%0 Journal Article %A Wang, Kaibiao %A Zhang, Lei %A Liu, Yanshuang %A Pan, Yuanyuan %A Meng, Lin %A Xu, Tong %A Zhang, Cheng %A Liu, Henan %A Hong, Shan %A Huang, Haipeng %A Jiang, Juquan %T Kocuria dechangensis sp. nov., an actinobacterium isolated from saline and alkaline soils %D 2015 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 65 %N Pt_9 %P 3024-3030 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000372 %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-stain positive, strictly aerobic, non-motile and coccus-shaped actinobacterium, designated strain NEAU-ST5-33T, was isolated from saline and alkaline soils in Dechang Township, Zhaodong City, PR China. It formed beige-yellow colonies and grew at NaCl concentrations of 0–5 % (w/v) (optimum 0 %), at pH 6.0–9.0 (optimum pH 7.0) and over a temperature range of 4–50 °C (optimum 35 °C). Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, strain NEAU-ST5-33T was phylogenetically closely related to the type strains of species of the genus Kocuria, Kocuria polaris CMS 76orT, Kocuria rosea DSM 20447T, Kocuria turfanensis HO-9042T, Kocuria aegyptia YIM 70003T, Kocuria himachalensis K07-05T and Kocuria flava HO-9041T, with respective sequence similarities of 98.8 %, 98.8 %, 98.3 %, 98.1 %, 98.1 % and 97.9 %. DNA–DNA hybridization relatedness values of strain NEAU-ST5-33T with type strains of the closely related species ranged from 54 ± 1 % to 34 ± 1 %. The DNA G+C content was 61.2 mol%. The major fatty acids (>5 %) were C15 : 0 anteiso, C15 : 0 iso and C16 : 1ω7c and/or C16 : 1ω6c. The major menaquinone detected was MK-8 (H2), and the polar lipids consisted of diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, one unknown aminolipid and one unknown lipid. On the basis of the genotypic, chemotaxonomic and phenotypic data, we propose that strain NEAU-ST5-33T represents a novel species of the genus Kocuria, with the name Kocuria dechangensis sp. nov. The type strain is NEAU-ST5-33T ( = CGMCC 1.12187T = DSM 25872T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.000372