%0 Journal Article %A Tóth, Ákos %A Baka, Erzsébet %A Bata-Vidács, Ildikó %A Luzics, Szabina %A Kosztik, Judit %A Tóth, Erika %A Kéki, Zsuzsa %A Schumann, Peter %A Táncsics, András %A Nagy, István %A Sós, Endre %A Kukolya, József %T Micrococcoides hystricis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Micrococcaceae, phylum Actinobacteria %D 2017 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 67 %N 8 %P 2758-2765 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002018 %K chemotaxonomy %K 16S rDNA sequence %K phenotypic characteristics %K Micrococcoides hystricis gen. nov., sp. nov. %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-stain-positive bacterium, designated TSL3T, was isolated from faeces of a porcupine, Hystrix indica, from the Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden, Hungary. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, the strain is phylogenetically related to the family Micrococcaceae . The highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity was found with Micrococcus terreus V3M1T (96.50 %) followed by Arthrobacter humicola KV-653T (96.43 %). Cells of strain TSL3T were aerobic, non-motile and coccoid-shaped. The main fatty acids were anteiso-C15 : 0 (54.4 %), iso-C16 : 0 (18.2 %) and iso C15 : 0 (9.7 %). The major menaquinone was MK-7, and the polar lipid profile included phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, dimannosylglyceride, trimannosyldiacylglycerol, phosphatidylinositol, three unknown phospholipids and two unknown glycolipids. Strain TSL3T showed the peptidoglycan structure A4alpha l-Lys - Gly - l-Glu. The DNA G+C content of strain TSL3T was 58.4 mol%. Phenotypic and genotypic characterisation clearly showed that strain TSL3T could be differerentiated from the members of other genera in the family Micrococcaceae . According to these results, strain TSL3T represents a novel genus and species, for which the name Micrococcoides hystricis gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is TSL3T (=DSM 29785T=NCAIM B. 02604T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002018