Chemotaxonomic and Molecular Methods Applied To the Polyphasic Classification of Streptomyces Strains

Abstract

Whole-organism protein of 9 test strains and fatty acid profiles for 12 test strains were analyzed for polyphasic taxonomy of strains isolated from soil samples. Representatives of test strains belonging to the same group were clustered into discrete groups after performing numerical analysis of the whole-organism protein profiles using the Pearson product moment correlation coefficient, and unweighted pair groups by using the arithmetic averages algorithm. Also, the test strains in same group were recovered in three well-separated clusters when the fatty acid profiles were analyzed quantitatively, or rather, by using Euclidean distances of the fatty acids with unweighted pair group method with arithmetic averages algorithm.