@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-49-4-1785, author = "Linos, Alexandros and Steinbüchel, Alexander and Spröer, Cathrin and Kroppenstedt, Reiner M.", title = "Gordonia polyisoprenivorans sp. nov., a rubber-degrading actinomycete isolated from an automobile tyre", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "1999", volume = "49", number = "4", pages = "1785-1791", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-49-4-1785", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-49-4-1785", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "Gordonia polyisoprenivorans sp. nov", keywords = "rubber degradation", keywords = "polyphasic taxonomy", abstract = "A rubber-degrading bacterium (strain Kd21) was isolated from fouling tyre water inside a deteriorated automobile tyre. The strain was aerobic, Grampositive, produced elementary branching hyphae which fragmented into rod/coccus-like elements and showed chemotaxonomic markers which were consistent with the classification of Gordonia, i.e. meso-diaminopimelic acid, N-glycolyl muramic acid, arabinose and galactose as diagnostic sugars, a fatty acid pattern composed of unbranched saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids with a considerable amount of tuberculostearic acid, and mycolic acids comprising 58-66 carbon atoms with two principal mycolic acids C60 and C62 counting for over 60%. Results of 16S rDNA analyses as well as chemotaxonomic results, led to the conclusion that Gordonia sp. strain Kd2T (= DSM 44302T) represents a new species within the genus Gordonia for which the name Gordonia polyisoprenivorans is proposed.", }