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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
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).
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).
The grouping of the latter clade with Actinomycetes, the unification of the Deinococcales-Cyanobacteria-Actinomycetes clade with Gram-positive bacteria and the grouping of the two bacterial hyperthermophiles were not reproduced in the work of Brown and co-workers.