Abstract
The ever-increasing broad spectrum of diseases and the urgent need to combat it has become a challenge, opening an exciting avenue in the field of biotechnology and biomedical research to produce a potent drug. Epiphytic Actinobacteria being a prolific producer of a thousand biologically active secondary metabolites play a significant role in the production of various antimicrobial, antiviral, anticancer, probiotics, and other industrially important compounds. Lichens as a symbiotic structure of alga and fungi known as the ecological niche of various kinds of microbes serve as an alternative source for the isolation of such novel Actinobacteria. The study focuses mainly on the collection, pretreatment, and isolation methods of Epiphytic Actinobacteria isolated from lichens, many of which have been successfully isolated and turned into useful drugs and other organic chemicals. With the increasing advancements in science and technology, there would be greater demand in the future for new bioactive compounds synthesized by Actinobacteria from various lichen sources.
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Banu, M.S.S., Nargis Begum, T., Vinothini, G., Dhanasekaran, D., Thajuddin, N. (2022). Isolation of Epiphytic Actinobacteria from Lichens. In: Dharumadurai, D. (eds) Methods in Actinobacteriology. Springer Protocols Handbooks. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1728-1_19
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