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Actinomadura

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Actinomadura
Actinomadura macrotermitis on agar plate
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetia
Order: Streptosporangiales
Family: Thermomonosporaceae
Genus: Actinomadura
Lechevalier and Lechevalier 1968
Species

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Synonyms
  • Excellospora Agre and Guzeva 1975 (Approved Lists 1980)

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]

Species

Actinomadura comprises the following species:[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Zhang Z; Kudo T; Nakajima Y; Wang Y (2001). "Clarification of the relationship between the members of the family Thermomonosporaceae on the basis of 16S rDNA, 16S-23S rRNA internal transcribed spacer and 23S rDNA sequences and chemotaxonomic analyses". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 51 (Pt 2): 373–383. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-2-373. PMID 11321082.
  2. ^ a b EUZéBY JP (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". Int J Syst Bacteriol. 47 (2): 590–592. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. PMID 9103655. Retrieved 2013-05-22.
  3. ^ Kroppenstedt, RM; Stackebrandt, E; Goodfellow, M (1990). "Taxonomic revision of the actinomycete genera Actinomadura and Microtetraspora". Syst Appl Microbiol. 13 (2): 148–160. doi:10.1016/S0723-2020(11)80162-1.