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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789454003321

Titolo

Advances in biotechnology . Volume III Fermentation products : proceedings of the Sixth International Fermentation Symposium held in London, Canada, July 20-25, 1980 / / general editor, Murray Moo-Young ; edited by Claude Vezina and Kartar Singh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ontario, Canada : , : Pergamon Press, , 1981

©1981

ISBN

1-4831-4846-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (617 p.)

Collana

Advances in Biotechnology ; ; Volume III

Disciplina

660.28449

Soggetti

Fermentation

Industrial microbiology

Biochemical engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Fermentation Products; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; GUEST EDITORIAL PROBLEMS AND TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW ANTIBIOTICS AND OTHER USEFUL MICROBIAL PRODUCTS; Section I: New Aspects of Secondary Metabolites; CHAPTER 1. POSSIBLE FUNCTIONS OF THE PEPTIDE ANTIBIOTICS TYROCIDINE AND GRAMICIDIN DURING SPORULATION; ABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; INTRODUCTION; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS AND THE INDUCTION OF SPORULATION; THE ACTION OF TYROCIDINE IN VITRO; THE ACTION OF GRAMICIDIN IN VITRO; CONCLUDING REMARKS; REFERENCES

CHAPTER 2. THE ROLE OF SECONDARY METABOLISM IN PENICILLIUM BREVICOMPACTUMABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; INTRODUCTION; RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS OF EARLIER STUDIES; EXPERIMENTS TO EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITY THAT MYCOPHENOLIC ACID IS A PRODUCT OF AN AERIAL MYCELIUM; CURRENT THOUGHTS ABOUT THE ROLE OF MYCOPHENOLIC ACID IN P. BREVI COMPACTUM; THE SITUATION WITH BREVIANAMIDE A (VI); ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3. A STUDY OF SECONDARY GROWTH OF STREPTOMYCES GRISEORUBER; ABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; INTRODUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS;



RESULTS; REFERENCES

CHAPTER 4. ROLE OF PLASMID GENES IN AUREOTHRICIN PRODUCTIONABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; INTRODUCTION; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAY OF AUREOTHRICIN; PHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PLASMIDS; AUREOTHRICIN PRODUCTIVITY AND RELATED CHARACTERS OF MUTANTS (TABLE 1); GENERAL DISCUSSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5. FUNCTION OF PLASMIDS IN PRODUCERS OF MACROLIDES; ABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; INTRODUCTION; RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 6. UNSTABLE PLEIOTROPIC MUTATION IN STREPTOMYCES LAVENDULAE; ABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; INTRODUCTION; RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; REFERENCES

CHAPTER 7. LOCALIZATION OF ANTIMYCIN A AND MELANIN DETERMINANTS IN AUXOTROPHS OF Streptomyces sp. M-506 AND IN THEIR PROTOTROPHIC REVERTANTSABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; INTRODUCTION; RESULTS; DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 8. CHARACTERIZATION OF A PLASMID FROM BACILLUS BREVIS ATCC 9999; ABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; INTRODUCTION; ISOLATION OF CCC DNA; CHARACTERIZATION OF CCC DNA; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 9. GENETICS OF PENICILLIN PRODUCING ORGANISMS; ABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; INTRODUCTION; GENETICS AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF PENICILLIN PRODUCTION; MUTATION AND DNA REPAIR; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

REFERENCESCHAPTER 10. PENICILLIN PRODUCTION BY RECOMBINANT STRAINS.OF Pénicillium chrysogenum OBTAINED BY FUSION OF PROTOPLASTS; ABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; INTRODUCTION; MATERIALS AND METHODS; RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 11. FUSION OF PROTOPLASTS OF BACILLUS SPECIES; ABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; INTRODUCTION; MATERIALS AND METHODS; RESULTS; DISCUSSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 12. STUDIES ON THE NATURE OF VACUOLES IN PROTOPLASTS OF CLAVICEPS PURPUREA; ABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; INTRODUCTION; METHODS; RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; REFERENCES; Section II: Antibiotics

CHAPTER 13. CELL-FREE BIOSYNTHESIS OF MACROLIDES AND OTHER ""POLYKETIDE"" ANTIBIOTICS

Sommario/riassunto

Advances in Biotechnology, Volume III: Fermentation Products is the third of a series of three volumes and is based on the proceedings of the Sixth International Fermentation Symposium (IFS-6) held in London, Ontario, Canada, 20-25 July 1980. This volume contains 87 papers organized into nine sections. The papers under Section I deal with developments in the field of secondary metabolism (functions of secondary metabolites in the producing organisms; roles of plasmids in the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites; and protoplast fusion in industrial microorganisms). Sections II to VII examine t