Streptomycetaceae is a

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of the

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Streptomycetales. It includes the important genus ''

Streptomyces ''Streptomyces'', from στρεπτός (''streptós''), meaning "twisted", and μύκης (''múkés''), meaning "fungus", is the largest genus of Actinomycetota, and the type genus of the family Streptomycetaceae. Over 700 species of ''St ...

''. This was the original source of many

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, namely

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, the first antibiotic against

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Genomics

Sequence alignments of

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l genomes have led to the identification of three

conserved signature indels Conserved signature inserts and deletions (CSIs) in protein sequences provide an important category of molecular markers for understanding phylogenetic relationships. CSIs, brought about by rare genetic changes, provide useful phylogenetic markers ...

which are unique to the order Streptomycetales. The enzyme PBGD contains a four-amino-acid insertion which is present in all ''Streptomyces'' species and ''Kitasatospora setae'', but not any other Actinomycetota. Similarly, a one- amino-acid insertion is present in a conserved region of

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and is found in all ''Streptomyces'' species and '' K. setae'', but is not found in any other Actinomycetota. Five conserved signature proteins have also been identified which are present in various sequenced ''Streptomyces'' species, but not in ''K. setae''; however, as the complete genome of ''K. setae'' has not yet been sequenced, these proteins may be present in ''K. setae''. Additionally, 11 conserved signature proteins have been identified which are found in all sequenced ''Streptomyces'' species and ''K. setae''. These proteins are believed to be unique to the Streptomycetales order, thus provide

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which can be used to distinguish this group from the rest of the Actinomycetota. Phylogenetic trees indicate that the order Catenulisporales is closely related to the order Streptomycetales. This inference is supported by a one-amino-acid conserved signature indel which is uniquely found in all Streptomycetales species and ''Catenulisporales acidiphilia'', the only Catenulisporales species whose complete genome has been sequenced. Additionally, three conserved signature proteins have been identified which are found in all Streptomycetales species and ''C. acidiphilia''. Both the conserved signature indel and the conserved signature proteins provide evidence that the orders Streptomycetales and Catenulisporales are closely related.

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the

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(LPSN) and

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(NCBI).

Notes

Unassigned genera: * "'' Marinispora''" Kwon ''et al''. 2006 * "'' Parastreptomyces''" Nichols ''et al''. 2005 * "'' Streptodolium''" Kalkreuter et al. 2024 * "'' Trichotomospora''" Lian, Liu & Zhang 1985 * "'' Uniformispora''" Kalkreuter et al. 2024

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Genomics

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