Nakamurella deserti sp. nov., isolated from rhizosphere soil of Reaumuria in the Taklamakan desert Liu, Shao-wei and Li, Fei-Na and Qi, Xin and Xie, Yun-Ying and Sun, Cheng-Hang,, 69, 214-219 (2019), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003132, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A Gram-stain-positive, aerobic, non-motile, non-spore-forming, coccus-shaped actinobacterium, designated strain 12Sc4-1T, was isolated from a soil sample collected in the Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Strain 12Sc4-1T grew at 8‒35 °C (optimum, 28‒30 °C), pH 6.0‒9.0 (optimum, pH 7.0) and in the presence of 0‒3 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum, 0 %). Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequence suggested that strain 12Sc4-1T belonged to the genus Nakamurella and shared the highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to Nakamurella silvestris S20-107T (96.94 %). Strain 12Sc4-1T showed <96.0 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities to all other recognized members of the genus Nakamurella . Chemotaxonomic analyses showed that the isolate possessed meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid of the peptidoglycan, glucose, mannose and galactose as whole-cell sugars, and MK-8(H4) as the predominant menaquinone. The polar lipids comprised diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, an unidentified aminophospholipid, phosphatidylinositol, an unidentified phospholipid, an unidentified phosphoglycolipid and an unidentified glycolipid. The major fatty acids were C16 : 0 and anteiso-C15 : 0. The DNA G+C content was 72.1 mol% (draft genome sequence). On the basis of phylogenetic, phenotypic and chemotaxonomic analyses, strain 12Sc4-1T represents a novel species of the genus Nakamurella , for which the name Nakamurella deserti sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 12Sc4-1T (=KCTC 49114T=CGMCC 1.16555T)., language=, type=