Terrabacter tumescens

Cross Index	Terrabacter tumescens
SuperSet	Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Actinomycetes, Nocardioform Actinomycetes and Gram positive irregular rods
Compare	Nocardioform Actinomycetes Actinobispora yunnanensis, Actinokineospora riparia , Actinopolyspora, Amycolata, Amycolatopsis Gordona, Jonesia denitrificans, Kibdelosporangium, Nocardia, Nocardioides,Oerskovia , Promicromonospora Pseudoamycolata halophobica, Pseudonocardia Rhodococcus Saccharomonospora Saccharopolyspora Terrabacter tumescens, Tsukamurella Gram positive irregular rods 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, Jonesia denitrificans, Lachnospira multiparus, Microbacterium, Proprionibacterium, Mobiluncus, Pimelobacter, Proprionibacterium, Rarobacter faecitabidus , Rothia dentocariosa, Rubrobacter radiotolerans, Sphaerobacter thermophilus , Terrabacter tumescens, Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus, Thermoanaerobium brockii
Contrast	Nocardioform Actinomycetes Actinomycetes with Multilocular Sporangia Actinoplanetes Streptomycetes and Related Genera Maduromycetes Thermomonospora & Friends Thermoactinomycetes, Actinomycetes: Other Genera Archaea
Subset	organisms previously classified as Arthrobracter tumescens or Pimelobacter tumescens were moved into the Terrobacter

Morphology

Terrabacter tumescens

CELLULAR

Staining
Morphology	The norcardioforms form a fugacious mycelium that breaks up into rod shaped or coccoid elements long rods show primary branching cells from older cultures aer coccoid (0.5-0.8 um in diameter) After transfer to fresh comlex media, long irregular rods (0.6-1.2 x 2.0- 60 um) are formed
Motility	usually non motile although motile strains do occur
Specialized structures	rod-coccus growth cycle occurs druing growth on complex media

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

aerial mycelium is not produced

Liquid

Growth Parameters

Terrabacter tumescens

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism
Oxygen
pH
Temperature	growth range 10-35 ^oC, optimum 250 30 ^oC, does not survie heating to 63 ^oC for 30 min
Requirements	Thiamine is required for growth
Products	acid not produced from sugasrs in peptone based media, cellulose not hydrolysed, nitrate reduced to nitrite Cells contain diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidiylinositol as major phospholipids. some unidentified amino contining phosphoglycolipids are present. Tetrahydrogenated menequinone with eight isoprene units is the predominant isoprenolog
Enzymes	oxidase negative
Unique features	growth in the presence of 5% NaCl

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat	soil
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

Genome

Terrabacter tumescens

G+C Mol %

Reference

Terrabacter tumescens

First Citation	Collins et al 1989 IJSB 39:1-6
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Determinative	p 631-632, p581

References