A new genus of the family Micromonosporaceae, Polymorphospora gen. nov., with description of Polymorphospora rubra sp. nov

• Published in: International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology Vol. 56; no. 8; pp. 1959 - 1964
• Main Authors: Tamura, Tomohiko, Hatano, Kazunori, Suzuki, Ken-ichiro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Reading Soc General Microbiol 01.08.2006; Society for General Microbiology
• Subjects: Actinobacteria - chemistry; Actinobacteria - classification; Actinobacteria - isolation & purification; Actinobacteria - physiology; Amino Acids - analysis; Bacteriology; Biological and medical sciences; Cell Wall - chemistry; Diaminopimelic Acid - analysis; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Japan; Lythraceae; Methylmannosides - analysis; Microbiology; Micromonosporaceae; Micromonosporaceae - classification; Micromonosporaceae - genetics; Molecular Sequence Data; Monosaccharides - analysis; Phylogeny; Plant Roots; Polymorphospora rubra; Quinones - analysis; Rhizophoraceae; RNA, Bacterial - genetics; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - genetics; Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; Soil Microbiology; Species Specificity; Systematics; Japan; Actinomycetales; New genus; Description; Taxonomy; Micromonosporaceae; Bacteria; Actinomycetes; New species
• ISSN: 1466-5026; 1466-5034
• DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.64046-0

NITE Biological Resource Center (NBRC), Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, 2-5-8 Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan Correspondence Tomohiko Tamura tamura-tomohiko{at}nite.go.jp Two actinomycete strains were isolated from soil surrounding mangrove roots. The isolates formed short spore chains with spores showing diverse shapes. The isolates contained glutamic acid, glycine, alanine and meso -diaminopimelic acid in the cell wall, 3- O -methylmannose, mannose, galactose and glucose as the whole-cell sugars and MK-10(H 6 ), MK-10(H 4 ), MK-9(H 6 ) and MK-9(H 4 ) as the predominant isoprenoid quinones. The isolates formed a distinct taxon in the phylogenetic tree of the Micromonosporaceae based on analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences and showed chemical and phenotypic properties that were different from members of all of the other genera of this family. Based on these observations, it is proposed that the novel isolates belong to a new genus, Polymorphospora gen. nov. The type species of the genus is proposed as Polymorphospora rubra sp. nov., with strain TT 97-42 T (=NBRC 101157 T =DSM 44947 T ) as the type strain. Abbreviations: A 2 pm, diaminopimelic acid; ISP, International Streptomyces Project The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the 16S rRNA gene sequences of strains TT 97-42 T and TT 97-44 are AB223089 and AB223090 , respectively.