An Implication of Actinomycetes on Human Well-Being: A Review

Abstract

This review conceptualizes about the actinomycetes and its contribution to human health by playing a key role as bioactive secondary metabolites, such as enzymes, antibiotics and pigments, leading to their diverse applications and use in various industries. These searches have been uncommonly successful, and around 66% of naturally happening antibiotics, including many medically important, have been isolated from actinomycetes. The speedy occurrence of antimicrobial resistance among pathogens has led to a renewed interest to search for novel antimicrobial agents, but these antibiotics are not enough for the treatment of all diseases because there is a berserk requirement for a novel actinomycetes to combat against the antibiotic-resistant strains of pathogenic microorganisms, which are quickly expanding bit by bit. Actinomycetes are the important providers to the pharmaceutical and other industries and are well known for their capacity to produce secondary metabolites many of which are active against pathogenic microorganisms.

Variability of Soil Microorganism Numbers in Response to Exogenous Organic Matter and Water-Absorbing Substrate

“…As the second after bacteria, they transform complex carbon and nitrogen compounds in the soil (Gałązka and Kocoń 2015). They are isolated from the soil environment for pharmaceutical or agricultural industry purposes (Bawazir and Shantaram 2018). Interestingly, actinomycetes are used to produce natural antibiotics.…”