| Glycomyces |
| Morphology | Glycomyces |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram- positive |
| Morphology | Branching vegetative hyphae, approximately 0.40 um in diameter, with aerial mycelium produced on some media. The vegetative mycelium does not fragment, but short chains of square-ended conidia develop on the aerial hyphae |
| Motility | |
| Specialized structures |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Glycomyces |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | Chemoorganotrophic. |
| Oxygen | aerobic. |
| pH | |
| Temperature | |
| Requirements | |
| Products | |
| Enzymes | Catalase positive |
| Unique features | Lysozyme sensitive. Cell wall contains major amounts of meso-diaminopimelic acid (meso-DAP) and glycine. Whole-cell sugar pattern consists of xylose and arabinose. No nitrogenous phospholipids, but significant amounts of phosphatidylinositol mannosides are present. No mycolic acids are present. Principal menaquinones are MK-10(H2) and MK-10(H6). |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Glycomyces |
| G+C Mol % | 71-73 (Tm) |
| Reference | Glycomyces |
| First citation | Labeda,D.P., R.T. Testa, M.P. Lechevalier and H.A. Lechevalier. 1985 Glycomyces, a new genus of the Actinomycetales. IJSB. 35:417-421 |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 2586 David P. Labeda |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 701 |
| References |