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Streptomyces rimosus

species of bacterium

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ7623395 ↗
Source-derived summary

Streptomyces rimosus is a bacterium species in the genus Streptomyces.

It was isolated from a soil sample in 1950 by A. C. Finlay et al., who isolated terramycin (earth fungus), later called oxytetracycline, from it.

Uses

The antibiotics oxytetracycline and tetracycline are produced in cultures of S. rimosus. Paromomycin has also been isolated from cultures of S. rimosus.

Polyketide synthesis

Streptomyces rimosus's oxytetracycline polyketide synthase acyl carrier protein differs from most ACPs by having a C-terminus extension.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Streptomyces rimosus” is species of bacterium. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Streptomyces, rimosus and species, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1950—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Streptomyces, rimosus and species is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “species of bacterium” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7623395. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1950.

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This entry incorporates text from “Streptomyces rimosus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.