Streptomyces panacagri sp. nov., isolated from soil of a ginseng field

Yingshun Cui, Sang-Hoon Baek, Liang Wang, Hyung-Gwan Lee, Changhao Cui, Sung-Taik Lee, Wan-Taek Im

¹Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1, Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea

²KAIST Institute for Biocentry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea

Correspondence
Sung-Taik Lee e_stlee{at}kaist.ac.kr Wan-Taek Im wandra{at}kaist.ac.kr

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2012; 62(Pt 4):780–785 · https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.029942-0

Abstract

A Gram-positive, spore-forming, aerobic actinomycete, strain Gsoil 519^T, was isolated from soil of a ginseng field of Pocheon province in South Korea. The closest phylogenetic relatives were Sp080513GE-26^T (97.94 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity), NRRL B-24327^T (97.84 %), Streptomyces albus subsp. albus DSM 40313^T (97.84 %), NBRC 13015^T (97.81 %), NBRC 15415^T (97.81 %), NBRC 13078^T (97.81 %), YIM 80305^T (97.77 %) and NBRC 13041^T (97.67 %). The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 71.8 mol%. The chemotaxonomic data [MK-9(H₆) and MK-9(H₈) as the major menaquinones; ll-diaminopimelic acid as a component of the cell-wall peptidoglycan; ribose, xylose, mannose and glucose as the major cell-wall sugars; and anteiso-C_15 : 0, iso-C_15 : 0, iso-C_17 : 0, anteiso-C_17 : 0 and C_16 : 0 as the major fatty acids] supported the affiliation of strain Gsoil 519^T to the genus . The physiological and biochemical characteristics and the low level of DNA–DNA relatedness differentiated the isolate genotypically and phenotypically from recognized members of the genus . The isolate, therefore, represents a novel species, for which the name Streptomyces panacagri sp. nov. is proposed, with Gsoil 519^T ( = KCTC 19139^T = DSM 41871^T) as the type strain.