Kocuria polaris sp. nov., an orange-pigmented psychrophilic bacterium isolated from an Antarctic cyanobacterial mat sample

Strain CMS 76or T , an orange-pigmented bacterium, was isolated from a cyanobacterial mat sample from a pond located in McMurdo Dry Valley, Antarctica. On the basis of chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic properties, strain CMS 76or T was identified as a member of the genus Kocuria. It exhibited a 16S rD...

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Main Authors: Reddy, Gundlapally S. N., Prakash, Jogadhenu S. S., Prabahar, Vadivel, Matsumoto, Genki I., Stackebrandt, Erko, Shivaji, Sisinthy
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Society for General Microbiology 2003
Subjects:
QL Zoology
Antarctic
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:http://repository.ias.ac.in/64294/
http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/content/53/1/183.abstract?sid=a193c8f8-97a3-49ff-936a-9392ecc4141c
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Summary:Strain CMS 76or T , an orange-pigmented bacterium, was isolated from a cyanobacterial mat sample from a pond located in McMurdo Dry Valley, Antarctica. On the basis of chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic properties, strain CMS 76or T was identified as a member of the genus Kocuria. It exhibited a 16S rDNA similarity of 99ยท8% and DNA-DNA similarity of 71% with Kocuria rosea (ATCC 186 T ). Phenotypic traits confirmed that strain CMS 76or T and K. rosea were well differentiated. Furthermore, strain CMS 76or T could be differentiated from the other reported species of Kocuria, namely Kocuria kristinae (ATCC 27570 T ), Kocuria varians (ATCC 15306 T ), Kocuria rhizophila (DSM 11926 T ) and Kocuria palustris (DSM 11025 T ), on the basis of a number of phenotypic features. Therefore, it is proposed that strain CMS 76or T (=MTCC 3702 T =DSM 14382 T ) be assigned to a novel species of the genus Kocuria, as Kocuria polaris.

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