Genomics of Actinobacteria: Tracing the Evolutionary History of an Ancient Phylum

M Ventura, C Canchaya, A Tauch… - Microbiology and …, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
Actinobacteria constitute one of the largest phyla among Bacteria and represent gram-
positive bacteria with a high G+ C content in their DNA. This bacterial group includes …

Phylogenetic framework and molecular signatures for the main clades of the phylum Actinobacteria

B Gao, RS Gupta - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
The phylum Actinobacteria harbors many important human pathogens and also provides
one of the richest sources of natural products, including numerous antibiotics and other …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria

I Nouioui, L Carro, M García-López… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The application of phylogenetic taxonomic procedures led to improvements in the
classification of bacteria assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria but even so there remains a …

[HTML][HTML] Expanding the genomic encyclopedia of Actinobacteria with 824 isolate reference genomes

R Seshadri, S Roux, KJ Huber, D Wu, S Yu, D Udwary… - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
The phylum Actinobacteria includes important human pathogens like Mycobacterium
tuberculosis and Corynebacterium diphtheriae and renowned producers of secondary …

Taxonomy, physiology, and natural products of Actinobacteria

EA Barka, P Vatsa, L Sanchez… - Microbiology and …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Actinobacteria are Gram-positive bacteria with high G+ C DNA content that constitute one of
the largest bacterial phyla, and they are ubiquitously distributed in both aquatic and …

Conserved indels in protein sequences that are characteristic of the phylum Actinobacteria

B Gao, RS Gupta - International journal of systematic and …, 2005 - microbiologyresearch.org
Gram-positive bacteria with a high G+ C content are currently recognized as a distinct
phylum, Actinobacteria, on the basis of their branching in 16S rRNA trees. Except for an …

Ecology and genomics of Actinobacteria: new concepts for natural product discovery

DA van Bergeijk, BR Terlouw, MH Medema… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Actinobacteria constitute a highly diverse bacterial phylum with an unrivalled metabolic
versatility. They produce most of the clinically used antibiotics and a plethora of other natural …

Phylogeny of the class Actinobacteria revisited in the light of complete genomes. The orders 'Frankiales' and Micrococcales should be split into coherent entities …

A Sen, V Daubin, D Abrouk, I Gifford… - … of systematic and …, 2014 - microbiologyresearch.org
The phylogeny of the class Actinobacteria remains controversial, essentially because it is
very sensitive to the choice of dataset and phylogenetic methods. We used a test proposed …

Signature proteins that are distinctive characteristics of Actinobacteria and their subgroups

B Gao, R Paramanathan, RS Gupta - Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, 2006 - Springer
The Actinobacteria constitute one of the main phyla of Bacteria. Presently, no morphological
and very few molecular characteristics are known which can distinguish species of this …

[HTML][HTML] Actinomycetes: The antibiotics producers

Y Mast, E Stegmann - Antibiotics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Actinomycetes are well known as an inexhaustible source for antibiotics. Most of the known
antimicrobials today were originally isolated from actinomycetes, especially from the genus …