Agent J: Why the big secret? People are smart, they can handle it.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.
Streptomycetes are a part of a larger 'family' of bacteria - the Actinomycetes - and a group that is responsible for about 60% of the ~11,000 extant antibiotics. Erythromycin, neomycin, streptomycin, tetracycline - all are isolated from members of the Streptomyces genus.
In addition, while organisms are resistant to the deleterious effects of the chemicals they produce, the remain sensitive to other antibiotcs (i.e. bacteria that produce erythromycin are still tetracycline sensitive).
Check out the following page for more background info on S. coelicolor.
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I actually can't tell if this is a Poe or not.....oh, wait....did I just Poe myself? (And are recursive Poe's even redundant?)
whilst
Please stop using this word.
Shan't.
Obligatory Men in Black reference:
Agent J: Why the big secret? People are smart, they can handle it.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.
Streptomycetes are a part of a larger 'family' of bacteria - the Actinomycetes - and a group that is responsible for about 60% of the ~11,000 extant antibiotics. Erythromycin, neomycin, streptomycin, tetracycline - all are isolated from members of the Streptomyces genus.
In addition, while organisms are resistant to the deleterious effects of the chemicals they produce, the remain sensitive to other antibiotcs (i.e. bacteria that produce erythromycin are still tetracycline sensitive).
Check out the following page for more background info on S. coelicolor.