Summary
Saccharopolyspora spinosa is a species of actinobacterium first isolated from soil in a rum still in an abandoned sugar mill on the Virgin Islands. It was discovered and described by researchers Mertz and Yao while collecting specimens to be screened for novel antibiotics.[1] It develops aerial, pale, yellowish pink hyphae and bears long chains of spores encased in spiny spore sheaths. It can also reproduce by fragmentation in an aqueous environment. Its type strain is A83543.1 (= NRRL 18395).
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Actinomycetota |
| Class: | Actinomycetia |
| Order: | Pseudonocardiales |
| Family: | Pseudonocardiaceae |
| Genus: | Saccharopolyspora |
| Species: | S. spinosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Saccharopolyspora spinosa Mertz and Yao 1990
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Saccharopolyspora spinosa is the source of a family of insecticidal compounds called spinosyns. They act as neurotoxins by activation of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in insects. The insecticide Spinetoram is composed of two synthetic derivatives of spinosyns.[2]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Mertz, F. P.; Yao, R. C. (1990). "Saccharopolyspora spinosa sp. nov. Isolated from Soil Collected in a Sugar Mill Rum Still". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 40 (1): 34–39. doi:10.1099/00207713-40-1-34. ISSN 0020-7713.
- ^ Bacci L, Lupi D, Savoldelli S, Rossaro B (28 April 2016). "A review of Spinosyns, a derivative of biological acting substances as a class of insecticides with a broad range of action against many insect pests". Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research. 48 (1): 40. doi:10.4081/jear.2016.5653. hdl:2434/380778. ISSN 2279-7084. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
Further reading edit
- Pan, Y.; Yang, X.; Li, J.; Zhang, R.; Hu, Y.; Zhou, Y.; Wang, J.; Zhu, B. (2011). "Genome Sequence of the Spinosyns-Producing Bacterium Saccharopolyspora spinosa NRRL 18395". Journal of Bacteriology. 193 (12): 3150–3151. doi:10.1128/JB.00344-11. ISSN 0021-9193. PMC 3133185. PMID 21478350.
- Kim, Hak Joong; White-Phillip, Jess A.; Ogasawara, Yasushi; Shin, Nara; Isiorho, Eta A.; Liu, Hung-wen (2010). "Biosynthesis of Spinosyn in Saccharopolyspora spinosa: Synthesis of Permethylated Rhamnose and Characterization of the Functions of SpnH, SpnI, and SpnK". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132 (9): 2901–2903. doi:10.1021/ja910223x. ISSN 0002-7863. PMC 2832084. PMID 20158237.
- Jin, Zhi-hua; Wu, Jian-ping; Zhang, Yuan; Cheng, Xiu; Yang, Li-rong; Cen, Pei-lin (2006). "Improvement of spinosad producing Saccharopolyspora spinosa by rational screening". Journal of Zhejiang University Science A. 7 (S2): 366–370. doi:10.1631/jzus.2006.AS0366. ISSN 1009-3095. S2CID 122475979.
External links edit
- "Saccharopolyspora spinosa" at the Encyclopedia of Life
- Type strain of Saccharopolyspora spinosa at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
