RETRACTED: Marine actinobacterial metabolites: current status and future perspectives

Panchanathan Manivasagan; Jayachandran Venkatesan; Kannan Sivakumar; Se-Kwon Kim

doi:10.1016/j.micres.2013.02.002

RETRACTED: Marine actinobacterial metabolites: current status and future perspectives

Microbiol Res. 2013 Jul 19;168(6):311-332. doi: 10.1016/j.micres.2013.02.002. Epub 2013 Mar 6.

Authors

Panchanathan Manivasagan¹, Jayachandran Venkatesan², Kannan Sivakumar³, Se-Kwon Kim⁴

Affiliations

¹ Marine Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry and Marine Bioprocess Research Center, Pukyong National University, Busan 608-737, South Korea.
² Department of Chemistry and Marine Bioprocess Research Center, Pukyong National University, Busan 608-737, South Korea.
³ Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Sciences, Annamalai University, Parangipettai - 608 502, Tamil Nadu, India.
⁴ Marine Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry and Marine Bioprocess Research Center, Pukyong National University, Busan 608-737, South Korea; Department of Chemistry and Marine Bioprocess Research Center, Pukyong National University, Busan 608-737, South Korea. Electronic address: sknkim@pknu.ac.kr.

PMID: 23480961
DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2013.02.002

Abstract

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor. Authors and Editor agreed to retract this article because substantial parts of the text were copied from the following sources without proper attribution: Lam, K.S. (2006), Discovery of novel metabolites from marine actinomycetes. Current Opinion in Microbiology 9(3), pp. 245–251; Subramani, R., Aalbersberg, W. (2012), Marine actinomycetes: An ongoing source of novel bioactive metabolites. Microbiological Research 167(10), pp. 571–580; Dharmaraj, S. (2010), Marine Streptomyces as a novel source of bioactive substances. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 26(12), pp. 2123–2139. The authors apologize for this oversight and any inconvenience caused.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review
Retracted Publication

MeSH terms

Actinobacteria / chemistry*
Actinobacteria / isolation & purification
Actinobacteria / metabolism*
Biological Factors / chemistry
Biological Factors / metabolism*
Biotechnology / trends*
Drug Discovery / trends*
Humans
Seawater / microbiology*

Substances

Biological Factors