%0 Journal Article %A Zhang, Yong-Guang %A Liu, Qing %A Wang, Hong-Fei %A Zhang, Dao-Feng %A Zhang, Yuan-Ming %A Park, Dong-Jin %A Kim, Chang-Jin %A Li, Wen-Jun %T Haloactinopolyspora alkaliphila sp. nov., and emended description of the genus Haloactinopolyspora %D 2014 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 64 %N Pt_6 %P 1945-1951 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.062646-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A facultatively alkaliphilic actinomycete strain, designated EGI 80088T, was isolated from a saline-alkali soil sample from Xinjiang province, north-west China, and subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic characterization. Strain EGI 80088T formed fragmented aerial hyphae and short spore chains, and rod-like spores aggregated at maturity. Whole-cell hydrolysates of the isolate contained ll-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid, and glucosamine, mannose, galactose, glucose and rhamnose as the marker sugars. The major fatty acids identified (>5 %) were anteiso-C15 : 0, iso-C15 : 0, summed feature 4 (iso-C17 : 1I/anteiso-C17 : 1B), iso-C16 : 0 and anteiso-C17 : 0. The predominant menaquinone was MK-9(H4). The G+C content of the genomic DNA of strain EGI 80088T was 70.6 mol%. EGI 80088T showed the highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to its closest phylogenetic neighbour Haloactinopolyspora alba YIM 93246T (98.5 %). The DNA–DNA relatedness value of the strain EGI 80088T and H. alba YIM 93246T was 59.3±5.2 %. On the basis of morphological, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic characteristics and DNA–DNA hybridization data, strain EGI 80088T represents a novel species of the genus Haloactinopolyspora , for which the name Haloactinopolyspora alkaliphila sp. nov. (type strain EGI 80088T = BCRC 16946T = JCM 19128T) is proposed. The description of the genus Haloactinopolyspora has also been emended. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.062646-0