IJSEM Papers in Press. Published January 9, 2014 as doi:10.1099/ijs.0.059014-0
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Novosphingobium malaysiense sp. nov., a novel bacterium isolated from Malaysia
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Learn-Han Lee1*, Adzzie-Shazleen Azman1, Nurullhudda Zainal1,2, Shu-Kee Eng1,3,
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Chee-Mun Fang1, Kui Hong4, Kok-Gan Chan2
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Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, 46150 Bandar Sunway, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
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*Correspondence:
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Lee Learn-Han
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Tel: +603-55145887, E-mail:
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Running title: Novosphingobium malaysiense sp. nov.
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Division of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 3
School of Science, Monash University Malaysia, 46150 Bandar Sunway, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
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Key Laboratory of Combinatory Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan, R.P. China
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Category: New Taxa-Proteobacteria
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The
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GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ under the accession number KC907395.
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A novel bacterium, strain MUSC 273T was isolated from mangrove sediments of Tanjung
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Lumpur river, State of Pahang, Peninsular of Malaysia. This bacterium is yellow
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pigmented, Gram-negative, rod-shaped and non-spore-forming. The taxonomy of strain
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MUSC 273T was studied by polyphasic approach and the organism showed a range of
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phenotypic and chemotaxonomic properties consistent with those of the genus
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Novosphingobium. The analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain MUSC 273T showed
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naphthalenivorans TUT562T (96.4 %), N. soli CC-TPE-1T (95.9 %) and lower (