Rhodococcus folensis sp. nov., an orange-red-pigmented bacterium from mining soil
Aleyna Nalcaoglu Senocak, Omer Faruk Ozturk, Miray Kilic, Ersan Bektas, Ali Osman Belduz, Kadriye Inan Bektas · 2026
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Description
Aleyna Nalcaoglu Senocak and five colleagues describe a new species with an orange-red pigment, found in soil from an abandoned mine near Trabzon, Türkiye. Mining soils are harsh places that can shelter unusual microbes. The 2026 team isolated a strain coded FMA22T during a pigment survey and ran the full battery of tests used to place a bacterium. The battery covered gene sequencing, cell chemistry, growth ranges, and a draft genome. Gene matches put it in the genus Rhodococcus, closest to a known species at 99.57 percent similarity.
Whole-genome comparisons fell well below species thresholds, confirming the strain as new. Its genome spans 4.23 million bases and carries the cluster for making carotenoid pigments. The pigment absorbed light at 475 nanometres, showed antioxidant power in assays, and weakly blocked an HIV enzyme. The authors name it Rhodococcus folensis; FMA22T is the reference strain in two culture collections.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Aleyna Nalcaoglu Senocak, Omer Faruk Ozturk, Miray Kilic, Ersan Bektas, Ali Osman Belduz, Kadriye Inan Bektas |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 64253 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |