Degeneration of a Streptomyces griseus Mutant on Repeated Transfer

Perlman, D.; Greenfield, R. B.; O'Brien, E.

doi:10.1128/aem.2.4.199-202.1954

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“…Culture degeneration is a major problem of streptomycin manufacture. Repeated transfer causes a progressive change in the population to a "nocardial" type of morphology, i.e., an increased tendency for mycelial fragmentation and loss of conidia formation (94,142). Such asporogenous cultures do not produce the antibiotic.…”

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Biochemistry and regulation of streptomycin and mannosidostreptomycinase (alpha-D-mannosidase) formation.

Demain¹,

Inamine²

1970

Bacteriological Reviews

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Biochemistry and regulation of streptomycin and mannosidostreptomycinase (alpha-D-mannosidase) formation.

Demain¹,

Inamine²

1970

Bacteriological Reviews

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“…The genetic instability of S. griwux HP is evident Iny the spontaneous segregation of derivatives with altered yhenot-pe occiirring with high frequency in batch and continuous ciiltrires. Tnstabilities concerning different properties in 8. griseus st,rains were observed frequent 1y (WILLIAMS and ,McCor 1953, PERLMAN 1954, FREEMAN and HoPwoOD 1978, I(IREY arid LEKIS 1981. The molecular reason(s) for these genetic processes remained unlinonm until now.…”

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Genetic segregation in a high‐yielding streptomycin‐producing strain of Streptomyces griseus

Roth

Schwalenberg

Reiche

et al. 1982

J of Basic Microbiology

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The streptomycin-producing Streptomyces griseus HP spontaneously segregated non-reverting derivatives with altered phenotypes. Clones characterized by increased spore formation and decreased streptomycin production were found. Two other types of derivatives were defective in aerial mycelium and streptomycin formation as well, but differed in the capacity to synthesize a yellow pigment. These derivatives were examined with respect to further properties.The stability of S. griseus HP was investigated in relation to conditions of continuous culture. Both a t 26 and 30 "C, under glycerol and NH,Cl limitation a rapid segregation and enrichment of streptomycin-non-producing derivatives occurred. At 34 "C and glycerol limitation segregation began only after about 35 generations of continuous culture. I n NH,CI-limited chemostats the original strain was stable during 80 generations. I n the course of the continuous culture experiments it was shown that the onset of genetic segregation within mycelia can be detected before it becomes obvious in colonies grown from the mycelia. This was achieved by fractionation of the mycelia by protoplast formation and subsequent plating on regeneration medium allowing colony growth and differentiation.The frequent degeneration of high-yielding Streptomyces strains used in coniinercial antibiotic fermentations is a well-known phenomenon (for review see REUSSER 1963).However, the molecular meLhanisms causing the genetic instability or variability, respectively, of streptomycetes are not fully understood. Loss of plasniids in cases of extrachromosomally determined antibiotic production may be one reason for strain degeneration (HOPWOOD 1978).In order to avoid serious problems in industrial fermentations it is necessary to circumvent culture degeneration. Continuous selection of the respective phenotypes and storage of the strains in a viable but non-reproducing state, e. g. in lyophilized preserves, are usual methods for this purpose (REUSSER 1963). In spite of these measures strain degeneration can nevertheless occur in the course of long-term fernient at ion processes. The original strain can be overgrown by a few faster growing non-productive segregants which appear spontaneously.Therefore it would be useful to know culture conditions promoting or inhibiting strain degeneration. In this connection the properties of degenerated variants or mutants play an important role. Furthermore it would be favourable to have a method to detect the beginning of genetic segregation or degeneration in industrial Streptomyces strains, e . g. during preparation of biomass for lyophilization and in preserves used as inocula for fermentations. In our investigations concerning these probleins we used a high-yielding streptomycin-producing Streptomyces griseus strain. Both the frequency of spontaneous appearance of non-producers in agar slant cultures and the strain stability during culture in chemostats under different conditions, as described recently (ROTH and NOACK 1982), were examined. Derivatives of th...

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“…4 and described in previous publications from these laboratories (Perlman and Wagman, 1952;Perlman et al, 1954). Strains b and c were selected for ability to produce streptomycin when grown in media containing soybean meal and glucose, while strain d was a mutant selected for study as it did not produce any detectable antibiotic activity (Perlman et al, 1954). The streptomycetes used in these experiments were grown in submerged culture on a soybean meal-glucose medium until fragmentation of the mycelium had occurred.…”

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UTILIZATION OF CARBOHYDRATES BY STRAINS OF STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS

Perlman¹,

O'Brien²

1956

J Bacteriol

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Degeneration of a Streptomyces griseus Mutant on Repeated Transfer

Abstract: An important consideration in industrial fermentation operations is the effect of method of preparation of inoculum on subsequent fermentation performance.

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Biochemistry and regulation of streptomycin and mannosidostreptomycinase (alpha-D-mannosidase) formation.

Biochemistry and regulation of streptomycin and mannosidostreptomycinase (alpha-D-mannosidase) formation.

Genetic segregation in a high‐yielding streptomycin‐producing strain of Streptomyces griseus

UTILIZATION OF CARBOHYDRATES BY STRAINS OF STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS

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