@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001176, author = "Ray, Lopamudra and Mishra, Samir Ranjan and Panda, Ananta Narayan and Das, Surajit and Rastogi, Gurdeep and Pattanaik, Ajit Kumar and Adhya, Tapan Kumar and Suar, Mrutyunjay and Raina, Vishakha", title = "Streptomyces chitinivorans sp. nov., a chitinolytic strain isolated from estuarine lake sediment", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2016", volume = "66", number = "8", pages = "3241-3248", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001176", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001176", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "Chitinolytic", keywords = "Halotolerant", keywords = "Balugaon", keywords = "Streptomyces", abstract = "A novel actinobacterial strain RC1832T was isolated from the sediment of a fish dumping yard at Balugaon near Chilika Lake. The strain is halotolerant (15 % NaCl, w/v), alkali-tolerant (pH 7–10) and hydrolyzes chitin, starch, gelatin, cellulose, carboxymethyl cellulose, Tween 80, tributyrin, lecithin and casein. Apart from showing typical genus-specific morphological and chemotaxonomic features, the comparision and analysis of the near complete 16S rRNA gene sequence clearly revealed that the strain RC1832T represented a member of the genus Streptomyces . It exhibited the highest sequence similarities with the strains Streptomyces fenghuangensis GIMN4.003T (99.78 %), Streptomyces nanhaiensis DSM 41926T (99.07 %), Streptomyces radiopugnans R97T(98.71 %), Streptomyces atacamensis DSM 42065T (98.65 %) and Streptomyces barkulensis DSM 42082T (98.25 %). The DNA–DNA relatedness of strain RC 1832T with the closest phylogenetic neighbours S. fenghuangensis GIMN4.003T and S. nanhaiensis DSM 41926T were 20±2 % and 21±2 %, respectively. Thus, based on a range of phenotypic and genotypic properties, strain RC1832T was suggested to represent a novel species of the genus Streptomyces for which the name Streptomyces chitinivorans sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is RC1832T (=JCM 30611=KCTC 29696).", }