A wide variety of enzymatic pathways that produce specialized metabolites in bacteria, fungi
and plants are known to be encoded in biosynthetic gene clusters. Information about these …

Streptomyces bacteria are ubiquitous in soil, conferring the characteristic earthy smell, and
they have an important ecological role in the turnover of organic material. More recently, a …

Background Attine ants live in an intensely studied tripartite mutualism with the fungus
Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, which provides food to the ants, and with antibiotic-producing …

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 inhabit both …

Attine ants are dependent on a cultivated fungus for food and use antibiotics produced by
symbiotic Actinobacteria as weedkillers in their fungus gardens. Actinobacterial species …

Streptomyces species are best known for their ability to produce a wide array of medically
and agriculturally important secondary metabolites. However, there is a growing number of …

We report a new Streptomyces species named S. formicae that was isolated from the African
fungus-growing plant-ant Tetraponera penzigi and show that it produces novel pentacyclic …

Plant-pathogenic Streptomyces spp. cause scab disease on economically important root and
tuber crops, the most important of which is potato. Key virulence determinants produced by …

Streptomyces spp. are robust producers of medicinally-, industrially- and agriculturally-important
small molecules. Increased resistance to antibacterial agents and the lack of new …

Microbial natural products, particularly those produced by filamentous Actinobacteria, underpin
the majority of clinically used antibiotics. Unfortunately, only a few new antibiotic classes …