Spontaneous variability ofStreptomyces glomeratus, a producer of the anthracycline antibiotics beromycins

Abstract
Spontaneous variants of the beromycin-producing strainStreptomyces glomeratus 3980 were divided into five groups (A-E) according to increasing antibiotic activity. The most active variants (group E) differed from the other types and the wild strain by a suppressed ability to produce aerial mycelium and melanoid pigment and by an increased production of propionic acid. Strains with a 12-fold higher antibiotic production capacity (with respect to strain 3980) were obtained by selection of superior segregants from submerged cultures of the E type.

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