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