Rare Halophilic Nocardiopsis from Algerian Saharan Soils as Tools for Biotechnological Processes in Pharmaceutical Industry

Table 4

Differential characteristics between isolates of the second clade and phylogenetically related species Nocardiopsis litoralis and N. kunsanensis.

(a)

Characteristics	Isolates AH								N. litoralis JSM 073097^T	N. kunsanensis HA-9^T
	0	1	12	38	52	63	64	67
Degradation of organic compounds:
Casein	+	+	+	-	-	+	+	+	-	+
Esculin	+	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-
Starch	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	+
Tween 80	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-
Carbon source utilization:										ND
Adonitol	+	+	+	+	-	+	+	+	-	ND
Arabinose	+	+	-	+	+	+	+	+	-	ND
Cellobiose	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	-
Fructose	+	-	+	+	+	+	-	+	-	+
Galactose	+	-	-	+	+	+	+	-	-	-
lactose	-	-	-	+	+	+	+	+	-
Maltose	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	-
Mannitol	+	-	-	+	+	+	+	+	-	-
Melibiose	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	ND
Raffinose	-	-	-	+	+	+	-	-	-	-
Rhamnose	+	-	+	+	+	+	-	+	-	-
Ribose	+	+	+	-	+	+	+	+	-	ND
Trehalose	-	+	-	-	+	+	+	+	-	-
Xylose	+	+	-	+	+	+	+	-	+	-
Nitrogen source utilization:
Alanine	+	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Proline	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	-
Serine	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	-
Nitrate reductase	+	+	+	-	+	+	+	+	-	-
Decarboxylation of sodium salts:
Acetate	+	+	-	+	+	+	+	+	-	-
Citrate	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	ND

(b)

NaCl range (optimum) (%; )
Temperature range (optimum) (°C)	28-37 (30)	20-35 (25)	28-37 (30)
pH range (optimum)	7-9 (7)	6.0-10.5 (8.5)	7.0-11.0 (9.0)
Diagnostic sugars	Glu, rib	None	None
Major phospholipids	PG, PC, PME, and PI	DPG, PC, and PG	DPG, PC, and PG

+, property present; -, property absent; ND: not determined. All experiments were done in duplicates. DPG: diphosphatidylglycerol; PC: phosphatidylcholine; PE: phosphatidylethanolamine; PG: phosphatidylglycerol; PI: phosphatidylinositol; PME: phosphatidylmethylethanolamine.