Micromonospora

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Micromonospora
Micromonospora spp. (red colonies).
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria Phylum: Actinobacteria Order: Actinomycetales Family: Micromonosporaceae Genus: Micromonospora Ørskov 1923
Species
See text.

Micromonospora is a genus of bacteria of the family Micromonosporaceae. They are gram-positive, spore-forming, generally aerobic, and form a branched mycelium; they occur as saprotrophic forms in soil and water. Various species are sources of aminoglycoside antibiotics, which spellings often ends by micin, unlike most other aminoglycoside names that end with mycin to highlight the very different species from which they originate (e.g. neomycin and streptomycin, produced by Streptomyces spp.).

[edit] Species

• Micromonospora aurantiaca
• Micromonospora carbonacea
• Micromonospora chalcea
• Micromonospora chersina
• Micromonospora citrea
• Micromonospora coerulea
• Micromonospora echinaurantiaca
• Micromonospora echinofusca
• Micromonospora echinospora
• Micromonospora fulviviridis
• Micromonospora gallica
• Micromonospora halophytica
• Micromonospora inositola - produces the antibiotic sisomicin
• Micromonospora inyonensis - produces the antibiotics mutamicin and netilmicin
• Micromonospora nigra
• Micromonospora olivasterospora
• Micromonospora pallida
• Micromonospora peucetia
• Micromonospora purpureochromogenes - produces the antibiotic gentamicin
• Micromonospora rosaria
• Micromonospora sagamiensis
• Micromonospora viridifaciens

[edit] References

• Kroppenstedt R.M., Mayilraj S., Wink J.M., Kallow W., Schumann P., Secondini C., and E. Stackebrandt. 2005. Eight new species of the genus Micromonospora, Micromonospora citrea sp. nov., Micromonospora echinaurantiaca sp. nov., Micromonospora echinofusca sp. nov. Micromonospora fulviviridis sp. nov., Micromonospora inyonensis sp. nov., Micromonospora peucetia sp. nov., Micromonospora sagamiensis sp. nov., and Micromonospora viridifaciens sp. nov.. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 28(4):328-39.
• Christine C.C. and E. Sanders. 1973. Sisomicin: Evaluation In Vitro and Comparison with Gentamicin and Tobramycin. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 3(1):24-28.