title: Microbacterium lindanitolerans sp. nov., isolated from hexachlorocyclohexane-contaminated soil.
abstract: A Gram-stain-positive, aerobic, rod-shaped, yellow actinobacterium, designated MNA2(T), was isolated from a hexachlorocyclohexane-contaminated soil in North India. Strain MNA2(T) showed 95 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with Microbacterium halotolerans YIM 70130(T). Phylogenetic analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain MNA2(T) belonged to a clade represented by the genus Microbacterium of the family Microbacteriaceae. Strain MNA2(T) contained anteiso-C(15 : 0), anteiso-C(17 : 0), iso-C(16 : 0) and iso-C(15 : 0) as the predominant fatty acids and diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol and two unknown polar lipids. The menaquinones were MK-12, MK-11, MK-13 and MK-10, in an approximate molar ratio of 45 : 40 : 13 : 3, respectively. The DNA G+C content was 65.3 mol%. The peptidoglycan was of the B type of cross-linkage with ornithine as the diagnostic diamino acid. The results of the phylogenetic, phenotypic and chemotaxonomic analysis indicate that strain MNA2(T) belongs to a previously unrecognized species of the genus Microbacterium, for which the name Microbacterium lindanitolerans sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is MNA2(T) (=DSM 22422(T) =CCM 7585(T)).
authors.affiliation: Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi 110 007, India.
authors.forename: Devi
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lal
authors.affiliation: Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi 110 007, India.
authors.forename: Sanjay Kumar
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.affiliation: DSMZ - Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Inhoffenstraße 7B, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schumann
authors.affiliation: Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi 110 007, India.
authors.forename: Rup
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lal
mesh_terms: D000192:Actinomycetales / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D001482:Base Composition; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D001556:Hexachlorocyclohexane / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D012988:Soil Microbiology; D012989:Soil Pollutants / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D005227:Fatty Acids; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; D012989:Soil Pollutants; D001556:Hexachlorocyclohexane