The resulting nucleotides were dephosphorylised
using bovine alkaline phosphatase (Mesbah et al.,
1989) and deoxyribonucleosides were then analysed by
HPLC (Tamaoka & Komagata, 1984) and the DNA G+C
content (mol%) was calculated from the ratio of
deoxyguanosine and thymidine (Mesbah et al., 1989).
The genomic DNA G+C content determined for strain
WS4601T was 70.4 mol%, which was well within the range
reported for established members of the genus Micrococcus