| nocardia jiangxiensis sp. nov. and nocardia miyunensis sp. nov., isolated from acidic soils. | the taxonomic positions of two soil actinomycetes, strains 117(t) and 43401(t), provisionally assigned to the genus nocardia were determined in a polyphasic study. the organisms were found to have phenotypic properties typical of members of the genus nocardia, and formed a distinct branch in the nocardia 16s rrna gene tree. it was evident from the phylogenetic data that the isolates were most closely, albeit loosely, associated with the type strains of nocardia nova and nocardia pseudobrasiliens ... | 2005 | 16166688 |
| bacterial degradation of poly(trans-1,4-isoprene) (gutta percha). | gutta percha, the trans-isomer of polyisoprene, is being used for several technical applications due to its resistance to biological degradation. in the past, several attempts to isolate micro-organisms capable of degrading chemically pure poly(trans-1,4-isoprene) have failed. this is the first report on axenic cultures of bacteria capable of degrading gutta percha. from about 100 different habitats and enrichment cultures, six bacterial strains were isolated which utilize synthetic poly(trans-1 ... | 2007 | 17259606 |
| nocardia acidivorans sp. nov., isolated from soil of the island of stromboli. | a gram-positive, non-spore-forming bacterium (strain gw4-1778(t)) was isolated from soil of the italian island of stromboli. 16s rrna gene sequence similarity studies showed that strain gw4-1778(t) is a member of the genus nocardia, most closely related to nocardia pseudobrasiliensis (genbank accession no. dq659914; 98.6 %), nocardia nova (z36930; 98.6 %), nocardia niigatensis (ab092563; 98.4 %), nocardia jiangxiensis (ay639902; 98.0 %), nocardia uniformis (z46752; 98.0 %) and nocardia miyunensi ... | 2007 | 17551026 |
| nocardia rayongensis sp. nov., isolated from thai peat swamp forest soil. | an actinomycete strain, ry45-3t, isolated from a peat swamp forest soil in rayong province, thailand, was characterized using a polyphasic approach. the strain belonged to the genus nocardia on the basis of morphological, physiological, biochemical and chemotaxonomic properties. cell-wall peptidoglycan contained meso-diaminopimelic acid. the n-acyl group of muramic acid in the cell wall was glycolyl type. the diagnostic sugars in whole-cell hydrolysates were galactose and arabinose. mk-8 (h4ω-cy ... | 2016 | 26873179 |