title: Gordonia polyisoprenivorans sp. nov., a rubber-degrading actinomycete isolated from an automobile tyre.
abstract: A rubber-degrading bacterium (strain Kd2T) was isolated from fouling tyre water inside a deteriorated automobile tyre. The strain was aerobic, Grampositive, produced elementary branching hyphae which fragmented into rod/coccus-like elements and showed chemotaxonomic markers which were consistent with the classification of Gordonia, i.e. meso-diaminopimelic acid, N-glycolyl muramic acid, arabinose and galactose as diagnostic sugars, a fatty acid pattern composed of unbranched saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids with a considerable amount of tuberculostearic acid, and mycolic acids comprising 58-66 carbon atoms with two principal mycolic acids C60 and C62 counting for over 60%. Results of 16S rDNA analyses as well as chemotaxonomic results, led to the conclusion that Gordonia sp. strain Kd2T (= DSM 44302T) represents a new species within the genus Gordonia for which the name Gordonia polyisoprenivorans is proposed.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Münster, Germany.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Linos
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Steinbüchel
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Spröer
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Kroppenstedt
mesh_terms: D000192:Actinomycetales / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D001336:Automobiles; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D001673:Biodegradation, Environmental; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000032:analysis; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009171:Mycolic Acids / Q000032:analysis; D010802:Phylogeny; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D012408:Rubber / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal; D005227:Fatty Acids; D009171:Mycolic Acids; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; D012408:Rubber