Actinobacteria: Special Biotechnological Interest

This review summarizes about the actinobacteria and their capability to produce bioactive secondary metabolites. Actinobacteria are of special biotechnological interest since they are known to produce chemically diverse compounds with a wide range of biological activity. This distinct clade of Gram-positve bacteria include some of the key antibiotic producers and are also sources of several bioactive compounds, established commercially. The class Actinobacteria holds some of the resilient species, capable of growing in extreme, hostile and polluted environments. The present review enlists the description, taxonomic and prolific metabolites from culturable. Keywords— Actinobacteria, Biological activity, Biotechnology, Metabolites, Taxonomy.