| Saccharopolyspora |
| 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 | Saccharopolyspora |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-positive, non-acid fast |
| Morphology | Substrate mycelium well developed, branched, septate 0.4-0.6um in diameter, fragmenting into rod-shaped elements about 1.0 x 0.5 um, more often in older parts of the colony and seldom near the growing margins. Aerial mycelium 0.5-0.7 um in diameter, straight or in spirals, characteristically segmented into beadlike chains of spores, 0.7-1.3 x 0.5-0.7 um, usually separated by lengths of "empty" hypha and retained in a sheath |
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| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface | Colonies thin, raised or convex, slightly wrinkled, mucoid or gelatinous in appearance, with aerial mycelium sparse, often produced in tufts and mostly in the older parts |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Saccharopolyspora |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | |
| Oxygen | aerobic |
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| Requirements | Able to utilize many organic compounds as sole sources of carbon and for energy and growth, to degrade adenine and other substrates |
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| Unique features | resistant to many antibiotics but susceptible to lysozyme |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
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| Distribution |
| Genome | Saccharopolyspora |
| G+C Mol % | 77 (Tm). |
| Reference | Saccharopolyspora |
| First citation | Lacy, J. and Goodfellow, M., (1975) A novel actinomycete from sugar cane bagesse: Saccharopolyspora hirsuta gen. et sp. nov. J. Gen. Microbiol. 88:75-85 |
| Emended | Faenia rectivirgula renamed Saccharopolyspora rectivirgula Korn- Wendisch et al 1989 IJSB 39:430-441 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 1492 J. Lacey |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 630 |
| References |