%0 Journal Article %A Matsumoto, Atsuko %A Takahashi, Yōko %A Shinose, Mayumi %A Seino, Akio %A Iwai, Yuzuru %A Ōmura, Satoshi %T Longispora albida gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel genus of the family Micromonosporaceae %D 2003 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 53 %N 5 %P 1553-1559 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02595-0 %K DAP, diaminopimelic acid %I Microbiology Society, %X A novel actinomycete strain was isolated from a soil sample collected in Japan by using gellan gum as a solidifying agent. Spore-chains from the short sporophores were straight and each had more than 20 spores per chain. Spores possessed no motility. Cell-wall peptidoglycan contained meso-diaminopimelic acid, glycine, alanine and glutamic acid; whole-cell hydrolysates contained arabinose, galactose and xylose. The acyl type of the peptidoglycan was glycolyl. The predominant menaquinones were MK-10(H4) and MK-10(H6); MK-10(H8) was a minor component. Mycolic acids were not detected. The diagostic phospholipid was phosphatidylethanolamine. Cellular fatty acids included heptadecenoic (C17 : 1), 14-methylpentadecanoic (i-C16 : 0) and octadecenoic (C18 : 1) acids. The G+C content of the DNA was 70 mol%. On the basis of morphogical and chemotaxonomic properties and phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rDNA sequence data, it is proposed that this strain should be classified in a novel genus and species, Longispora albida gen. nov., sp. nov., in the family Micromonosporaceae. The type strain is K97-0003T (=NRRL B-24201T=JCM 11711T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.02595-0