| Saccharothrix |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Actinomycetes, Actinomycetes: Other Genera |
| Compare | Glycomyces, Kitasatosporia, Saccharothrix |
| Contrast | Nocardioform Actinomycetes, Actinomycetes with Multilocular Sporangia , Actinoplanetes , Streptomycetes and Related Genera Maduromycetes, Thermomonospora & Friends, Thermoactinomycetes, Actinomycetes: Other Genera |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Saccharothrix |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-positive |
| Morphology | Branching vegetative mycelium, approximately 0.5 um in diameter. Aerial mycelium produced on some growth media. Both vegetative and aerial hyphae fragment into ovoid to bacillary elements |
| Motility | nonmotile |
| Specialized structures |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Saccharothrix |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | Chemoorganotrophic. |
| Oxygen | aerobic |
| pH | |
| Temperature | . Optimum growth temperature 28-32`C |
| Requirements | |
| Products | |
| Enzymes | Catalase positive |
| Unique features | Lysozyme resistant. and. Cell wall contains meso-diaminopimelic acid (meso-DAP) but not glycine. whole-cell sugar pattern has galactose and rhamnose in major amounts as the diagnostic components. Phosphatidylethanolamine is the major phospholipid. No nocardomycolic acids are present in cells. |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Saccharothrix |
| G+C Mol % | 70-76 (Tm) |
| Reference | Saccharothrix |
| First citation | Labeda,D. P., R.T. Testa, M.P. Lechaevalier and H. A.Lechevalier. 1984. Saccharothrix, a new genus of the Actinomycetales related to Nocardiopsis IJSB 34: 426-431. |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 2599 David P. Labeda |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 701 |
| References |