Abstract:[Objective] To screen the 1-deoxynojirimycin producing strains by employing high performance liquid chromatography with pre-column derivatization and then perform phylogenetic identification. [Methods] High performance liquid chromatography with 9-fluorenylmethyl chloroformate (FMOC-Cl) pre-column derivatization was a way of screening the DNJ producing strains. The polyphasic taxonomic characteristics, including morphological, physiological and biochemical characteristics, as well as comparative sequence analysis of 16S rDNA were used to identify strain. Then, a fermentation study was carried out on the scale of 10 L fermentor and DNJ content was determined by high performance liquid chromatography with 9-fluorenylmethyl chloroformat (FMOC-Cl) pre-column derivatization. [Results] A DNJ producing strain, namely PW409, which was subsequently identified as Streptomyces gobitricini, was obtained from 80 actinomycetes strains possessing α-glucosidase inhibitory activity. Fermentation study showed that DNJ belonged to a secondary metabolism of strain PW409, and the concentration of DNJ in fermentation broth was 12.1 mg/L. [Conclusion] This article first applies high performance liquid chromatography with 9-fluorenylmethyl chloroformat (FMOC-Cl) pre-column derivatization to screen DNJ producing strains as well as first identifies DNJ from the fermentation broth of Streptomyces gobitricini.