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Dongmei Li1, Weiwei Zheng1, Junwei Zhao1
1Key Laboratory of Agriculture Biological Functional Gene of Heilongjiang Provincial Education Committee, Northeast Agricultural University, No. 59 Mucai Street, Xiangfang District, Harbin 150030, PR China.
Abstract:
A novel actinobacterium, designated strain NEAU-LZC 7T, was isolated from soil collected from Mount Song and characterized using a polyphasic approach. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequence indicated that strain NEAU-LZC 7T belonged to the genus Lentzea, with highest sequence similarity to Lentzea violacea JCM 10975T (98.1 %). Morphological and chemotaxonomic characteristics of the strain also supported its assignment to the genus Lentzea. However, DNA-DNA relatedness, physiological and biochemical data showed that strain NEAU-LZC 7T could be distinguished from its closest relative. Therefore, strain NEAU-LZC 7T represents a novel species of the genus Lentzea, for which the name Lentzea soli sp. nov. is proposed, with NEAU-LZC 7T (=CCTCC AA 2017027T=JCM 32384T) as the type strain.
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