| Cross Index | Tsukamurella |
| 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 | Tsukamurella |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram positive. Weakly to strongly acid fast |
| Morphology | The norcardioforms form a fugacious mycelium that breaks up into rod shaped or coccoid elements. Straight to slightly curved rods (0.5-0.8 x 1.0-5 um) that occur single, i pairs or in masses Very short rods may be present |
| Motility | |
| Specialized structures |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface | white, creamy to orange smal colonies 9o.5-2.0 mm in diameter) with convex elevation and entire edges. Colonies are dyrish but easily emuslified |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Tsukamurella |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | |
| Oxygen | obligate aerobes |
| pH | |
| Temperature | |
| RequiremTents | |
| Products | The glycan moiety of the cell wall has
N-glycolyl residues. The wall envelope contains mycolic
acids with 62-78 carbon atoms and up to six 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 20-22 carbon atoms. Cells contain diphosphatidylglecerol, phosphatidylethanolamine phosphatidylinositol and phosphatidiylinositol dimannosides as major phospholipids. Unsaturated menequinone with nine isoprene units is the predominant isoprenolog |
| Enzymes | |
| Unique features |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | isolated from soil, human sputum and the mycetomes and ovaries of bedbugs (Cimex lectularis) |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity | some strains cause infection of the lung, lethal meningitis and necrotizing tenosynovitis |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Tsukamurella |
| G+C Mol % |
| Reference | Tsukamurella |
| First Citation | Collins et al 1988 IJSB 38:385-391 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 627 |
| References |