Further studies on the role of phenylalanine in gramicidin S biosynthesis by Bacillus brevis |
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Authors: | J.-H. David Wu Linda Yang Arnold L. Demain |
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Affiliation: | Fermentation Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | In a chemically defined medium (F4/3) containing fructose, arginine, histidine and methionine, the addition of 0.1% l-phenylalanine to Bacillus brevis ATCC 9999 enhanced growth and gramicidin S (GS) production on both volumetric and specific bases; surprisingly, it decreased the specific activities of the two GS synthetases. Decreased specific activities were observed even when both soluble and particulate GS synthetases were assayed. The decreases were not caused by inhibition or repression by phenylalanine itself but, more probably, by a negative feedback effect of cellular GS on its own synthetases. High concentrations of GS were found to be associated with cells even before the presence of GS in the fermentation broth was detected. These cellular GS concentrations were much higher in fermentations conducted with phenylalanine. |
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Keywords: | phenylalanine gramicidin S biosynthesis antibiotic fermentation |
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