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Abstract

The peptidoglycan of and ‘’ contained lysine as the dibasic amino acid. In addition, glutamic acid and alanine were detected in the hydrolysates. Thin-layer chromatographic analysis of whole-organism methanolysates of and ‘’ revealed the presence of single spots corresponding to simple non-hydroxylated fatty acid methyl esters. The major fatty acid structural types were straight-chain and monounsaturated acids. Menaquinones (vitamin K) were the sole respiratory quinones detected in and ‘’. The major menaquinone components in were tetrahydrogenated with ten isoprene units. Tetrahydrogenated menaquinones with nine isoprene units, however, predominated in ‘’. The results of the present study indicate that and ‘’ should be excluded from the genus can be accommodated in the genus but the taxonomic position of ‘’ remains equivocal.

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