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In Situ Isolation and Culturing of Recalcitrant Soil Bacteria using an Isolation Chip (iChip)
Published on: August 6, 2025
Nocardia terrae sp. nov., an actinomycete isolated from soil in Thailand
Pawina Kanchanasin1, Masahiro Yuki2, Takuji Kudo2
1Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, 254 Phayathai Road, Pathumwan, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand.
Abstract:
A novel actinomycete strain ET3-3T isolated from soil collected from Chachoengsao province, Thailand was taxonomic evaluated using a polyphasic approach. Chemotaxonomic analysis indicated that meso-diaminopimelic acid was the diagnostic diamino acid in the cell-wall peptidoglycan. Mycolic acids were present. Ribose, arabinose, and galactose were detected in its whole-cell hydrolysates. The strain comprised C16:0 and TBSA 10-methyl C18:0 as the main fatty acids and MK-8(H4ω-cycl) as the predominant menaquinone. Major polar lipids were phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylinositol mannoside, phosphatidylethanolamine, and diphosphatidylglycerol. The results of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that strain ET3-3T was closely related to Nocardia seriolae JCM 30082T (99.2%), Nocardia yunnanensis JCM 30082T (98.4%), and Nocardia concava JCM 12351T (98.2%). The draft genome of ET3-3T was 9.31 Mb with 8826 coding sequences with an average G + C content of 68.0%. The comparison of the draft genome of strain ET3-3T and N. seriolae NBRC 15557T showed the ANIb, ANIm and the digital DNA-DNA hybridization values of 86.3%, 88.5% and 32.9%, respectively. The results of the taxonomic analysis suggested that strain ET3-3T represented a novel species of the genus Nocardia for which the name Nocardia terrae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is ET3-3T (= JCM 33776T = TISTR 2837T).
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