menaquinone-6 and carbendazim

The taxonomic status of a carbendazim-degrading strain, mbc-2(T), isolated from soil under the long-term application of carbendazim in China was determined by means of a polyphasic study. The cells were Gram-stain-positive, motile and rod-shaped. Strain mbc-2(T) grew optimally at pH 7.0, 30-35 °C and in the presence of 1% (w/v) NaCl. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain mbc-2(T) fell within the genus Nocardioides, forming a coherent cluster with the type strain of Nocardioides hankookensis, with which it exhibited 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity values of 97.9%. The chemotaxonomic properties of strain mbc-2(T) were consistent with those of the genus Nocardioides: the cell-wall peptidoglycan type was based on ll-2,6-diaminopimelic acid, the predominant menaquinone was MK-8 (H4) and the major fatty acid was iso-C(16 : 0). The major polar lipids were phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, diphosphatidylglycerol, unknown phospholipids and an unknown aminolipid. The DNA G+C content was 72 mol%. Strain mbc-2(T) exhibited DNA-DNA relatedness values of 12.5±1.5%, 23.7±2.7% and 26.3±3.2% with respect to Nocardioides hankookensis DS-30(T), Nocardioides aquiterrae GW-9(T) and Nocardioides pyridinolyticus OS4(T). On the basis of the data obtained, strain mbc-2(T) represents a novel species of the genus Nocardioides, for which the name Nocardioides soli sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is mbc-2(T) ( = KACC 17152(T) = CCTCC AB 2012934(T)).

Topics: Actinomycetales; Bacterial Typing Techniques; Benzimidazoles; Carbamates; China; Diaminopimelic Acid; DNA, Bacterial; Fatty Acids; Fungicides, Industrial; Molecular Sequence Data; Nucleic Acid Hybridization; Peptidoglycan; Phospholipids; Phylogeny; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Soil Microbiology; Soil Pollutants; Vitamin K 2

A Gram-positive, aerobic, non-motile, mesophilic strain, djl-6(T), able to degrade carbendazim, was isolated from a carbendazim-contaminated soil sample from Jiangsu province, China. The taxonomic position of this isolate was analysed by using a polyphasic approach. Chemotaxonomic analysis including peptidoglycan type, diagnostic sugar composition, fatty acid profile, menaquinones, polar lipids and mycolic acids showed that the characteristics of strain djl-6(T) were in good agreement with those of the genus Rhodococcus. DNA-DNA hybridization showed that it had low genomic relatedness with Rhodococcus baikonurensis DSM 44587(T) (31.8 %), Rhodococcus erythropolis DSM 43066(T) (23.8 %) and Rhodococcus globerulus DSM 43954(T) (17.7 %), the three type strains to which strain djl-6(T) was most closely related based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis (99.78, 99.25 and 98.91 % similarity, respectively). Based on the phenotypic properties and DNA-DNA hybridization data, strain djl-6(T) (=CGMCC 1.6580(T) =KCTC 19205(T)) is proposed as the type strain of a novel Rhodococcus species, Rhodococcus qingshengii sp. nov.

Topics: Aerobiosis; Bacterial Typing Techniques; Benzimidazoles; Carbamates; Carbohydrates; China; DNA, Bacterial; DNA, Ribosomal; Fatty Acids; Genes, rRNA; Locomotion; Molecular Sequence Data; Mycolic Acids; Nucleic Acid Hybridization; Phospholipids; Phylogeny; Rhodococcus; RNA, Bacterial; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; Soil Microbiology; Temperature; Vitamin K 2