Description of Streptomyces scabrisporus Gsoil 961

Cells are Gram-stain-positive, non-flagellated, and branched mycelium-forming. Colonies are filamentous, umbonate, and pale-orange colored after 2 days of incubation on R2A at 30°C. Nitrate is not reduced and esculin is not hydrolyzed. The strain shows positive reaction for enzyme activity of oxidase, whereas the strain shows negative reactions for enzyme activities of gelatinase, urease, β -galactosidase, and arginine dihydrolase. Indole is not produced and glucose is not fermented. The strain utilizes potassium gluconate, adipic acid, and malic acid, whereas the strain does not utilize D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, capric acid, trisodium citrate, and phenyl acetic acid. Strain Gsoil 961 (= NIBRBAC000500989) was isolated from a soil sample, Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province, Korea.