title: RETRACTED: Marine actinobacterial metabolites: current status and future perspectives.
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  This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor.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.
authors.affiliation: Marine Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry and Marine Bioprocess Research Center, Pukyong National University, Busan 608-737, South Korea.
authors.forename: Panchanathan
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Manivasagan
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Marine Bioprocess Research Center, Pukyong National University, Busan 608-737, South Korea.
authors.forename: Jayachandran
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Venkatesan
authors.affiliation: Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Sciences, Annamalai University, Parangipettai - 608 502, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: Kannan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sivakumar
authors.affiliation: 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.
authors.forename: Se-Kwon
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D039903:Actinobacteria / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D001685:Biological Factors / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000639:trends*; D055808:Drug Discovery / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D012623:Seawater / Q000382:microbiology*
chemical_list: D001685:Biological Factors