Cross Index | Gordona |
SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Actinomycetes, Nocardioform Actinomycetes |
Compare | Actinobispora yunnanensis, Actinokineospora riparia , Actinopolyspora, Amycolata, Amycolatopsis Gordona, Jonesia denitrificans, Kibdelosporangium, Nocardia, Nocardioides,Oerskovia , Promicromonospora Pseudoamycolata halophobica, Pseudonocardia Rhodococcus Saccharomonospora Saccharopolyspora Terrabacter tumescens, Tsukamurella |
Contrast | Nocardioform Actinomycetes Actinomycetes with Multilocular Sporangia Actinoplanetes Streptomycetes and Related Genera Maduromycetes Thermomonospora & Friends Thermoactinomycetes, Actinomycetes: Other Genera |
Subset |
Morphology | Gordona |
CELLULAR |
Staining | Gram positive or Gram variable, partially acid fast |
Morphology | The norcardioforms form a fugacious mycelium that breaks up into rod shaped or coccoid elements.Short rods and cocci |
Motility | |
Specialized structures |
Division |
COLONIAL |
Solid surface | rough brownish, pink or orange to red colonies on glucose yeast extract, Sauton's agar and egg media |
Liquid |
Growth Parameters | Gordona |
PHYSIOLOGICAL |
Tropism | |
Oxygen | aerobic |
pH | |
Temperature | |
Requirements | |
Products | contain mycobactins, the glycan moitety
of the cell wall has N-glycolyl residues. The wall
envelope contains mycolic acids with 48-66 carbon atoms
and up to four double bonds and major proportions of
straight chain saturated, monounsaturated and 10-methyl
(tuberculosteric) branched fatty acids. Fatty acid esters
released on pyrolysis gas chromatography of mycolic
esters have 16-18 carbon atoms. Cells contain diphosphatidylglecerol, phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidiylinositol dimannosides as major phospholipids. Dihydrogenated menequinone with nine isoprene units is the predominant isoprenolog |
Enzymes | |
Unique features |
ENVIRONMENTAL |
Habitat | soil, isolated from the sputa of patients with bronchiectasis and cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis |
Lifestyle | |
Pathogenicity |
Distribution |
Genome | Gordona |
G+C Mol % |
Reference | Gordona |
First Citation | Stackebrandt et al 1988 J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol 34: 341-348 |
The Prokaryotes | p |
Bergey's Determinative | p 625-626 |
References |