@article{open3449,
          volume = {76},
          number = {2},
           month = {February},
          author = {Namrata Jiya and Wormirin Khudai and Bhavuk Gupta and Dev Kant Sindhu and Vibhaw Shrivastava and Sonia Thite and Prachi Karodi and Venkata Ramana Vemuluri and Avinash Sharma},
            note = {copyright of this article belongs to MICROBIOLOGY SOC},
         address = {14-16 MEREDITH ST, LONDON, ENGLAND},
           title = {Deinococcus pantiae sp. nov., a UV-resistant bacterium isolated from a lake in Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica},
       publisher = {MICROBIOLOGY SOC},
            year = {2026},
         journal = {INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY},
        keywords = {Deinococcus; genome sequencing; polar microbiology; polyextremophile; UV-resistant},
             url = {http://crdd.osdd.net/open/3449/},
        abstract = {A novel UV-resistant, red-pigmented, Gram-stain-positive, aerobic, non-motile, coccoid bacterial strain, designated SM5\_A1T, was isolated from lake sediment collected from Schirmacher Oasis, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. The phylogenetic analysis, based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence, showed that the strain SM5\_A1T was closely related to Deinococcus saxicola DSM 15974T (98.39\%), Deinococcus frigens DSM 12807T (97.69\%) and Deinococcus marmoris DSM 12784T (97.06\%). The overall genome-related indices revealed D. marmoris DSM 12784T as the phylogenetically nearest relative with an average nucleotide identity of 89.69\%, an average amino acid identity of 92.14\% and a digital DNA-DNA hybridization of 38.3\%. The DNA G+C content of the isolate was 64.05 mol\%, while the predominant respiratory quinone was menaquinone 8 (MK-8). The major cellular fatty acids were summed feature 3 (C16:1 omega 7c/C16:1 omega 6c), C15:1 omega 6c, C16:0, summed feature 9 (C17:1 iso omega 9c) and C15:0 iso. The prominently detected polar lipids were aminolipids, diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphoglycolipids and phosphatidylglyceroylalkylamine. Based on the phenotypic, phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic data, the strain SM5\_A1T represents a novel species in the genus Deinococcus for which the name Deinococcus pantiae is proposed. The type strain is SM5\_A1T (MCC 5347T=JCM 36669T=KCTC 43670T).}
}