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Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 56 (2006), 283-287; DOI  10.1099/ijs.0.63756-0
© 2006 International Union of Microbiological Societies

Myceligenerans crystallogenes sp. nov., isolated from Roman catacombs

Ingrid Groth1, Peter Schumann2, Barbara Schütze1, Juan M. Gonzalez3, Leonila Laiz3, Maija-Liisa Suihko4 and Erko Stackebrandt2

1 Leibniz-Institut für Naturstoff-Forschung und Infektionsbiologie e. V., Hans-Knöll-Institut, Beutenbergstrasse 11a, 07745 Jena, Germany
2 DSMZ – Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Mascheroder Weg 1b, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany
3 Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiologia, CSIC, Apartado 1052, 41080 Sevilla, Spain
4 VTT Biotechnology, PO Box 1500, FI-02044 VTT, Finland

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Ingrid Groth
Ingrid.Groth{at}hki-jena.de

Three xylan-degrading actinobacterial strains were isolated from different sampling sites in the Roman catacombs of Domitilla and San Callisto. The organisms showed morphological and chemotaxonomic properties such as peptidoglycan type A4{alpha}, L-lys–L-thr–D-Glu; whole-cell sugars (glucose, mannose and galactose); octa-, hexa- and tetrahydrogenated menaquinones with nine isoprene units; phosphatidylglycerol and diphosphatidylglycerol as the major phospholipids; anteiso-C15 : 0, iso-C15 : 0 and iso-C16 : 0 as the predominant fatty acids; and a DNA G+C content of 72 mol%. These features are consistent with affiliation of these isolates to the genus Myceligenerans. The three isolates shared a 16S rRNA gene similarity of 99·9 % and were most closely related to Myceligenerans xiligouense DSM 15700T (97·9 % sequence similarity). The low level of DNA–DNA relatedness (about 14 %) and the differences in phenotypic characteristics between the novel strains and M. xiligouense DSM 15700T justify the proposal of a novel species of the genus Myceligenerans, Myceligenerans crystallogenes sp. nov., with CD12E2-27T (=HKI 0369T=DSM 17134T=NCIMB 14061T=VTT E-032285T) as the type strain.

Published online ahead of print on 30 September 2005 as DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63756-0.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain CD12E2-27T (=HKI 0369T) is AY928181.

Tables showing the physiological test results for the strains in this study are available as supplementary material in IJSEM Online.




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