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Amycolatopsis rifamycinica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Actinomycetota
Class:	Actinomycetia
Order:	Pseudonocardiales
Family:	Pseudonocardiaceae
Genus:	Amycolatopsis
Species:	A. rifamycinica
Binomial name
Amycolatopsis rifamycinica Bala et al. 2004
Type strain
ATCC 27643 DSM 46095 JCM 12674 NT 19

Amycolatopsis rifamycinica is a species of Gram-positive bacteria in the genus Amycolatopsis. It produces the rifamycin antibiotics (e.g., rifamycin SV), which are used to treat mycobacterial diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy. The type strain of Amycolatopsis rifamycinica (DSM 46095) has been reclassified several times. When it was first isolated from a French soil sample in 1957, it was identified as Streptomyces mediterranei. In 1969, the species was renamed Nocardia mediterranei because its cell wall was thought to resemble that of Nocardia species. The species was renamed Amycolatopsis mediterranei in 1986 after finding that it is not susceptible to Nocardia phage and has a cell wall that lacks mycolic acid. Finally, in 2004, it was determined that strain DSM 46095 represented a new species, independent of Amycolatopsis mediterranei, based on 16S ribosomal RNA sequencing. The new species was named Amycolatopsis rifamycinica.

References

1. ^ Bala S, Khanna R, Dadhwal M, Prabagaran SR, Shivaji S, Cullum J, Lal R (2004). "Reclassification of Amycolatopsis mediterranei DSM 46095 as Amycolatopsis rifamycinica sp. nov" (PDF). Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 54 (4): 1145–1149. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02901-0. PMID 15280283.
2. Saxena A, Kumari R, Mukherjee U, Singh P, Lal R (2014). "Draft genome sequence of the rifamycin producer Amycolatopsis rifamycinica DSM 46095". Genome Announcements. 2 (4): e00662-14. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00662-14. PMC 4082003. PMID 24994803.
3. Margalith P, Beretta G (1960). "Rifomycin. XI. Taxonomic study on Streptomyces mediterranei nov. sp". Mycopathol. Mycol. Appl. 8 (4): 321–330. doi:10.1007/BF02089930.
4. Thiemann JE, Zucco G, Pelizza G (1969). "A proposal for the transfer of Streptomyces mediterranei Margalith and Beretta 1960 to the genus Nocardia as Nocardia mediterranea (Margalith and Beretta) comb. nov". Arch. Mikrobiol. 67 (2): 147–155. doi:10.1007/bf00409680. PMID 5386179.
5. Lechevalier MP, Prauser H, Labeda DP, Ruan JS (1986). "Two new genera of nocardioform actinomycetes: Amycolata gen. nov. and Amycolatopsis gen. nov". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 36 (1): 29–37. doi:10.1099/00207713-36-1-29. Archived from the original on 2021-06-07. Retrieved 2018-12-29.

External links

• Type strain of Amycolatopsis rifamycinica at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

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