Actinopolyspora

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	Archaea
Subset

 

Morphology

Actinopolyspora

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram-positive and acid fast
Morphology	Branched filaments form extensive substrate mycelium about 1 um in diameter. Substrate mycelium is mostly unfragmented; fragmentation is occasionally observed near the colony center
Motility
Specialized structures	Sporophores containing 20 or more smooth-walled coccobacillary and coccoid spores are produced basipetally on aerial hyphae. Spores are not observed on substrate mycelium

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Actinopolyspora

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	Chemoorganotrophic,
Oxygen	aerobic.
pH
Temperature
Requirements	utilizing a number of different carbon sources. The one known species is extremely halophilic
Products
Enzymes
Unique features	The wall contains mes-diaminopimelic acid (meso-DAP) with arabinose and galactose. No mycolic acids present.

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Actinopolyspora

G+C Mol %

64.2

(spectrophotometric determination).

 

Reference	Actinopolyspora
First citation	Gochnauer, M.B., G.G.Leppard, P. Komaratat, M. Kates, T. Novitsky and D.J.Kushner.1975 Isolation and characterization of Actinopolyspora halophila, gen. et sp. nov., an extremely halophilic actinomycetes. Can J. Microbiol 21:1500-1511
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Systematatic	p2398 M. B. Gochnauer, K. B. Johnson and D.J. Kushner
Bergey's Determinative	p 628