Kutzneria
Kutzneria is a genus of bacteria in Phylum Actinobacteria. Three species of Kutzneria have been described as of 2001.[2] This genus was named after Hans-Jürgen Kutzner, a German microbiologist.
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| Genus: | Kutzneria Stackebrandt et al. 1994[1] |
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| Kutzneria viridogrisea[1] | |
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K. albida[1] | |
Morphology & Biology
Kutzneria are non-motile, aerobic, mesophilic, thermotolerant, Gram positive, chemo-organotrophs. They have stable, branched, cottony aerial mycelium. Their cell walls contain N-acetylated muramic acid and meso-diaminopimelic acid. They produce spores which are either cocci, bacilli or oval. They are long sporangiophores measuring up to 50 micrometres which are formed by septation of coiled, unbranched hyphae within the sporangiophores.[3]
Species
The three species are:
1. Kutzneria albida; first described by Furumai, Ogawa, and Okuda in 1968,
2. Kutzneria kofuensis; first described by Nonomura and Ohara 1969 (named after Kofu, a district in Japan, where the organism was isolated[3]),
3. Kutzneria viridogrisea; first described by Okuda, Furumai, Watanabe, Okugawa, and Kimura in 1966.
These species were previously classified under the family Streptosporangiaceae (suborder Streptosporangineae) and were known as Streptosporangium albidum, Streptosporangium viridogriseum (subspecies kofuense), and Streptosporangium viridogriseum, respectively.[3]
References
- Parte, A.C. "Kutzneria". www.bacterio.net.
- Brock Biology of Microorganisms; Madigan (et al.); Pearson Education Inc., 2003; Appendix 2, pg. A-12.
- STACKEBRANDT, E.; KROPPENSTEDT, R. M.; JAHNKE, K.-D.; KEMMERLING, C.; GÜRTLER, H. (1994). "Transfer of Streptosporangium viridogriseum (Okuda et al. 1966), Streptosporangium viridogriseum subsp. kofuense (Nonomura and Ohara 1969), and Streptosporangium albidum (Furumai et al. 1968) to Kutzneria gen. nov. as Kutzneria viridogrisea comb. nov., Kutzneria kofuensis comb. nov., and Kutzneria albida comb. nov., Respectively, and Emendation of the Genus Streptosporangium". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 44 (2): 265–269. doi:10.1099/00207713-44-2-265.
Further reading
- Suriyachadkun, C.; Ngaemthao, W.; Chunhametha, S.; Tamura, T.; Sanglier, J.-J. (2013). "Kutzneria buriramensis sp. nov., isolated from soil, and emended description of the genus Kutzneria". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63 (1): 47–52. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.036533-0.