Isolation, Characterization, and Antibacterial Activity of Hard-to-Culture Actinobacteria from Cave Moonmilk Deposits

• Main Authors: Delphine Adam (Author), Marta Maciejewska (Author), Aymeric Naômé (Author), Loïc Martinet (Author), Wouter Coppieters (Author), Latifa Karim (Author), Denis Baurain (Author), Sébastien Rigali (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Cave moonmilk deposits host an abundant and diverse actinobacterial population that has a great potential for producing novel natural bioactive compounds. In our previous attempt to isolate culturable moonmilk-dwelling Actinobacteria, only Streptomyces species were recovered, whereas a metagenetic s...