IMPROVEMENT OF KASUGAMYCIN-PRODUCING STRAIN BY AGAR PIECE METHOD AND PROTOTROPH METHOD
IMPROVEMENT OF KASUGAMYCIN-PRODUCING STRAIN BY AGAR PIECE METHOD AND PROTOTROPH METHOD
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DOI:
10.1007/bf02884210
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发表时间:
1971-01-01
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
OZAKI, A
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作者:
ICHIKAWA, T;DATE, M;OZAKI, A
The yield increase of an antibiotic in fermentation production has been achieved generally by mutation and selection of the producing strain. It can be said that success in obtaining the high-yield strain is dependent on the number of subcultures screened. It was reported that the frequency of mutation in streptomyces wi~ h or without mutagenic treatment is one per 105 to 107 (Mashima & Ikeda, 1958). But practically, 1,000 colonies per week is the largest number that can be tested by shaking culture, because of limitations of labor, space and equipment.When the study to improve the kasugamycin-producing strain was undertaken, it was necessary to provide a method permitting the quantitative comparison of a large number of colonies for productivity. Various agar media methods were tested. In one of the traditional methods, each colony growing on an agar medium in a Petri dish was cut out, immediately placed onto bioassay plate and the productivities were compared. It was found that this method could not be applied~ o the kasugamycin--producing strain, because if many colonies are grown on an agar medium in a Petri dish, kasugamycin produced by one colony rapidly diffuses all over the agar medium and the result does not