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A study of 28 nocardia-like, asporogenous, and oligosporous spontaneous morphological variants belonging to 23 species of streptomycetes revealed five strains producing regulators of the A-factor group. Streptomyces griseus 1439, which forms aerial mycelium and spores only in the presence of exogenous A-factor, was used as the test strain. Among the 28 spontaneous variants, three new A-factor-dependent strains were revealed, which represented the species Streptomyces griseus, “S. citreofluorescens,” and “S. viridovulgaris subsp. albomarinus.” These weakly differentiated variants did not produce A-factor and behaved as its recipients, responding by changes in their morphological characteristics at a concentration of this regulator in the medium of 0.01 μg/ml or higher. The original collection strains in whose populations the variants were selected produced substances of the A-factor group. The A-factor-dependent variants differed in the level of the regulator required for maximal expression of the morphological characteristics: it was necessary to introduce the A-factor at a concentration of 1 μg/ml for “S. citreofluorescens” and “S. viridovulgaris subsp. albomarinus” and at 10 μg/ml for S. griseus.
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Efremenkova, O.V., Gruzina, V.D., Sumarukova, I.G. et al. Search for A-factor-Dependent Variants in Actinomycete Populations. Microbiology 72, 678–681 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:MICI.0000008368.76532.1f
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