Plasmid and chloramphenicol production inStreptomyces venezuelae

✍ Scribed by Vedpal S. Malik

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 198 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0141-5492
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00162355

✦ Synopsis

A strain of Streptomyces venezuelae described as having been 'cured' of chloramphenicol production, was mutagenised with ultraviolet light and chloramphenicol-producing clones were obtained from the surviving population. Since this suggests that the supposed cured strain has not lost the genetic capacity of chloramphenicol synthesis, alternative explanations are offered.