New glycosylated polyene macrolides: Refining the ore from genome mining

P Caffrey, M Hogan, Y Song - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Glycosylated polyene macrolides include effective antifungal agents, such as pimaricin,
nystatin, candicidin, and amphotericin B. For the treatment of systemic mycoses …

Mechanistic analysis of the biosynthesis of the aspartimidylated graspetide Amycolimiditide

B Choi, HE Elashal, L Cao, AJ Link - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Several classes of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides
(RiPPs) are composed of multiple macrocycles. The enzymes that assemble these …

New features of desiccation tolerance in the lichen photobiont Trebouxia gelatinosa are revealed by a transcriptomic approach

FC Carniel, M Gerdol, A Montagner, E Banchi… - Plant Molecular …, 2016 - Springer
Trebouxia is the most common lichen-forming genus of aero-terrestrial green algae and all
its species are desiccation tolerant (DT). The molecular bases of this remarkable adaptation …

Discovery and Biosynthesis of Cihanmycins Reveal Cytochrome P450-Catalyzed Intramolecular C–O Phenol Coupling Reactions

C Fang, L Zhang, Y Wang, W Xiong, Z Yan… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Cinnamoyl-containing nonribosomal peptides (CCNPs) constitute a unique family of natural
products. The enzyme mechanism for the biaryl phenol coupling reaction of the bicyclic …

Amycolatopsis aidingensis sp. nov., a Halotolerant Actinobacterium, Produces New Secondary Metabolites

R Li, M Wang, Z Ren, Y Ji, M Yin, H Zhou… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
A novel actinobacterium, strain YIM 96748T, was isolated from a saline soil sample collected
from the south bank of Aiding Lake in Xinjiang Province, Northwest China. Phylogenetic …

Biotechnological exploitation of Actinobacterial members

J Hamedi, F Mohammadipanah… - Halophiles: Biodiversity …, 2015 - Springer
Microbial-derived products, while do not have many environmental side effects of their
synthetic counterparts, have proved more efficient than those synthetically obtained. The …

Discovery of efrotomycin congeners and heterologous expression-based insights into the self-resistance mechanism

C Fang, Q Zhang, W Zhang, C Zhang… - Journal of Natural …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Four new efrotomycins, A1–A4 (1–4), were isolated from the salt mine-derived
Amycolatopsis cihanbeyliensis DSM 45679 and structurally determined. Efrotomycins A3 (3) …

Amycolatopsis mongoliensis sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium with antifungal activity isolated from a coal mining site in Mongolia

B Oyuntsetseg, HB Lee, SB Kim - International Journal of …, 2024 - microbiologyresearch.org
A novel filamentous actinobacterium designated strain 4-36T showing broad-spectrum
antifungal activity was isolated from a coal mining site in Mongolia, and its taxonomic …

Amycolatopsis dendrobii sp. nov., an endophytic actinomycete isolated from Dendrobium heterocarpum Lindl.

N Tedsree, S Tanasupawat… - … of Systematic and …, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
Three novel actinomycete strains, designated as DR6-1T, DR6-2 and DR6-4, isolated from
the roots of Dendrobium heterocarpum Lindl in Thailand were studied using a polyphasic …

Diversity of Actinobacteria in Various Habitats

MP Narsing Rao, WJ Li - Actinobacteria: Microbiology to Synthetic Biology, 2022 - Springer
Actinobacteria are ubiquitous, diverse, and one of the biggest lineages in the domain
Bacteria. Their existence has been documented in a variety of habitats, including terrestrial …