| Kineospora aurantiaca |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Actinomycetes, Streptomycetes and Related Genera |
| Compare | Intrasporangium calvum, Kineospora aurantiaca, Sporichthya polymorpha, Streptomyces, Streptoverticillium |
| Contrast | Nocardioform Actinomycetes, Actinomycetes with Multilocular Sporangia , Actinoplanetes , Streptomycetes and Related Genera Maduromycetes, Thermomonospora & Friends , Thermoactinomycetes, Actinomycetes: Other Genera |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Kineospora aurantiaca |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-positive and not acid-fast. |
| Morphology | Small colonies of 0.5-2 mm in diameter, colourless for the first few days of growth, turning cream to orange there- after. Surface of the colony becomes moist and of glossy appearance with age. Colonial morphology variable even on the same agar plate, ranging from conical-crateriform to cerebriform. The vegetative mycelium consists of fine (1 um in diameter), slightly branched hyphae. Aerial mycelium has never been observed on any medium tested. Sporangia appear as elongated, club-shaped vesicles of 1-2 um in diameter, borne at the terminal end of the vegetative hyphae. Each sporangium contains a single spore. The spores are pleomorphic, their shape ranging from nearly spherical to oval or pyriform. The long axes of the spores vary between 1 and 2 um |
| Motility | Upon sporangium dehiscence, the spores are motile for several hours, with a polar tuft of flagella |
| Specialized structures |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Kineospora aurantiaca |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | Chemoorganotrophic |
| Oxygen | Aerobic. |
| pH | Optimum pH 7.0 |
| Temperature | Optimum temperature for growth and sporulation is 20-30`C, with no growth at or above 37`C. |
| Requirements | use a range of simple sugars |
| Products | |
| Enzymes | |
| Unique features | The peptidoglycan of the cell wall contains L-diaminopimelic acid (L-DAP) a very small amount of meso-DAP, and glycine. Traces of lysine are also found |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | occurs free-living in soil. |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity | Nonpathogenic to mice |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Kineospora aurantiaca |
| G+C Mol % |
| Reference | Kineospora aurantiaca |
| First citation | Pagani, H. and F.Parenti 1978. Kineosporia, a new genus of the order Actinomycetales. IJSB 28: 401-406 |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 2504 F. Parenti |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 667 |
| References |