, was isolated from a soil sample collected from Qinghai province, north-west China, and subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic study. The isolate formed elementary branching hyphae and abundant aerial mycelia with globose sporangia on ISP 4 and R2A media. Whole-cell hydrolysates of strain 6014 T contained arabinose, galactose and ribose as diagnostic sugars and meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid. The polar lipids consisted of phosphatidylmethylethanolamine, phosphatidylethanolamine, hydroxy-phosphatidylethanolamine, N-acetylglucosamine-containing phospholipids, two unknown phospholipids and an unknown glycolipid. The menaquinone system contained MK-9(H 2 ) and MK-9(H 4 ). The major fatty acids were C 14 : 0 , i-C 15 : 0 , C 16 : 0 and 10-methyl-C 16 : 1 . The genomic DNA G+C content of the isolate was 69.4 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain 6014 T fell within the radius of the suborder Streptosporangineae, in which the strain formed a distinct lineage next to genera of the family Streptosporangiaceae. Based on data from this polyphasic study, strain 6014 T can be readily distinguished from previously described organisms and represents a member of a novel species within a new genus in the suborder Streptosporangineae. The name Sinosporangium album gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed with 6014 T (5DSM 45181 T 5KCTC 19655 T ) as the type strain.The suborder Streptosporangineae was proposed by Stackebrandt et al. (1997) based on phylogenetic and signature nucleotide analysis. At the time of writing, there were only three families in this suborder, namely, Streptosporangiaceae, Nocardiopsaceae and Thermomonosporaceae, with Streptosporangiaceae as the type family. In this paper, characterization of strain 6014 T is reported, with proposals for Sinosporangium gen. nov. and Sinosporangium album sp. nov. in the suborder Streptosporangineae (Stackebrandt et al., 1997).
Strain 6014T was isolated on Czapek agar (Waksman, 1961) incubated at 28 u C for 3 weeks. The purified strain was maintained on ISP 4 agar and R2A slants at 4 u C and as glycerol suspensions (20 %, v/v) at 220 u C. Biomass for molecular systematic and chemotaxonomic studies was obtained by cultivation in shake flasks using tryptic soy broth (Difco) at 28 u C for 10 days. Cultural characteristics of the isolate were determined after growth for 7-28 days at 28 u C on R2A, ISP 2, ISP 3, ISP 4 and ISP 5 (Shirling & Gottlieb, 1966), Czapek agar, nutrient agar (Difco) and potato agar (Waksman, 1961) media. The coverslip technique (Zhou et al., 1998) was employed to observe characteristics of the hyphae, sporangia and spores. The sporangia and spore chain morphologies were recorded by examining gold-coated dehydrated specimens of 14 day cultures from R2A and ISP 4 agar by scanning electron microscopy (Quanta; FEI).Growth was tested at 0, 4, 10, 15, 20, 28-37 (at intervals of 1 uC), 40, 45 and 55 uC on R2A. Other physiological and biochemical tests were performed at 28 u C. The pH range was examined at ...