Melghirimycesprofundicolus sp. nov., isolated from a deep-sea sediment Li, Jie and Qin, Sheng and You, Zhi-Qing and Long, Li-Juan and Tian, Xin-Peng and Wang, Fa-Zuo and Zhang, Si,, 63, 4552-4556 (2013), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.052175-0, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A novel filamentous bacterium, strain SCSIO 11153T, was isolated from a sediment sample collected from the Indian Ocean (80° 03.099′ E 01° 03.300′ N) at a depth of 4593 m. Good growth was observed at 50–55 °C and pH 7.0 with 3 % NaCl. It formed ivory–white colonies with radial wrinkles. Aerial mycelium was absent on the media tested. Phenotypic characteristics and 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated that strain SCSIO 11153T belonged to the family Thermoactinomycetaceae . It exhibited 96.4 % and 96.2 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities to Melghirimyces algeriensis NariEXT and Melghirimyces thermohalophilus Nari11AT, respectively, while lower sequence similarity values (<95.4 %) were observed between strain SCSIO 11153T and other species of genera in the family Thermoactinomycetaceae . The menaquinone type was MK-7. Major cellular fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0, anteiso-C15 : 0 and iso-C17 : 0. The polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylmethylethanolamine, phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylglycerol. The DNA G+C content of strain SCSIO 11153T was 52.6 mol%. On the basis of the genotypic and phenotypic characteristics, it is proposed that strain SCSIO 11153T represents a novel species of the genus Melghirimyces with the name Melghirimyces profundicolus sp. nov. The type strain is SCSIO 11153T ( = DSM 45787T = CCTCC AA 2012007T = NBRC 109068T)., language=, type=