Distribution of isoprenoid quinone structural types in bacteria and their taxonomic implication

MD Collins, D Jones - Microbiological reviews, 1981 - Am Soc Microbiol
Isoprenoid quinones are constituents of bac-terial plasma membranes (176) and play impor-
tant roles in electron transport, oxidative phosphorylation, and, possibly, active transport (19 …

Clinical and Laboratory Features of the Nocardia spp. Based on Current Molecular Taxonomy

BA Brown-Elliott, JM Brown, PS Conville… - Clinical microbiology …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
The recent explosion of newly described species of Nocardia results from the impact in the
last decade of newer molecular technology, including PCR restriction enzyme analysis and …

An integrated procedure for the extraction of bacterial isoprenoid quinones and polar lipids

DE Minnikin, AG O'donnell, M Goodfellow… - Journal of …, 1984 - Elsevier
A simple small-scale procedure for the sequential extraction of isoprenoid quinones and
polar lipids from bacterial cells was developed. Extraction with a biphasic mixture of …

4 Lipid and cell-wall analysis in bacterial systematics

K Komagata, KI Suzuki - Methods in microbiology, 1988 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary Recent advances in the biochemistry of microorganisms have revealed
that cell-component analysis can be effectively applied to bacterial systematics, providing …

Numerical Classification of Streptomyces and Related Genera

ST Williams, M Goodfellow, G Alderson… - …, 1983 - microbiologyresearch.org
Four hundred and seventy-five strains, which included 394 type cultures of Streptomyces
and representatives of 14 other actinomycete genera, were studied. Overall similarities of …

Fatty Acid and Polar Lipid Composition in the Classification of Cellulomonas, Oerskovia and Related Taxa

DE Minnikin, MD Collins… - Journal of Applied …, 1979 - academic.oup.com
Strains representing the taxa Cellulomonas, Oerskovia, Brevibacterium fermentans,
Corynebacterium manihot and Nocardia cellulans were degraded by acid methanolysis and …

Lipids in the classification and identification of coryneform bacteria containing peptidoglycans based on 2, 4‐diaminobutyric acid

MD Collins, D JONES - Journal of Applied Microbiology, 1980 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Strains of 2, 4‐diaminobutyric acid‐containing coryneform bacteria were degraded
by acid methanolysis and the non‐hydroxylated fatty acid esters released examined by thin …

Biosynthesis of vitamin K (menaquinone) in bacteria

R Bentley, R Meganathan - Microbiological reviews, 1982 - Am Soc Microbiol
INTRODUCTION Als der geistige Vater der Vitaminlehre ist wohl Gowland Hopkins zu
betrachten.... F. Rohmann, 1916 (183) Research work on a disease (Johne's Disease) which …

Naxibacter alkalitolerans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family 'Oxalobacteraceae' isolated from China

P Xu, WJ Li, SK Tang, YQ Zhang… - … of systematic and …, 2005 - microbiologyresearch.org
A taxonomic study was performed on strain YIM 31775T, which was isolated from a soil
sample collected from Yunnan Province, China. The isolate was chemo-organotrophic …

The medically important aerobic actinomycetes: epidemiology and microbiology

MM McNeil, JM Brown - Clinical microbiology reviews, 1994 - Am Soc Microbiol
The aerobic actinomycetes are soil-inhabiting microorganisms that occur worldwide. In
1888, Nocard first recognized the pathogenic potential of this group of microorganisms …