%0 Journal Article %A Wang, Liang %A An, Dong-Shan %A Jin, Feng-Xie %A Lee, Sung-Taik %A Im, Wan-Taek %A Bae, Heon-Meen %T Phycicoccus ginsenosidimutans sp. nov., isolated from soil of a ginseng field %D 2011 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 61 %N 3 %P 524-528 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.022137-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-positive, non-motile, non-spore-forming, aerobic, coccoid-shaped bacterium, designated BXN5-13T, was isolated from the soil of a ginseng field from Baekdu Mountain in Jilin district, China. Strain BXN5-13T grew optimally at 30 °C and pH 6.5–7.5 with 0–2 % (w/v) NaCl. Strain BXN5-13T had β-glucosidase activity that was connected with ginsenoside-converting ability, so that it was able to convert ginsenoside Rb1 to ginsenoside F2. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, the closest phylogenetic relatives of strain BXN5-13T were Phycicoccus aerophilus 5516T-20T (98.4 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity), P. bigeumensis MSL-03T (98.3 %), P. dokdonensis DS-8T (97.9 %) and P. jejuensis KSW2-15T (96.9 %). Lower sequence similarity (<97.0 %) was found with the type strains of other recognized species of the family Intrasporangiaceae. The predominant quinone was MK-8(H4). The major fatty acids (>10 %) were iso-C15 : 0, C17 : 0, anteiso-C15 : 0 and iso-C16 : 0. The major polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylinositol. The cell-wall peptidoglycan contained meso-diaminopimelic acid. The chemotaxonomic data and the high genomic DNA G+C content of strain BXN5-13T (70.8 mol%) supported its affiliation with the genus Phycicoccus. DNA–DNA relatedness between strain BXN5-13T and its closest phylogenetic neighbours was below 16 %. Strain BXN5-13T represents a novel species within the genus Phycicoccus, for which the name Phycicoccus ginsenosidimutans sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is BXN5-13T (=KCTC 19419T=DSM 21006T=LMG 24462T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.022137-0