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Abstract

There is a real consensus that new antibiotics are urgently needed and are the best chance for combating antibiotic resistance. The phylum Actinobacteria is one of the main producers of new antibiotics, with a recent paradigm shift whereby rare actinomycetes have been increasingly targeted as a source of new secondary metabolites for the discovery of new antibiotics. However, this review shows that the genus Streptomyces is still the largest current producer of new and innovative secondary metabolites. Between January 2015 and December 2020, a significantly high number of novel Streptomyces spp. have been isolated from different environments, including extreme environments, symbionts, terrestrial soils, sediments and also from marine environments, mainly from marine invertebrates and marine sediments. This review highlights 135 new species of Streptomyces during this 6-year period with 108 new species of Streptomyces from the terrestrial environment and 27 new species from marine sources. A brief summary of the different pre-treatment methods used for the successful isolation of some of the new species of Streptomyces is also discussed, as well as the biological activities of the isolated secondary metabolites. A total of 279 new secondary metabolites have been recorded from 121 species of Streptomyces which exhibit diverse biological activity. The greatest number of new secondary metabolites originated from the terrestrial-sourced Streptomyces spp.

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Title
Streptomyces: Still the Biggest Producer of New Natural Secondary Metabolites, a Current Perspective
Author
Lavinia Donald 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Pipite, Atanas 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Subramani, Ramesh 1 ; Owen, Jeremy 2 ; Keyzers, Robert A 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Taufa, Taitusi 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Ocean and Natural Sciences (SAGEONS), The University of the South Pacific, Laucala Campus, Private Mail Bag, Suva, Fiji; [email protected] (L.D.); [email protected] (R.S.); [email protected] (T.T.) 
 School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6012, New Zealand; [email protected]; Centre for Biodiscovery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6012, New Zealand; [email protected]; Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, Auckland 92019, New Zealand 
 Centre for Biodiscovery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6012, New Zealand; [email protected]; Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, Auckland 92019, New Zealand; School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6012, New Zealand 
First page
418
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
MDPI AG
ISSN
20367481
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2716571522
Copyright
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.