Streptomyces achromogenes
| Streptomyces achromogenes | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Actinomycetota |
| Class: | Actinomycetia |
| Order: | Streptomycetales |
| Family: | Streptomycetaceae |
| Genus: | Streptomyces |
| Species: | S. achromogenes
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| Binomial name | |
| Streptomyces achromogenes Okami and Umezawa 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
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Streptomyces achromogenes is a species of
bacterium that belongs in the genus Streptomyces. S. achromogenes can be grown at 28 °C[1] in a medium of yeast and malt extract with glucose.[2]
Streptomyces achromogenes is the source of the restriction enzymes SacI and SacII,[3] as well as the antibiotic compound sarcidin.[4] A strain of the bacterium called S. achromogenes var. streptozoticus was the original source of the pancreatic cancer drug streptozotocin.[5]
References
- ^ Joachim M. Wink: Streptomyces achromogenes subsp. achromogenes
- PMID 3033630.
- PMID 13061372.
- PMID 12464347.
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