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The discovery of bioactive molecules originating from microorganisms has been the greatest medical advancement in history. Over 70% of all antibiotics in clinical use are derived from natural products produced by the bacterial group of actinomycetes (Bérdy, 2012; Newman & Cragg, 2012). Paul Ehrlich introduced the first antibiotic in 1910, an arsenic-based synthetic drug called “salvarsan” to treat syphilis (Hutchings et al., 2019).
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Rössler, O. (2024). Introduction. In: SARP-Driven Activation of Antibiotic Biosynthetic Gene Clusters in Actinomycetes. BestMasters. Springer Spektrum, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44552-2_1
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