TY - JOUR A1 - Del Carmen Montero-Calasanz, M. A1 - Göker, M. A1 - Rohde, M. A1 - Schumann, P. A1 - Pötter, G. A1 - Spröer, C. A1 - Gorbushina, Anna A1 - Klenk, H.-P. T1 - Geodermatophilus siccatus sp. nov., isolated from arid sand of the Saharan desert in Chad N2 - A novel Gram-positive, aerobic, actinobacterial strain, CF6/1T, was isolated in 2007 during environmental screening of arid desert soil in the Sahara near to Ourba, Chad. The isolate was found to grow best in a temperature range of 20–37 °C and at pH 6.0–8.5 and showed no NaCl tolerance, forming black-coloured and nearly circular colonies on GYM agar. Chemotaxonomic and molecular characteristics determined for the isolate match those previously described for members of the genus Geodermatophilus. The DNA G + C content of the novel strain was determined to be 74.9 mol %. The peptidoglycan was found to contain meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid. The main phospholipids were determined to be phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylcholine, diphosphatidylglycerol and traces of phosphatidylglycerol; MK-9(H4) was identified as the dominant menaquinone and galactose as the diagnostic sugar. The major cellular fatty acids were found to be the branched-chain saturated acids iso-C16:0 and iso-C15:0, as well as C17:1ω8c. The 16S rRNA gene sequence shows 97.5–97.9 % sequence identity with the four validly named or at least effectively published members of the genus: Geodermatophilus obscurus (97.5 %), Geodermatophilus arenarius (97.7 %), Geodermatophilus ruber (97.9 %) and Geodermatophilus nigrescens (97.9 %). Based on the results from this polyphasic taxonomic analysis and DNA–DNA hybridizations with all type strains of the genus, we propose that strain CF6/1T represents a novel species, Geodermatophilus siccatus, with the type strain CF6/1T = DSM 45419T = CCUG 62765T = MTCC 11414T. KW - Actinomycetes KW - Geodermatophilaceae KW - Taxonomy KW - Xerophiles KW - Phenotype microarray PY - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-012-9824-x SN - 0003-6072 SN - 1572-9699 VL - 103 IS - 3 SP - 449 EP - 456 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht AN - OPUS4-28082 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Montero-Calasanz, M.C. A1 - Göker, M. A1 - Pötter, G. A1 - Rohde, M. A1 - Spröer, C. A1 - Schumann, P. A1 - Gorbushina, Anna A1 - Klenk, H.-P. T1 - Geodermatophilus arenarius sp. nov., a xerophilic actinomycete isolated from Saharan desert sand in Chad N2 - A novel Gram-positive, aerobic, actinobacterial strain, CF5/4T, was isolated in 2007 during an environmental screening of arid desert soil in Ouré Cassoni, Chad. The isolate grew best in a temperature range of 28–40 °C and at pH 6.0-8.5, with 0-1 % (w/v) NaCl, forming brown-coloured and nearly circular colonies on GYM agar. Chemotaxonomic and molecular characteristics of the isolate matched those described for members of the genus Geodermatophilus. The DNA G + C content of the novel strain was 75.9 mol %. The peptidoglycan contained meso-diaminopimelic acid as diagnostic diaminoacid. The main phospholipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylinositol, diphosphatidylglycerol and a small amount of phosphatidylglycerol; MK-9(H4) was identified as the dominant menaquinone and galactose as diagnostic sugar. The major cellular fatty acids were branched-chain saturated acids: iso-C15:0 and iso-C16:0. The 16S rRNA gene showed 96.2–98.3 % sequence identity with the three members of the genus Geodermatophilus: G. obscurus (96.2 %), G. ruber (96.5 %), and G. nigrescens (98.3 %). Based on the chemotaxonomic results, 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis and DNA–DNA hybridization with the type strain of G. nigrescens, the isolate is proposed to represent a novel species, Geodermatophilus arenarius (type strain CF5/4T = DSM 45418T = MTCC 11413T = CCUG 62763T). KW - Xerophiles KW - Actinomycetes KW - Geodermatophilaceae KW - Taxonomy KW - Sahara desert PY - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-012-0486-4 SN - 1431-0651 SN - 1433-4909 VL - 16 IS - 6 SP - 903 EP - 909 PB - Springer CY - Tokyo AN - OPUS4-26933 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -