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Streptomyces achromogenes

Streptomyces achromogenes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinobacteria
Order: Actinomycetales
Family: Streptomycetaceae
Genus: Streptomyces
Species: S. achromogenes
Binomial name
Streptomyces achromogenes
Okami and Umezawa 1953

Streptomyces achromogenes is a species of gram-positive bacterium that belongs in the genus Streptomyces. S. achromogenes can be grown at 28 °C in a medium of yeast and malt extract with glucose.

S. achromogenes is the source of the restriction enzymes SacI and SacII, as well as the antibiotic compound sarcidin. A strain of the bacterium called S. achromogenes var. streptozoticus was the original source of the pancreatic cancer drug .



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