%0 Journal Article %A Asker, Dalal %A Awad, Tarek S. %A McLandsborough, Lynne %A Beppu, Teruhiko %A Ueda, Kenji %T Deinococcus depolymerans sp. nov., a gamma- and UV-radiation-resistant bacterium, isolated from a naturally radioactive site %D 2011 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 61 %N 6 %P 1448-1453 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.013482-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X Four gamma- and UV-radiation-resistant bacterial strains, designated TDMA-24T, TDMA-24-2, TDMA-24-3 and TDMA-24-4, were isolated from a fresh-water sample collected at Misasa, Tottori, Japan. Cells of these strains were Gram-reaction-positive, non-motile, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped and formed red colonies. The genomic DNA G+C contents ranged from 70.5 to 70.6 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that the novel isolates belong to the genus Deinococcus, the highest sequence similarities being with Deinococcus aquaticus PB314T (98 %) and Deinococcus caeni Ho-08T (97 %). The polar lipid profile of strain TDMA-24T comprised three unidentified phosphoglycolipids, five unidentified glycolipids and seven unidentified polar lipids. MK-8 was the predominant respiratory quinone. Major fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0, C15 : 1ω6c, C15 : 0, C16 : 0 and summed feature 3 (iso-C15 : 0 2-OH and/or C16 : 1ω7c). On the basis of their phylogenetic positions and chemotaxonomic and phenotypic characteristics, the novel isolates represent a novel species of the genus Deinococcus, for which the name Deinococcus depolymerans sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is TDMA-24T ( = JCM 14369T  = NBRC 102115T  = CCUG 53609T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.013482-0