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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
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).
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.
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.