The discovery of penicillin by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928 provided us with access to a
new class of compounds useful at fighting bacterial infections: antibiotics. Ever since, a …

[Frontiers in Bioscience E4, 240-253, January 1, 2012] 240 Antibacterial agents from
Actinomycetes - A Review Girish Badrinath Page 1 [Frontiers in Bioscience E4, 240-253, January …

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 …

This review summarizes about the actinomycetes and their capability to produce bioactive
secondary metabolites, many of which have been successfully isolated and turned into …

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 …

New antimicrobial agents are desperately needed to combat the increasing number of
antibiotic resistant strains of pathogenic microorganisms. Natural products remain the most …

Novel secondary metabolites continue to be isolated from Actinomycetes. Their biological
activities and chemical structures show a wide range of diversity. This short review provides …

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 …

Microbial secondary metabolites continue to be a chemically diverse source for the
discovery and development of pharmaceutical agents and also biochemical probes to study …

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 …