Description of Amycolatopsis speibonae Gsoil 006

Cells are Gram-stain-positive, non-flagellated, and branched mycelium-forming. Colonies are filamentous, umbonate, and cream colored after 2 days incubation on R2 A at 30° C. Nitrate is not reduced and esculin is hydrolyzed. The strain shows negative reactions for enzyme activities of arginine dihydrolase, urease, gelatinase, β -galactosidase, and oxidase. Indole is not produced and glucose is not fermented. The strain utilizes D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, potassium gluconate, adipic acid, malic acid, and phenylacetic acid, whereas the strain does not utilize D-maltose, capric acid and trisodium citrate. Strain Gsoil 006 (= NIBRBAC000500982) was isolated from a soil sample, Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province, Korea.