Deep-sea actinomycetes: diversity and natural product discovery

Alan T Bull

doi:10.11490/isea.2005.0.266.0

International Symposium on Extremophiles and Their Applications 2005

DOI https://doi.org/10.11490/isea.2005.0.266.0

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Host: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

Co-host: Toyo University, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Biodiversity and New Environments II

Deep-sea actinomycetes:

diversity and natural product discovery

*Alan T Bull

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Keywords: actinomycetes, bioactives, biocatalysts, deep-sea, diversity, marine, metagenomics, screening, taxonomy

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Pages 266-274

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Abstract

Actinomycetes are present in great diversity over the complete range of ocean depths and represent increasing numbers of authentic indigenous marine microorganisms. The biotechnology resource provided by actinomycetes, particularly marine actinomycetes, is far from being exhausted and recent search and discovery programmes have revealed many new chemical entities, bioactive metabolites, and biocatalytic activities.

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