Dietzia cinnamea: Difference between revisions
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The full DNA code for D.cinnamea has been partially sequenced and contains 550 bp (Von der Weid, 2006). | |||
==Cell Structure, Metabolism, and Life Cycle== | ==Cell Structure, Metabolism, and Life Cycle== | ||
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Revision as of 15:13, 23 April 2011
Classification
Bacteria
Actinobacteria
Actinobacteria
Actinomycetales
Corynebacterineae
Dietziaceae
Dietzia
Species: Dietzia cinnamea
NCBI Taxonomy ID:[1]
Description and Significance
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).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 linkages in its DNA(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
The full DNA code for D.cinnamea has been partially sequenced and contains 550 bp (Von der Weid, 2006).
