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A report of 42 unrecorded actinobacterial species in Korea

  • Lee, Na-Young (Faculty of Science Education, Jeju National University) ;
  • Cha, Chang-Jun (Department of Biotechnology, Chung-Ang University) ;
  • Im, Wan-Taek (Department of Biotechnology, Hankyong National University) ;
  • Kim, Seung-Bum (Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Seong, Chi-Nam (Department of Biology, Sunchon National University) ;
  • Bae, Jin-Woo (Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Jahng, Kwang Yeop (Department of Life Sciences, Chonbuk National University) ;
  • Cho, Jang-Cheon (Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University) ;
  • Joh, Kiseong (Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) ;
  • Jeon, Che Ok (School of Biological Science, Chung-Ang University) ;
  • Yi, Hana (School of Biosystems & Biomedical Science and Department of Public Health Science, Korean University Guro Hospital, Korea University) ;
  • Lee, Soon Dong (Faculty of Science Education, Jeju National University)
  • Received : 2017.09.04
  • Accepted : 2017.12.29
  • Published : 2018.02.28
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Abstract

During a study to discover indigenous prokaryotic species in Korea in 2016, a total of 42 actinobacterial isolates were recovered from various environmental samples collected from natural cave, squid, sewage, sea water, trees, droppings of birds, freshwater, eelgrass, mud flat, sediment and soil. On the basis of a tight phylogenetic clade with the closest species and high level of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, it was shown that each isolate was assigned to independent and previously described bacterial species which were assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria. The following 42 species have not been reported in Korea: eight species in two genera n the order Corynebacteriales, 26 species of 16 genera in the Micrococcales, one species of one genus in the Micromonosporales, one species of one genus in the Propionibacteriales, four species of two genera in the Streptomycetales and two species of two genera in the Streptosporangiale. Cell morphology, Gram staining reaction, colony colors and features, the media and conditions of incubation, physiological and biochemical characteristics, origins of isolation and strain IDs of 42 unrecorded actinobacterial species are presented in the species description.

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