Disease relevance of Gordonia Bacterium

• Methods were evaluated on stationary-phase cultures of Gordona bronchialis, Mycobacterium fortuitum, Nocardia asteroides, N. brasiliensis, Rhodococcus equi, R. erythropolis, R. fascians, R. rhodochrous and Tsukamurella paurometabola, none of which could be probed following 4% (w/v) paraformaldehyde fixation [1].
• Desulfurizations of a model oil (hexadecane containing dibenzothiophene (DBT)) and a diesel oil by immobilized DBT-desulfurizing bacterial strains, Gordona sp. CYKS1 and Nocardia sp. CYKS2, were carried out [2].
• The analysis showed, furthermore, that strains of Mycobacterium differ from those of Nocardia, Rhodococcus, "Mycobacterium album", and "Gordona aurantiaca" in being more sensitive to prothionamide than these organisms [3].

High impact information on Gordonia Bacterium

• Isolation of a unique benzothiophene-desulphurizing bacterium, Gordona sp. strain 213E (NCIMB 40816), and characterization of the desulphurization pathway [4].
• Gordona sp. strain 213E was unable to grow in a mineral salts medium containing fructose as a source of carbon and energy and DBT as the sole sulphur source [4].
• PCR products of Rhodococcus sp., Nocardioides sp., Gordona sp. and Sphingomonas sp. growing additionally or solely with medium-chain n-alkane as hexadecane had only few sequence identity with alkB though hybridizing with the gene probe [5].
• A mycolic acid-containing glycolipid, trehalose 2,3,6'-trimycolate, prepared from a non-pathogenic acid-fast bacterium Gordona aurantiaca, was shown to induce strong tumoricidal activity in peritoneal exudate cells by intravenous or intraperitoneal injection of liposome-encapsulated preparations [6].
• The degree of binding was determined between DNA preparations from gordonae and rhodochrous strains and uracil-labelled DNA from five reference strains, Nocardia asteroides NK20, N. pellegrino PII, Gordona bronchialis TI, G. terrae T5 and rhodochrous strain R90 [7].

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