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A Gram-staining-positive, motile and short-rod-shaped actinobacterium designated 9W16Y-2T was isolated from surface-sterilized leaves of reed (Phragmites australis) collected from Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Colonies were pale greenish yellow, circular, smooth, and convex. The 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain 9W16Y-2T exhibited highest sequence similarities with Aeromicrobium camelliae CGMCC 1.12942T (99.0%) and Aeromicrobium erythreum NRRL B-3381T (97.2%). Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences and single-copy phylogenetic marker genes (pMGs) showed that strain 9W16Y-2T belonged to the genus Aeromicrobium and formed a monophyletic clade with Aeromicrobium camelliae CGMCC 1.12942T. Furthermore, average nucleotide identity (ANI) and DNA-DNA hybridization (DDH) clearly separated strain 9W16Y-2T from the other species of the genus Aeromicrobium with values below the thresholds for species delineation. The G+C content of the genomic DNA is 68.9 mol%. The diagnostic diamino acid of the cell-wall peptidoglycan was ll-diaminopimelic acid. The predominant menaquinone was MK-9(H4). The major fatty acids (> 10% of the total fatty acids) were C18:0 10-methyl (TBSA) (28.2%), C16:0 (21.0%), C16:0 2-OH (20.8%) and C18:1ω9c (12.8%). The polar lipid profile comprised diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylinositol, an unidentified aminophospholipid and an unidentified lipid. Based on the phylogenic, phenotypic and chemotaxonomic features, strain 9W16Y-2T represents a novel species of the genus Aeromicrobium, for which the name Aeromicrobium endophyticum sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 9W16Y-2T (= CGMCC 1.13876T = JCM 33141T).
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This research was partly supported by the CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (Grant No. CAMS 2017-I2M-B&R-08; CAMS 2017-I2M-1-012), PUMC Youth Fund (2017350022), National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (Grant No.81621064) and International S&T Cooperation (2016YFE0122000). We are grateful to Dr. Zhanfeng Xia at the Tarim University, Xinjiang, China, for assistance in sampling at Taklamakan Desert and Dr. Rongfeng Li from The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA, for useful discussion with this paper.
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Li, FN., Liao, SL., Liu, SW. et al. Aeromicrobium endophyticum sp. nov., an endophytic actinobacterium isolated from reed (Phragmites australis). J Microbiol. 57, 725–731 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-019-8705-7
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