Concepts and methods to access novel antibiotics from actinomycetes

JJ Hug, CD Bader, M Remškar, K Cirnski, R Müller - Antibiotics, 2018 - mdpi.com
Actinomycetes have been proven to be an excellent source of secondary metabolites for
more than half a century. Exhibiting various bioactivities, they provide valuable approved …

Mining actinomycetes for novel antibiotics in the omics era: are we ready to exploit this new paradigm?

O Genilloud - Antibiotics, 2018 - mdpi.com
The current spread of multi-drug resistance in a number of key pathogens and the lack of
therapeutic solutions in development to address most of the emerging infections in the clinic …

Actinomycetes: still a source of novel antibiotics

O Genilloud - Natural product reports, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2006 to 2017 Actinomycetes have been, for decades, one of the most important
sources for the discovery of new antibiotics with an important number of drugs and analogs …

Renaissance in antibacterial discovery from actinomycetes

RH Baltz - Current opinion in pharmacology, 2008 - Elsevier
The soil actinomycetes have been important sources of antibiotics, but were nearly
abandoned in recent years in favor of high-throughput target-based screening of chemical …

Renewed interests in the discovery of bioactive actinomycete metabolites driven by emerging technologies

J Ossai, B Khatabi, SE Nybo… - Journal of applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Actinomycetes are prolific sources of bioactive molecules. Traditional workflows including
bacterial isolation, fermentation, metabolite identification and structure elucidation have …

Biodiscovery from rare actinomycetes: an eco-taxonomical perspective

DI Kurtböke - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2012 - Springer
Microbial natural products, in particular, the ones produced by the members of the order
Actinomycetales, will continue to represent an important route to the discovery of novel …

Challenges and advances in genetic manipulation of filamentous actinomycetes–the remarkable producers of specialized metabolites

EM Musiol-Kroll, A Tocchetti, M Sosio… - Natural Product …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to February 2019 Actinomycetes are Gram positive bacteria of the phylum
Actinobacteria. These organisms are one of the most important sources of structurally …

Uncovering the biodiversity and biosynthetic potentials of rare actinomycetes

CE Ezeobiora, NH Igbokwe, DH Amin… - Future Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background Antibiotic resistance is on the rise, and new antibiotic research has slowed in
recent years, necessitating the discovery of possibly novel microbial resources capable of …

Genomic basis for natural product biosynthetic diversity in the actinomycetes

M Nett, H Ikeda, BS Moore - Natural product reports, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to mid-2009 The phylum Actinobacteria hosts diverse high G+ C, Gram-
positive bacteria that have evolved a complex chemical language of natural product …

Genomics-driven natural product discovery in actinomycetes

G Niu - Trends in biotechnology, 2018 - cell.com
The prevalence of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens has highlighted the urgent need for
new drugs. Actinomycetes have been the most prominent sources of natural products for …