Journal
SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 35, Issue 1, Pages 7-18Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2011.10.004
Keywords
Streptomyces hygroscopicus; Streptomyces violaceusniger; MLSA; DDH; Systematics
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- Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [30670002, 31100003]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [KSCX2-YW-Z-042]
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Streptomyces hygroscopicus and related species are the most well known candidate producers of antibiotics and many other industrially and agronomically important secondary metabolites in the genus Streptomyces. Multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) has shown to be a powerful and pragmatic molecular method for unraveling streptomycete diversities. In this investigation, a multilocus phylogeny of 58 representatives of the S. hygroscopicus 16S rRNA gene clade including S. violaceusniger and related species was examined. The result demonstrated that the MLSA data were helpful in defining members of the S. hygroscopicus clade, providing further evidence that the MLSA scheme of five housekeeping genes (atpD, gyrB, recA, rpoB and trpB) is a valuable alternative for creating and maintaining operational protocols for the Streptomyces species assignment. DNA-DNA hybridization (DDH) between strains with representative MLSA evolutionary distances, combined with previous data from S. griseus and S. albidoflavus clades, revealed a high correlation between MLSA and DDH, and sustains that the five-gene nucleotide sequence distance of 0.007 could be considered as the species cut-off for the whole genus. This significant correlation thus makes the MLSA scheme applicable to construction of a theory-based taxonomy for both ecology and bioprospecting of streptomycetes. Based on the MLSA and DDH data, as well as phenotypic characteristics, 10 species and three subspecies of the S. hygroscopicus clade are considered to be later heterotypic synonyms of eight genomic species, and Streptomyces glebosus sp. nov., comb. nov. (type strain CGMCC 4.1873(T) = LMG 19950(T) = DSM 40823(T)) and Streptomyces ossainyceticus sp. nov., comb. nov. (type strain CGMCC 4.1866(T) = LMG 19951(T) = DSM 408241) are also proposed. (C) 2011 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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