Actinomadura | |
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Actinomadura macrotermitis on agar plate | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Actinomycetota |
Class: | Actinomycetia |
Order: | Streptosporangiales |
Family: | Thermomonosporaceae |
Genus: |
Actinomadura Lechevalier and Lechevalier 1968 |
Species | |
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Synonyms | |
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The genus Actinomadura is one of four genera of Actinomycetota that belong to the family Thermomonosporaceae. It contains aerobic, Gram-positive, non-acid-fast, non-motile, chemo-organotrophic actinomycetes that produce well-developed, non-fragmenting vegetative mycelia and aerial hyphae that differentiate into surface-ornamented spore chains. These chains are of various lengths and can be straight, hooked or spiral. [1] The genus currently comprises over 70 species with validly published names with standing in nomenclature, [2] although the species status of some strains remains uncertain, and further comparative studies are needed. [1]
Members of the genus are not characterized chemotaxonomically by type III/B cell walls (meso-diaminopimelic acid and madurose are present) with peptidoglycan structures of the acetyl type. The predominant menaquinone types are MK-9(H4), MK-9(H6) and MK-9(H8). The phospholipid pattern is PI (diphosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylinositol are present as major phospholipids) and the fatty acid pattern is type 3a (branched saturated and unsaturated fatty acids plus tuberculostearic acid). [3]
Actinomadura comprises the following species: [2]
Actinomadura | |
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Actinomadura macrotermitis on agar plate | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Actinomycetota |
Class: | Actinomycetia |
Order: | Streptosporangiales |
Family: | Thermomonosporaceae |
Genus: |
Actinomadura Lechevalier and Lechevalier 1968 |
Species | |
See text | |
Synonyms | |
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The genus Actinomadura is one of four genera of Actinomycetota that belong to the family Thermomonosporaceae. It contains aerobic, Gram-positive, non-acid-fast, non-motile, chemo-organotrophic actinomycetes that produce well-developed, non-fragmenting vegetative mycelia and aerial hyphae that differentiate into surface-ornamented spore chains. These chains are of various lengths and can be straight, hooked or spiral. [1] The genus currently comprises over 70 species with validly published names with standing in nomenclature, [2] although the species status of some strains remains uncertain, and further comparative studies are needed. [1]
Members of the genus are not characterized chemotaxonomically by type III/B cell walls (meso-diaminopimelic acid and madurose are present) with peptidoglycan structures of the acetyl type. The predominant menaquinone types are MK-9(H4), MK-9(H6) and MK-9(H8). The phospholipid pattern is PI (diphosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylinositol are present as major phospholipids) and the fatty acid pattern is type 3a (branched saturated and unsaturated fatty acids plus tuberculostearic acid). [3]
Actinomadura comprises the following species: [2]