''Lentzea aerocolonigenes'' is a bacterium from the genus ''

Lentzea ''Lentzea'' is a Gram-positive, mesophilic and aerobic genus from the family Pseudonocardiaceae The Pseudonocardiaceae are a family of bacteria in the order Actinomycetales and the only member of the suborder Pseudonocardineae. Genomics Th ...

'' which has been isolated from soil in

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. ''Lentzea aerocolonigenes'' produces

rebeccamycin Rebeccamycin (NSC 655649) is a weak topoisomerase I inhibitor isolated from ''Nocardia sp.'' It is structurally similar to staurosporine, but does not show any inhibitory activity against protein kinases. It shows significant antitumor properties ...

References

Pseudonocardiales Bacteria described in 1986 {{Pseudonocardineae-stub