HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS		QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced] Author: Keyword(s): Year:  Vol:  Page:

This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) Supplementary Table Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Citation Map Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via CrossRef Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Chou, J.-H. Articles by Chen, W.-M. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Chou, J.-H. Articles by Chen, W.-M. Agricola Articles by Chou, J.-H. Articles by Chen, W.-M.

Nocardioides fonticola sp. nov., a novel actinomycete isolated from spring water

¹ Department of Soil Environmental Science, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
² Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Seafood Science, National Kaohsiung Marine University, 142 Hai-Chuan Road, Nan-Tzu, Kaohsiung City 811, Taiwan, ROC

Correspondence
Wen-Ming Chen
p62365{at}ms28.hinet.net

A Gram-positive, rod-shaped, yellow-pigmented actinomycete, designated strain NAA-13^T, was isolated from a freshwater spring located in Kaoshiung, southern Taiwan. This strain was characterized using a polyphasic taxonomic approach. The organism had chemotaxonomic and morphological properties consistent with its classification in the genus Nocardioides. The strain contained LL-diaminopimelic acid as the principal diamino acid of the peptidoglycan, MK-8(H₄) as the major menaquinone, and iso-C_{16 : 0} and C_{17 : 0} as the predominant fatty acids. 16S rRNA gene sequence studies showed that the strain formed a monophyletic branch at the periphery of the evolutionary radiation occupied by the genus Nocardioides; its closest neighbours were Nocardioides insulae DS-51^T (94.9 % similarity), Nocardioides pyridinolyticus KCTC 0074BP^T (96.5 % similarity) and Nocardioides aquiterrae GW-9^T (96.6 % similarity). The DNA G+C content of strain NAA-13^T was 71.8 mol%. On the basis of phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic data, strain NAA-13^T represents a novel species of the genus Nocardioides, for which the name Nocardioides fonticola sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is NAA-13^T (=LMG 24213^T=BCRC 16874^T).

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain NAA-13^T is EF626689.

A table showing the cellular fatty acid composition of strain NAA-13^T grown on R2A agar is available with the online version of this paper.

This article has been cited by other articles:

				J.-H. Yoon, S.-J. Kang, S. Park, W. Kim, and T.-K. Oh Nocardioides caeni sp. nov., isolated from wastewater Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, November 1, 2009; 59(11): 2794 - 2797. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]