The Influence of Phosphorus on the Development of Streptomyces aureofaciens and on its Ability to Produce Chlortetracycline

Abstract

SUMMARY: Parallel physiological and cytological investigations of a chlortetra-cycline-producing culture—Streptomyces aureofaciens, strain 536—indicate some intracellular causes of the dependence of chlortetracycline biosynthesis upon the inorganic phosphorus content of the nutrient medium.