''Pseudonocardia parietis'' is a bacterium from the genus of ''

Pseudonocardia ''Pseudonocardia'' is the type genus of the bacteria family Pseudonocardiaceae. Members of this genus have been found living mutualistically on the cuticle of the leafcutter ants because the bacteria has antibiotic properties that protect the fun ...

'' which has been isolated from a wall which was colonized with mould in Stuttgart in

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. It is a bacterium that is

Gram-positive In bacteriology, gram-positive bacteria are bacteria that give a positive result in the Gram stain test, which is traditionally used to quickly classify bacteria into two broad categories according to their type of cell wall. Gram-positive bac ...

, rod-shaped, spore-negative and is also a mycelium forming actinobacterium. It was found to have a 16s

rRNA Ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) is a type of non-coding RNA which is the primary component of ribosomes, essential to all cells. rRNA is a ribozyme which carries out protein synthesis in ribosomes. Ribosomal RNA is transcribed from riboso ...

gene sequence and was shown to belong to the

Pseudonocardiaceae The Pseudonocardiaceae are a family of bacteria in the order Actinomycetales and the only member of the suborder Pseudonocardineae. Genomics The species within the family Pseudonocardiaceae form a distinct clade in phylogenetic trees based on ...

family. It is most closely related to

Pseudonocardia antarctica ''Pseudonocardia antarctica'' is a bacterium from the genus of ''Pseudonocardia'' which has been isolated from soil from the McMurdo Dry Valleys from the Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. ...

and

Pseudonocardia alni ''Pseudonocardia alni'' is a bacterium from the genus of ''Pseudonocardia'' which has been isolated from the roots of the tree ''Alnus incana ''Alnus incana'', the grey alder or speckled alder, is a species of multi-stemmed, shrubby tree in t ...

References

Pseudonocardia Bacteria described in 2009 {{Pseudonocardineae-stub