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Microbispora camponoti sp. nov., a novel actinomycete isolated from the cuticle of Camponotus japonicus Mayr

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A novel actinomycete, designated strain 2C-HV3T, was isolated from the cuticle of Camponotus japonicus Mayr collected from Harbin, Heilongjiang province, north China and characterised using a polyphasic approach. The 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain 2C-HV3T showed that it has high sequence similarities with Microbispora bryophytorum NEAU-TX2-2T (99.9 %), Microbispora amethystogenes JCM 3021T (98.9 %) and Microbispora rosea subsp. rosea JCM 3006T (98.6 %). Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA and gyrB gene sequences demonstrated that strain 2C-HV3T clusters with M. bryophytorum NEAU-TX2-2T using two tree-making algorithms. Moreover, key morphological and chemotaxonomic properties also confirmed the affiliation of strain 2C-HV3T to the genus Microbispora. Longitudinal paired spores were observed to be born on short sporophores branching from the aerial hyphae. The cell wall was found to contain meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid; madurose was found in the whole cell hydrolysate. The polar lipid profile was found to consist of diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylmonomethylethanolamine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylinositolmannoside, ninhydrin-positive glycophospholipids, an unidentified phospholipid and an unidentified glycolipid. The predominant menaquinones were identified as MK-9(H2) and MK-9(H4). The major fatty acids were identified as 10-methyl C17:0 and iso-C16:0. However, a combination of DNA–DNA hybridization results and some phenotypic characteristics demonstrated that strain 2C-HV3T can be distinguished from its closely related relatives. Consequently, it is proposed that strain 2C-HV3T represents a new species of the genus Microbispora, for which the name Microbispora camponoti sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 2C-HV3T (=CGMCC 4.7281T = DSM 100527T).

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This work was supported in part by grants from the National Outstanding Youth Foundation (No. 31225024), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31471832, 31171913, 31500010, 31572070 and 31372006), the National Key Technology R&D Program (No. 2012BAD19B06), Chang Jiang Scholar Candidates Program for Provincial Universities in Heilongjiang (CSCP), the Youth Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province (No. QC2014C013), the “Young Talents” Project of Northeast Agricultural University (14QC02), the Sicence and Technology Research Project of Heilongjiang Provincial Educational Commission (No. 12541001), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2014M561319) and the Heilongjiang Postdoctoral Fund (LBH-Z14027).

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Han, C., Liu, C., Zhao, J. et al. Microbispora camponoti sp. nov., a novel actinomycete isolated from the cuticle of Camponotus japonicus Mayr. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 109, 215–223 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-015-0625-x

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