Streptoalloteichus

Streptoalloteichus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Actinobacteria
Class:	Actinobacteria
Order:	Actinomycetales
Family:	Pseudonocardiaceae
Genus:	Streptoalloteichus (ex Tomita et al. 1978) Tomita et al. 1987 emend. Tamura et al. 2008
Type species
S. hindustanus (ex Tomita et al. 1978) Tomita et al. 1987
Species
S. hindustanus S. tenebrarius

Streptoalloteichus is a genus of bacteria within the family Pseudonocardiaceae that contains two known species:

• S. hindustanus, which is known for the production of tallysomycin, an Antitumor antibiotic;^[1][2]
• S. tenebrarius, which is known for production of tobramycin, and which was previously classified as Streptomyces tenebrarius.^[3]

References

1. Tomita, K.; Nakakita, Y.; Hoshino, Y.; Numata, K.; Kawaguchi, H. (1 July 1987). "New Genus of the Actinomycetales: Streptoalloteichus hindustanus gen. nov., nom. rev.; sp. nov., nom. rev.". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 37 (3): 211–213. doi:10.1099/00207713-37-3-211.
2. Galm, Ute; Wendt-Pienkowski, Evelyn; Wang, Liyan; Huang, Sheng-Xiong; Unsin, Claudia; Tao, Meifeng; Coughlin, Jane M.; Shen, Ben (March 2011). "Comparative Analysis of the Biosynthetic Gene Clusters and Pathways for Three Structurally Related Antitumor Antibiotics: Bleomycin, Tallysomycin, and Zorbamycin". The Journal of Natural Products. 74 (3): 526–36. doi:10.1021/np1008152.
3. Tamura, T.; Ishida, Y.; Otoguro, M.; Hatano, K.; Suzuki, K.-i. (1 March 2008). "Classification of 'Streptomyces tenebrarius' Higgins and Kastner as Streptoalloteichus tenebrarius nom. rev., comb. nov., and emended description of the genus Streptoalloteichus". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 58 (3): 688–691. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.65272-0.

External links

• Streptoalloteichus J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature