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Amycolatopsis vastitatis sp. nov., an isolate from a high altitude subsurface soil on Cerro Chajnantor, northern Chile.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek - 1 Sept 2018
Idris Hamidah, Nouioui Imen, Pathom-Aree Wasu, Castro Jean Franco, Bull Alan T, Andrews Barbara A, Asenjo Juan A, Goodfellow Michael
Abstract excerpt
The taxonomic position of a novel Amycolatopsis strain isolated from a high altitude Atacama Desert subsurface soil was established using a polyphasic approach. The strain, isolate H5T, was shown to have chemical properties typical of members of the genus Amycolatopsis such as meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diamino acid in the cell wall peptidoglycan, arabinose and galactose as diagnostic sugars and MK-9(H4) as...
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