification of Streptomyces caeruleus as a synonym of Actinoalloteichus cyanogriseus and reclassification of Streptomyces spheroides and Streptomyces laceyi as later synonyms of Streptomyces niveus

¹ NITE Biological Resource Center (NBRC), National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, 2-5-8 Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
² Microbial Genomics and Bioprocessing Research Unit, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Peoria, IL 61604, USA
³ Bioproducts and Biocatalysis Research Unit, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Peoria, IL 61604, USA

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Tomohiko Tamura
tamura-tomohiko{at}nite.go.jp

Previous studies have proposed that Streptomyces caeruleus is an earlier heterotypic synonym for Streptomyces niveus and Streptomyces spheroides. In this study, phylogenetic analysis of the almost complete 16S rRNA gene sequences of the Streptomyces caeruleus type strains NBRC 13344^T, JCM 4014^T and NRRL B-2194^T revealed that S. caeruleus was closely related to Actinoalloteichus cyanogriseus and not to S. niveus, S. spheroides or any other species of the genus Streptomyces. Moreover, the diagnostic cell-wall diamino acid was found to be meso-diaminopimelic acid in S. caeruleus and DNA–DNA hybridization studies revealed that S. caeruleus NBRC 13344^T was a member of the same species as A. cyanogriseus NBRC 14455^T. Based on these chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic data, it is proposed that Streptomyces caeruleus (Baldacci 1944) Pridham et al. 1958 be reclassified as a heterotypic synonym of Actinalloteichus cyanogriseus Tamura et al. 2000. Furthermore, based on phylogenetic, morphological and MALDI-TOF MS analyses, it is proposed that the species Streptomyces laceyi Manfio et al. 2004 and Streptomyces spheroides Wallick et al. 1956 are reclassified as later heterotypic synonyms of Streptomyces niveus Smith et al. 1956.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the 16S rRNA gene sequences of Streptomyces caeruleus NBRC 13344^T and Streptomyces caeruleus NRRL B-2194^T are AB184345 and EF178675, respectively.

A supplementary figure showing the MALDI-TOF mass spectra of Streptomyces niveus NRRL 2466^T, Streptomyces spheroides NRRL 2449^T and Streptomyces laceyi NRRL B-24638^T mycelium grown on glucose–proline novobiocin production medium is available with the online version of this paper.

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