Cross Index	Corynebacterium
SuperSet	Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Irregular, Nonsporing Gram-Positive Rods
Compare	Acetobacterium Acetogenium kivui, Actinomyces Aeromicrobium erythreum Agromyces ramosus Arachnia propionica, Arcanobacterium haemolyticum, Arthrobacter, Aureobacterium, Bifidobacterium, Brachybacterium faecium, Brevibacterium, Butyrivibrio, Caseobacter polymorphus, Cellulomonas ,Clavibacter, Coriobacterium glomerans, Corynebacterium, Curtobacterium, Dermobacter hominus, Eubacterium, Exigouibacterium aurantiacum, Falcivibrio, Gardnerella, Jonsia denitrificans, Lachnospira multiparus, Microbacterium, Mobiluncus, Pimelobacter, Proprionibacterium, Rarobacter faecitabidus , Rothia dentocariosa, Rubrobacter radiotolerans, Sphaerobacter thermophilus , Terrabacter tumescens, Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus, Thermoanaerobium brockii
Contrast	Archaea
Subset

 

Morphology

Corynebacterium

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram positive but some cells stain unevenly
Morphology	straight to slightly curved rods with tapered ends. Club shaped forms may be observed. Snapping division produces angular and palisade arrangements of cells
Motility	nonmotile,
Specialized structures	Metachromatic granules formed

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Corynebacterium

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism
Oxygen	facultatively anaerobic although some organisms are aerobic
pH
Temperature
Requirements
Products
Enzymes	Catalase positive
Unique features	Cell wall peptidoglycan contains meso diaminopimelic acid. Major cell wall sugars are arabinose and galacto se. Short chain mycolic acids (approximate limiting range 22-36 carbon atoms) present.

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Corynebacterium

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Corynebacterium

First citation	Lehmann,K.B. and R.Neumann. 1896. Atlas unde Grundiss der Bakteriologie unde Lehrbruch der speciellen Backteriologischen Diagnostik. 1st ed. J.F. Lehmann Munchen
The Prokaryotes	P
Bergey's Systematatic	p 1266 M.D. Collins and C.S. Cummins
Bergey's Determinative	p 576

References