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    and the name of an important order of the phylum, Actinomycetales (the actinomycetes), reflects that they were long believed to be fungi. Some soil actinomycetota...
    21 KB (1,734 words) - 07:25, 13 July 2024
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    Waksman SA, Henrici AT (1943). "The Nomenclature and Classification of the Actinomycetes". J Bacteriol. 46 (4): 337–341. doi:10.1128/jb.46.4.337-341.1943....
    10 KB (604 words) - 18:18, 15 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Petrichor
    explanation for why petrichor is more common after light rains. Members of the Actinomycetes, gram-positive bacteria, are responsible for producing these aerosols...
    12 KB (1,256 words) - 14:35, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Whipple's disease
    neurological features are present in some cases. T. whipplei is one of the Actinomycetes, and is a distant relative of the Mycobacterium avium complex, explaining...
    16 KB (1,727 words) - 20:50, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Streptomyces antibioticus
    in size from 8 to 10 million basepairs. As with other members of the Actinomycetes, the S. antibioticus genome is known to have a high GC content (>55%)...
    12 KB (1,322 words) - 03:53, 29 January 2024
  • moiety from ferrioxamine B, an iron-bearing sideramine produced by the actinomycetes, Streptomyces pilosus. Its discovery was a serendipitous result of...
    18 KB (1,475 words) - 07:58, 24 June 2024
  • "Sphaerobacter thermophilus gen. nov., sp. nov. A deeply rooting member of the actinomycetes subdivision isolated from thermophilically treated sewage sludge"...
    22 KB (2,143 words) - 02:14, 9 January 2024
  • suspension as in bacteria. One of the most notable characteristics of the actinomycetes is their ability to produce antibiotics. Streptomycin, neomycin, erythromycin...
    22 KB (2,881 words) - 19:14, 2 July 2024
  • glutathione is replaced by other thiols, such as by mycothiol in the Actinomycetes, bacillithiol in some gram-positive bacteria, or by trypanothione...
    92 KB (10,076 words) - 09:17, 12 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rhodococcus fascians
    significant pathogen. R. fascians is an aerobic, pleiomorphic bacterium of the actinomycetes that is nonmotile and does not form spores. When grown on the surface...
    12 KB (1,392 words) - 16:16, 19 June 2023
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    antibiotics (with 70 to 80% of antibiotics in current use derived from the actinomycetes). In addition to screening natural products for direct antibacterial...
    155 KB (14,548 words) - 20:29, 21 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nickel superoxide dismutase
    including cyanobacteria and several Actinomycetes species. Some of the Actinomycetes species that express nickel containing superoxide dismutatses are...
    12 KB (1,436 words) - 20:46, 23 September 2023
  • color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph. Original b&w image used with permission of the Actinomycetes Society of Japan by S. Amano, S. Miyadoh & T. Shomura ....
    47 KB (5,076 words) - 07:31, 11 March 2024