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Endophytic actinobacteria that lived in any associations with plant tissues represented a rather unexplored area of actinobacteria compared with soils. Gynura cusimbua was a kind of medicinal plant which had prevention effects for high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, atherosclerosis, etc. Endophytic actinobacteria of G. cusimbua might produce some secondary metabolites which had the same function as their host. Stem samples of G. cusimbua collected from Hainan Province were used to study their endophytic actinobacteria to find some new compounds. In order to avoid vast proportions of the host plant DNA in the metagenomic library, the strategies of enrichment of the microorganism cells after tissue digestion and exclusion of 16S rRNA gene derived from the plastid by digested with PvuII were used. Two sets of actinobacteria specific primers were used for targeting endophytic actinobacteria from metagenomic library. 63 positive clones of actinobacteria were selected for sequencing and constructing the phylogenetic tree of 16S rRNA gene, and the 16S rRNA gene sequence of 59 strains among them had higher similar to the closest type strain and belonged to Microbacterium, Arthrobacter, Micrococcus, Curtobacterium, Okibacterium, Quadrisphaera and Kineococcus, respectively. Others were in low similarity and belonged to unclassified Micrococcineae, unclassified Intrasporangiaceae and unclassified Microbacteriaceae.
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Zhang, X., Gao, Z., Zhang, M. et al. Analysis of endophytic actinobacteria species diversity in the stem of Gynura cusimbua by 16S rRNA gene clone library. Microbiology 85, 379–385 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0026261716030176
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