Streptomyces durbertensis sp. nov., isolated from saline–alkali soil Yu, Yang and Fu, Yansong and Guo, Xiaowei and Yan, Rui and Wang, Han and Zhao, Junwei and Wang, Xiangjing and Zhang, Ji and Xiang, Wensheng,, 68, 3635-3640 (2018), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003047, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A novel strain of actinobacteria, designated NEAU-S1GS20T, was isolated from a saline–alkali soil collected from Heilongjiang Province, north-east China, and characterized using a polyphasic approach. Strain NEAU-S1GS20T exhibited morphological, cultural and chemotaxonomic features consistent with its classification as representing a member of the genus Streptomyces . Growth occurred at 18‒45 °C, at pH 6.0‒10.0 and in the presence of 10 % (w/v) NaCl. Whole-cell hydrolysates mainly contained glucose and ribose. The predominant menaquinones were MK–9(H4) and MK–9(H6). The polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol and two unidentified phospholipids. The major cellular fatty acids (>10 %) were iso-C16 : 0, iso-C17 : 0, anteiso-C17 : 0 and C16 : 0. The G+C content of the DNA was 72.8 mol%. A phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain NEAU-S1GS20T formed a distinct clade within the genus Streptomyces and was closely related to Streptomyces xinghaiensis CCTCC AA 208049T (98.4 % similarity), Streptomyces chumphonensis JCM 18522T (98.1 %) and Streptomyces palmae JCM 31289T (98.1 %). Multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) using five housekeeping genes (atpD, gyrB, recA, rpoB and trpB) showed that the MLSA distance of strain NEAU-S1GS20T to the most closely related species was greater than the 0.007 threshold. A combination of DNA–DNA hybridization results and differences in certain phenotypic characteristics demonstrated that strain NEAU-S1GS20T could be distinguished from its closest phylogenetic relatives. Therefore, strain NEAU-S1GS20T represents a novel species of the genus Streptomyces , for which the name Streptomyces durbertensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is NEAU-S1GS20T (=CCTCC AA 2017006T=DSM 104538T)., language=, type=