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Appeared in: Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria

Editor list: Whitman, WB

Publication year: 2015

eISBN: 978-1-118-96060-8

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00192

Abstract: 

Ki.ta.sa.to.spo'ra. N.L. fem. n. Kitasatoa named for Shibasaburo Kitasato (1852–1931), a Japanese bacteriologist; N.L. fem. n. spora a seed and, in biology, a spore; N.L. fem. n. Kitasatospora Kitasato spore.

Actinobacteria / Actinobacteria / Streptomycetales / Streptomycetaceae / incertae sedis I. Kitasatospora

Aerobic. Gram-stain-positive, non-acid–alcohol-fast actinomycetes which form an intensively branched, non-fragmenting mycelium. A stable substrate mycelium is as well-developed as that of streptomycetes, and the aerial mycelium bears long spore chains of more than 20 spores. Does not form sporangia. The major constituents of the cell wall are glycine, galactose, and meso-A₂pm or LL-A₂pm, depending on the type of cells analyzed. When cells are grown on agar media, aerial spores contain LL-A₂pm, whereas the substrate mycelium contains meso-A₂pm. When cells are grown in liquid media, submerged spores which contain LL-A₂pm are formed while the filamentous mycelia contain meso-A₂pm. Whole-cell hydrolysates contain galactose, but lack arabinose, madurose, and xylose. Hexa- and octa-hydrogenated menaquinones with nine isoprene units are the predominant isoprenologs, cells are rich in saturated, iso- and anteiso-fatty acids, and have complex polar lipid patterns which contain diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol and phosphatidylinositol mannosides. The glycolate test is negative. The organism is chemo-organotrophic, and grows from 15 to 42°C, and within the pH range 5.5 to 9.0.

Source: not known.

DNA G+C content (mol%): 66–77.

Type species: Kitasatospora setae corrig. Ōmura, Takahashi, Iwai and Tanaka 1983, 672 (Effective publication: Ōmura, Takahashi, Iwai and Tanaka 1982, 1014).

Harvard Citation style: Kämpfer, P. (2015) incertae sedis I. Kitasatospora corrig, in Whitman, W. (ed.) Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00192

APA Citation style: Kämpfer, P. (2015). incertae sedis I. Kitasatospora corrig. In Whitman, W. (Ed.), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00192