''Streptomyces netropsis'' is a bacterium species from the genus of ''
Streptomyces
''Streptomyces'' is the largest genus of Actinomycetota and the type genus of the family Streptomycetaceae. Over 500 species of ''Streptomyces'' bacteria have been described. As with the other Actinomycetota, streptomycetes are gram-positive, ...
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[ ''Streptomyces netropsis'' produces the antibiotics ]netropsin
Netropsin (also termed congocidine or sinanomycin) is a polyamide with antibiotic and antiviral activity. Netropsin was discovered by Finlay ''et al.'', and first isolated from the actinobacterium '' Streptomyces netropsis''. It belongs to the cla ...
and distamycin A
Distamycin is a polyamide-antibiotic, which acts as a minor groove binder, binding to the small furrow of the double helix.
Properties
Distamycin is a pyrrole- amidine antibiotic and analogous to netropsin and the class of lexitropsins. As ...
and the antifungal polyene
In organic chemistry, polyenes are poly- unsaturated, organic compounds that contain at least three alternating double () and single () carbon–carbon bonds. These carbon–carbon double bonds interact in a process known as conjugation, result ...
mycoheptin.
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See also
* List of Streptomyces species
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Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
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References
External links
Type strain of ''Streptomyces netropsis'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
netropsis
Bacteria described in 1991