Streptomyces bacteria are ubiquitous in soils and are well known for producing secondary
metabolites, including antimicrobials. Increasingly, they are being isolated from plant roots …

Bacterial secondary metabolites represent an invaluable source of bioactive molecules for
the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. Although screening campaigns for the …

Antarctic have been suggested as an attractive source for antibiotics discovery and
members of Streptomyces genus have historically been studied as natural producers of …

The formicamycins are promising antibiotics first identified in Streptomyces formicae KY5,
which produces the compounds at low levels. Here, we show that by understanding the …

The formicamycin biosynthetic gene cluster encodes two groups of type 2 polyketide
antibiotics: the formicamycins and their biosynthetic precursors the fasamycins, both of …

Background The cuticular microbiomes of Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants pose a conundrum
in microbiome biology because they are freely colonisable, and yet the prevalence of the …

Terpene synthases are widely distributed among microorganisms and have been mainly
studied in members of the genus Streptomyces. However, little is known about the …

Formicamycins and their biosynthetic intermediates the fasamycins are polyketide antibiotics
produced by Streptomyces formicae KY5 from a pathway encoded by the for biosynthetic …

The main function of symbiotic actinobacterias in fungus-farming ants (Formicidae:
Myrmicinae: Attini) is to protect the cultivated fungus against the pathogenic fungus …

Genome erosion is a frequently observed result of relaxed selection in insect nutritional
symbionts, but it has rarely been studied in defensive mutualisms. Solitary beewolf wasps …