%A Shanmugam Mayilraj
%A K Suresh
%A R M Kroppenstedt
%A H S Saini
%O Copyright of this article belongs to International Union of Microbiological Societies.
%J International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology
%T Dietzia kunjamensis sp. nov., isolated from the Indian Himalayas.
%X A coral-red-pigmented actinobacterium, strain K30-10(T), was isolated from a soil sample from a cold desert of the Indian Himalayas. Chemical and phenotypic properties of strain K30-10(T) were consistent with its classification in the genus Dietzia. It showed 97.9 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to Dietzia maris MTCC 7011(T); similarities to the type strains of three other species of the genus, Dietzia natronolimnaea, Dietzia psychralcaliphila and Dietzia cinnamea, were 94.4-96.0 %. The DNA-DNA relatedness between K30-10(T) and the closely related strain D. maris MTCC 7011(T) was 59.2 %. The DNA G+C content of strain K30-10(T) was 67.0 mol%. Based on physiological and biochemical tests and genotypic differences between strain K30-10(T) and its closest phylogenetic relatives, it is proposed that this strain represents a novel species, Dietzia kunjamensis sp. nov.; the type strain is K30-10(T) (=MTCC 7007(T)=DSM 44907(T)=JCM 13325(T)).
%N Pt 7
%P 1667-71
%V 56
%D 2006
%I International Union of Microbiological Societies 
%L open142