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==Description and Significance== | ==Description and Significance== | ||
Dietzia cinnamea is rod shaped in the medical swab while the P4 strain from the soil samples produces a coccoid shape. The organism forms smooth, yellow to orange colonies on agar plates and is single or arranges in small connected colonies. It is gram positive and has a high G+C content, meaning a high number of Guanine and Cytosine (Von der Weid, 2006). It displays snapping division, which is the arrangement of cells in a palisade or angular manor resulting from binary fission (Prescott, 2002). This is a characteristic of the genera Arthrobacter and Corynebacterium. | |||
==Genome Structure== | ==Genome Structure== | ||
==Cell Structure, Metabolism, and Life Cycle== | ==Cell Structure, Metabolism, and Life Cycle== | ||
Revision as of 14:44, 23 April 2011
Classification
Bacteria
Actinobacteria
Actinobacteria
Actinomycetales
Corynebacterineae
Dietziaceae
Dietzia
Species: Dietzia cinnamea
NCBI Taxonomy ID:[1]
Description and Significance
Dietzia cinnamea is rod shaped in the medical swab while the P4 strain from the soil samples produces a coccoid shape. The organism forms smooth, yellow to orange colonies on agar plates and is single or arranges in small connected colonies. It is gram positive and has a high G+C content, meaning a high number of Guanine and Cytosine (Von der Weid, 2006). It displays snapping division, which is the arrangement of cells in a palisade or angular manor resulting from binary fission (Prescott, 2002). This is a characteristic of the genera Arthrobacter and Corynebacterium.
Genome Structure
Cell Structure, Metabolism, and Life Cycle
Ecology and Pathogenesis
Samples of this organism have been extracted from petroleum contaminated soil characterized in acidic sandy loam Cambisol soil in a protected habitat in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil as well as the perianal swab from a patient with a bone marrow transplant (Yassin, 2006; von der Weid, 2006). Multiple strains of Dietzia have been found in soil, deep sea sediment, and soda lakes (Gerday & Glansdorff, 2007).
