- Streptomyces achromogenes
Taxobox
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name = "Streptomyces achromogenes"
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regnum = Bacteria
phylum =Actinobacteria
ordo =Actinomycetales
familia =Streptomycetaceae
genus = "Streptomyces"
species = "S. achromogenes"
binomial = "Streptomyces achromogenes"
binomial_authority = "Okami and Umezawa 1953"Streptomyces achromogenes" is a species of
gram-positive bacterium that belongs in thegenus "Streptomyces ". "S. achromogenes" can be grown at 26°C in a medium ofyeast andmalt extract withglucose Fact|date=June 2007."S. achromogenes" is the source of the
restriction enzyme s "SacI" and "SacII",cite journal |author=Zhuravleva L, Oreshkin E, Bezborodov A |title=Isolation and purification of restriction endonuclease SacI from Streptomyces achromogenes ATCC 12767 |journal=Prikl Biokhim Mikrobiol |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=208–15 |year= 1987|pmid=3033630] as well as the antibiotic compound "sarcidin".cite journal |author=Takeuchi T, Nitta K, Umezawa H |title=On an antibiotic, sarcidin, produced by Streptomyces n. sp. S. achromogenes |journal=J Antibiot (Tokyo) |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=31–2 |year=1953 |pmid=13061372] A strain of the bacterium called "S. achromogenes" var. "streptozoticus" was the original source of the pancreatic cancer drugstreptozotocin .cite journal |author=Bolzán A, Bianchi M |title=Genotoxicity of streptozotocin |journal=Mutat Res |volume=512 |issue=2-3 |pages=121–34 |year=2002 |pmid=12464347 |doi=10.1016/S1383-5742(02)00044-3]References
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