Abstract
Spore germination in streptomycetes was shown to be stimulated by exogenously added A-factor. Agar medium either containing or not containing A-factor was inoculated with spore suspensions of three strains differing in their ability to produce regulators of the A-factor group: Streptomyces griseus 773, which produces A-factor and two its lower homologs; S. coelicolor A3(2), which forms six Acl-factors (A-factor analogues); and S. avermitilis JCM5070, which fails to form regulators of this group. A count of the grown colonies showed that exogenous A-factor stimulated spore germination in strains that were themselves able to synthesize regulators of the A-factor group. In S. griseus 773, the number of germinated spores increased by 67% on average after the addition of A-factor to the medium in an amount of 10 μg/ml. In strain S. coelicolor A3 (2), the number of germinated spores increased by 75% after the addition of 1 μg/ml of A-factor. During germination of the S. avermitilis JCM5070 spores, no changes in the CFU number was observed after the addition of A-factor.
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