Typically, the colonies were convex and part of the aerial mycelium and spore chains could be observed around the colony edge. The aerial mycelium was initially white, becoming brownish-white depending on the medium used, and gradually darkened in old cultures. Likewise, the color of the vegetative mycelium was brown. Diffusible

pigment was produced. Growth occurs between 15 and 37 °C, and at pH values from 4 to 10, but not at 3 or 11. Growth occurs in the presence of 0.1% sodium propionate (w/v), 3% and 5% NaCl (w/v) but not in the presence of 7% NaCl (w/v) and 0.1% phenol (v/v). Streptomyces sp. CMU-JT005 has the ability to utilize nitrate. The strain was also able to degrade Tween 40, 60 and 80 but was unable to degrade Tween 20, chitin, gelatin, testosterone, xylan or casein. This isolate was sensitive to most antibiotics including (μg mL−1): neomycin (50), novobiocin (50), selleck chemical oleandomycin (50), Selleckchem EPZ015666 rifampicin (50) and streptomycin (100), but resistant to penicillin G (10 i.u. mL−1). Additional physiological properties tested showed positive results for utilization of many carbon sources including l-adonitol, l-arabinose, d-cellobiose, d-fructose, d-fucose, d-glucose, l-lactose, d-mannitol, d-melezitol, raffinose, l-rhamnose, salicin, sucrose and d-trehalose but was unable to utilize arabitol,

d-galactose, d-sorbitol and xylitol. For nitrogen source utilization, d,l-alanine, l-arginine, l-asparagine, l-histidine, l-leucine, l-methionine, d,l-norleucine, l-phenylalanine, l-threonine and l-tryptophan were shown to be positive, while d,l-α-amino-n-butyric acid and l-cysteine were not. Chemotaxonomic tests of strain CMU-JT005 showed that the whole-cell hydrolysate was rich in l,l-diaminopimelic acid with no characteristic sugar pattern. The predominant menaquinone was MK-9 (H6). The predominant fatty acids of strain CMU-JT005 were anteiso C15:0 (32.9%),

C16:0 (18.5%) and anteiso C17:0 (10.1%). The DNA G+C content of this strain was 72.0 mol%. With the morphological characteristics of about spore chains, cell-wall chemotype I with no characteristic sugar, predominant menaquinone of MK-9 (H6) and DNA G+C content, it was clear that the strain CMU-JT005 belongs to the genus Streptomyces. Moreover, the 16S rRNA gene sequence of this strain was submitted to GenBank, accession number JN051293. 3-Methoxy-2-methyl-carbazole-1,4-quinone (1) was isolated as a green solid by Sephadex LH-20 chromatography. The (+)-ESI mass measurement gave pseudomolecular ion peaks at m/z 264 and 505 for [M+Na]+ and [2M+Na]+, respectively. HRESI MS (m/z 264.0636 [M+Na]+, calculated 264.0631 for C14H11NO3Na) established C14H11NO3 as the molecular formula. The UV spectrum in methanol showed maxima at 222, 225, 259, 264, 308 and 386 nm. In the aromatic region of the 1H NMR spectrum (Table 2), two 1H doublets and a 2H multiplet indicated a 1,2-disubstituted benzene ring. Signals of an aromatic methyl (δ 1.