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Glycomyces halotolerans sp. nov., a novel actinomycete isolated from a hypersaline habitat in Xinjiang, China

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A novel actinomycete strain, designated TRM 40137T, was isolated from a hypersaline habitat in Xinjiang Province, north-west China, and subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic study. The strain was aerobic, Gram-positive and the optimum NaCl concentration for growth was 4–5% (w/v). Phylogenetic analysis showed that strain TRM 40137T has a 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity of 95.02% with the described species Glycomyces sambucus E71T and can be distinguished from all previously described representatives of the genus Glycomyces. The whole-cell sugar pattern consisted of xylose and galactose. The predominant menaquinone was MK-10(H2) and the major fatty acids were anteiso-C15:0 and anteiso-C17:0. The phospholipid pattern consists of phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, three unknown aminophospholipids and two unknown phospholipids. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 68.8 mol%. A novel species Glycomyces halotolerans sp. nov. is proposed, with strain TRM 40137T (=CCTCC AA 2010013T = KCTC 19988T) as the type strain of G. halotolerans.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project no. 31060003, 31060001), Key Project for Department of Science and Technology of Ministry of Education of China (Project no. 209145), Opening Project by State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources. Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Project no. SKLMR-20090603), The Opening Project of Key Laboratory of Biogeography and Bioresource in Arid Land, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Project no. LBB-2010-004) and 973 Program (Project no. 2010CB134505).

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  1. Faculty of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Sichuan Agricultural, University, 625000, Yaan, People’s Republic of China

    Tong-Wei Guan & Xiao-Ping Zhang

  2. Key Laboratory of Protection and Utilization of Biological Resources in Tarim, Basin of Xinjiang Production & Construction Corps, Tarim University, 843300, Alar, Xinjiang, People’s Republic of China

    Tong-Wei Guan, Zhan-Feng Xia, Zheng-Jun Chen & Li-Li Zhang

  3. State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Tong-Wei Guan

  4. Key Laboratory of Marine Biological Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Xiamen, Fujian, 361005, People’s Republic of China

    Jing Xiao

  5. Key Laboratory of Biogeography and Bioresource in Arid Land, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 830011, Urumqi, People’s Republic of China

    Nan Wu

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The 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain TRM 40137T has been deposited in GenBank under the accession number HQ651156.

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Guan, TW., Xia, ZF., Xiao, J. et al. Glycomyces halotolerans sp. nov., a novel actinomycete isolated from a hypersaline habitat in Xinjiang, China. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 100, 137–143 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-011-9574-1

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