Streptomyces_achromogenes

<i>Streptomyces achromogenes</i>

Streptomyces achromogenes

Species of bacterium

Streptomyces achromogenes is a species of gram-positive 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]

Quick Facts Streptomyces achromogenes, Scientific classification ...

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

  1. [1]
    Joachim M. Wink: Streptomyces achromogenes subsp. achromogenes
  2. [2]
    DSMZ: 65. GYM STREPTOMYCES MEDIUM
  3. [3]
    Zhuravleva L, Oreshkin E, Bezborodov A (1987). "Isolation and purification of restriction endonuclease SacI from Streptomyces achromogenes ATCC 12767". Prikl Biokhim Mikrobiol. 23 (2): 208–15. PMID 3033630.
  4. [4]
    Takeuchi T, Nitta K, Umezawa H (1953). "On an antibiotic, sarcidin, produced by Streptomyces n. sp. S. achromogenes". J Antibiot (Tokyo). 6 (1): 31–2. PMID 13061372.
  5. [5]
    Bolzán A, Bianchi M (2002). "Genotoxicity of streptozotocin". Mutat Res. 512 (2–3): 121–34. doi:10.1016/S1383-5742(02)00044-3. PMID 12464347.


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