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	Actinomycetes -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Actinomycetales, commonly referred to as Actinomycetes, is an order of bacteria in the class Actinobacteria.
		Actinomycetes are unsurpassed in their ability to produce many compounds that have pharmaceutically useful properties.
		In 1940 Selman Waksman discovered that the soil bacteria he was studying made actinomycin, a discovery which granted him a Nobel Prize.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ac/actinomycetes.htm (122 words)

	Role of Antibiotics in Coffee Plantation Ecology (INeedCoffee.com)
		A variety of coffee soil inhabitants like actinomycetes, bacteria and fungi are capable of synthesizing antibiotics.
		Actinomycetes are particularly active in this regard, and streptomycin, cycloheximide, chloramphenicol, and chlortetracycline are but a few of the important chemotherapeutic substances synthesized by microorganisms.
		The Role of Actinomycetes in Coffee Plantation Ecology
	www.ineedcoffee.com /05/antibiotics (2819 words)

	Publications
		Suzuki, K., Suzuki, M., Sasaki, J., Park, Y.-H., and Komagata, K. Leifsonia gen. nov., a genus for 2,4-diaminobutyric acid-containing actinomycetes to accommodate "Corynebacterium aquaticum" Leifson 1962 and Clavibacter xyli subsp.
		Sasaki, J., Chijimatsu, M., and Suzuki, K. Taxonomic significance of 2,4-diaminobutyric acid isomers in the cell wall peptidoglycan of actinomycetes and reclassification of Clavibacter toxicus as Rathayibacter toxicus comb.
		nov., an obligately psychrophilic actinomycete to accommodate "Curtobacterium psychrophilum" Inoue and Komagata 1976.
	www.jcm.riken.jp /JCM/publish.html (9146 words)

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