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 …

Research into alternative renewable energy generation is a priority, due to the ever-
increasing concern of climate change. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are one potential avenue …

All plants are inhabited internally by diverse microbial communities comprising bacterial,
archaeal, fungal, and protistic taxa. These microorganisms showing endophytic lifestyles …

Covering: 2006 to 2016 The computational mining of genomes has become an important
part in the discovery of novel natural products as drug leads. Thousands of bacterial …

Assembly-line polyketide synthases (PKSs) are among the most complex protein
machineries known in nature, responsible for the biosynthesis of numerous compounds …

Bacterial genomes encode the biosynthetic potential to produce hundreds of thousands of
complex molecules with diverse applications, from medicine to agriculture and materials …

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 …

Pharmaceutically important polyketides such as avermectin are mainly produced as
secondary metabolites during the stationary phase of growth of Streptomyces species in …

Covering: 2000 to 2018 The antimicrobial activity of many of their natural products has
brought prominence to the Streptomycetaceae, a family of Gram-positive bacteria that …

Abstract About 2,500 papers dated 2014–2016 were recovered by searching the PubMed
database for Streptomyces, which are the richest known source of antibiotics. This review …