Actinoplanes

Actinoplanes
Actinoplanes utahensis on agar plate
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetes
Order: Micromonosporales
Family: Micromonosporaceae
Genus:
Couch 1950 (Approved Lists 1980)
Type species
Actinoplanes philippinensis
Couch 1950 (Approved Lists 1980)
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Ampullariella Couch 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)
  • "Ampullaria" Couch 1963
  • Amorphosporangium Couch 1963 (Approved Lists 1980)

Actinoplanes is a genus in the family Micromonosporaceae.[1] They have aerial mycelia and spherical, motile spores. Actinoplanes species produce the pharmaceutically important compounds valienamine (a precursor to the antidiabetic drug acarbose[2] and to the antibiotic validamycin), teicoplanin, and ramoplanin.

  1. ^ Euzéby, J. P. "Genus Actinoplanes". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature. www.bacterio.cict.fr. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  2. ^ Laube, Heiner (March 2002). "Acarbose An Update of Its Therapeutic Use in Diabetes Treatment". Clinical Drug Investigation. 22 (3): 141–156. doi:10.2165/00044011-200222030-00001.
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