%0 Journal Article %A CARRETO, LAURA %A MOORE, EDWARD %A NOBRE, M. FERNANDA %A WAIT, ROBIN %A RILEY, PAUL W. %A SHARP, RICHARD J. %A DA COSTA, MILTON S. %T Rubrobacter xylanophilus sp. nov., a New Thermophilic Species Isolated from a Thermally Polluted Effluent %D 1996 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 46 %N 2 %P 460-465 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-46-2-460 %I Microbiology Society, %X One strain of a thermophilic, slightly halotolerant bacterium was isolated from a thermally polluted industrial runoff near Salisbury, United Kingdom. This organism, strain PRD-1T (T = type strain), for which we propose the name Rubrobacter xylanophilus sp. nov., produces short gram-positive rods and coccoid cells and forms pink colonies. The optimum growth temperature is approximately 60°C. Unusual internal branched-chain fatty acids (namely, 12-methylhexadecanoic acid and 14-methyloctadecanoic acid) make up the major acyl chains of the lipids. The results of our 16S rRNA sequence comparisons showed that strain PRD-1T is related to Rubrobacter radiotolerans and that these two organisms form a deep evolutionary line of descent within the gram-positive Bacteria. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-46-2-460