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A Gram-staining positive, non-spore forming, non-pigmented and non-motile bacterium, designated strain NCCP-1664T, was isolated from Cholistan desert, Pakistan. Cells of strain NCCP-1664T were strictly aerobic, catalase positive and oxidase negative with a rod to coccus growth cycle and can grow at pH 6.0–9.0 (optimum pH 7–8) at 28–45 °C (optimum 37 °C) and could tolerate 0–16% NaCl (optimum 2%). Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that strain NCCP-1664T belongs to the family Micrococcaceae and was related to members of the genus Arthrobacter having highest sequence similarities with Arthrobacter ginkgonis (98.9%), A. halodurans (97.7%) and A. oryzae (97.1%) and less than 97% with other related taxa. DNA–DNA relatedness values of strain NCCP-1664T with above mentioned type strains were found to be less than 54%, whereas digital DDH and average nucleotide identity (ANI) values with A. oryzae were 20.9 and of 74.3%, respectively. DNA G + C content of strain NCCP-1664T was 70.0 mol%. Chemotaxonomic data of strain NCCP-1664T showed the peptidoglycan type as A3α l-Lys–l -Ala; menaquinones as MK-9(H2) (67%), MK-8(H2) (32%) and MK-7(H2) (1%), major fatty acids as anteiso -C15:0 (51.2%), anteiso-C17:0 (9.6%) and C18:1ω9c (6.9%) and polar lipids profile comprising of diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylinositol, digalactosyldiacylglycerol, small amounts of monogalactosyldiacylglycerol, trimannosyldiacylglycerol and three unidentified lipids. The phylogenomic analyses along with chemotaxonomic data, physiological, biochemical characteristics allowed to describe it as representative of a novel genus, for which the name Zafaria cholistanensis gen. nov. sp. nov. is proposed with the type strain NCCP-1664T (= DSM 29936T = KCTC 39549T).
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This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No: 32061143043), the Science & Technology Basic Resources Investigation Program of China (No. 2017FY100300), Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region regional coordinated innovation project (Shanghai Cooperation Organization Science and Technology Partnership Program, No. 2017E01031) and China Biodiversity Observation Networks (Sino BON).
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Conceptualization and Methodology, AA, IA and WJL; Supervision, IA and WJL; Formal analysis, AA, IUK and LS; Data curation, AA, IA, LS and WJL; Peptidoglycan analysis in lab by HJB, whereas peptidoglycan, quinone and fatty acid profile analyses in lab by PS. Data analysis, AA, NK, AA, IUK and IA; Project administration, IA and WJL; Funding acquisition and Resources, WJL; Writing – original draft, AA, IA and NK; Writing – review & editing, IA, PS, HJB, NK, IUK, AA and WJL.
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The DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of Zafaria cholistanensis NCCP-1664T is LC065376. The bio-project, bio-sample and whole-genome sequences of strain NCCP-1664T have been deposited to DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the accession numbers PRJDB8509, SAMD00178857 and BKDJ01000000.
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Amin, A., Ahmed, I., Khalid, N. et al. Zafaria cholistanensis gen. nov. sp. nov., a moderately thermotolerant and halotolerant actinobacterium isolated from Cholistan desert soil of Pakistan. Arch Microbiol 203, 1717–1729 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-020-02176-4
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