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Actinomycete antibiotics include such antibacterial compounds as tetracycline and erythromycin, antifungal agents like candicidin and amphotericin, anticancer drugs such as doxorubicin, and the antiparasitic avermectin (Walsh 2003).
While many different chemical classes are represented amongst actinomycete antibiotics, one class accounts for an extraordinary proportion of the important compounds, including all those mentioned above.
In addition, they are also seen in multiple copies in the cyanobacterium Anabaena, the actinomycete Streptomyces coelicolor, D. radiodurans and the euryarchaeon Methanosarcina acetivorans.
During the 1990s, the ability to manipulate actinomycete genes, developed over previous decades, mainly using the model species