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A notable exception is the traditional unification of Actinomycetes, or High G+C gram-positive bacteria (represented here by Mycobacterium ), with low G+C Gram-positive bacteria (the Bacillus-Clostridium group) under Firmicutes (Gram-positive bacteria).
148 is present in the actinomycetes and the Gram-positive bacterium Clostridium acetobutylicum . It shows a lineage-specific expansion in the former taxon, with 11 and 3 closely related, paralogous forms in the genomes of Streptomyces and Mycobacterium tuberculosis , respectively.
Similarly, fungi contain several enzymes involved in secondary metabolite biosynthesis, such as IPNS and DAOCS, that are distinctly related to their counterparts in actinomycetes.
The other small group, typified by the Bacillus subtilis protein YrrD, has so far been found only in the actinomycetes, Gram-positive bacteria and D. radiodurans (Figures 3, 4).
While a fungus makes penicillin, semisynthetic derivatives of which have been a mainstay of antibacterial therapy for decades, most natural antibacterial antibiotics come from a group of soil-dwelling, filamentous bacteria called the actinomycetes, of which