Dietzia timorensis sp. nov., isolated from soil

1 Division of Applied Biological Sciences, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Takeda-4, Kofu 400, Japan 2 NITE Biological Resource Center, Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, Japan 3 Research Center for Biotechnology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Jl. Raya Bogor Km. 46, Cibinong 16911, Indonesia 4 Soil Reseach Institute, Jl. Ir. H. Juanda 98, Bogor 16002, Indonesia 5 Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Bogor Agricultural University, Jalan Raya Pajajaran, Bogor 16144, Indonesia 6 Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Jl. Raya Bogor Km. 46, Cibinong 16911, Indonesia Correspondence Hideki Yamamura hyamamura{at}yamanashi.ac.jp An actinomycete strain, ID05-A0528 T , was isolated using the SDS-yeast extract pre-treatment method from soil under mahogany ( Swietenia mahogani ) trees in West Timor, Indonesia, and was examined by using a polyphasic taxonomic approach. Chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic characterizations demonstrated that the novel strain belongs to the genus Dietzia . 16S rRNA gene sequencing studies showed that the strain was related to Dietzia cinnamea (97.2 %). Results of phenotypic and phylogenetic analyses determined that strain ID05-A0528 T is different from the known species of the genus Dietzia . It is proposed that the isolate should be classified as a representative of a novel species of the genus Dietzia , with the name Dietzia timorensis sp. nov. The type strain is ID05-A0528 T (=BTCC B-560 T =NBRC 104184 T ). The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain ID05-A0528 T is AB377289 .