Gordonia polyisoprenivorans sp. nov., a rubber-degrading actinomycete isolated from an automobile tyre
Linos, Alexandros and Steinbüchel, Alexander and Spröer, Cathrin and Kroppenstedt, Reiner M.,, 49, 1785-1791 (1999),
doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-49-4-1785,
publicationName = Microbiology Society,
issn = 1466-5026,
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.,
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