Micromonospora

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Micromonospora
Three tubes with agar set on an angle have bacterial colonies streaked onto their surface. The bacterial colonies are differently coloured; the Micromonospora colonies are red in colour.
Micromonospora spp. (red colonies) on sloped agar medium, alongside 2 other tubes with differently coloured bacterial colonies.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetia
Order: Micromonosporales
Family: Micromonosporaceae
Genus: Micromonospora
Ørskov 1923 (Approved Lists 1980)
Type species
Micromonospora chalcea
Foulerton 1905; Ørskov 1923 (Approved Lists 1980)
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Jishengella Xie et al. 2011
  • Verrucosispora Rheims et al. 1998
  • Xiangella Wang et al. 2013

Micromonospora is a genus of

bacteria of the family Micromonosporaceae. The genus name was first proposed in 1923 by Danish physician Jeppe Ørskov in an attempt to classify what at the time was considered "ray fungi" based on morphology.[1] Members of this genus are found throughout natural soil and sediment environments, as well as in association with roots of plants of various species.[2]
The genus is well known for its ability to produce a variety of medically relevant products.

They are

antibiotics with spellings that end with -micin, such as gentamicin,[3] mutamicin,[4] netilmicin, retymicin, sisomicin,[5][6] verdamicin, calicheamicin, and the recently found turbinmicin.[7] Potent new antifungal drugs discovered in the microbiome of marine animals, unlike most other aminoglycoside names that end with -mycin (e.g. neomycin and streptomycin and are produced by Streptomyces spp.
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Species

Micromonospora comprises the following species:[8]

References

  1. ^ Ørskov, J. (1923). Investigations Into the Morphology of the Ray Fungi. Levin & Munksgaard.
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  7. ^ Fan Zhang et al.: A marine microbiome antifungal targets urgent-threat drug-resistant fungi. In: Science Vol. 370, Issue 6519, 20 Nov 2020, pp. 974-978. doi:10.1126/science.abd6919. See also:
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