BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Proteases are a group of enzymes that catalyze the degradation of proteins resulting in the production of their amino acid constituents. They are the most important group of industrial enzymes which account for about 60% of total enzymes in the market and produced mainly by microorganisms. The attempts were made to study the kinetic parameters of protease produced by S...

background and objectives: proteases are a group of enzymes that catalyze the degradation of proteins resulting in the pro- duction of their amino acid constituents. they are the most important group of industrial enzymes which account for about 60% of total enzymes in the market and produced mainly by microorganisms. the attempts were made to study the kinetic parameters of protease produced b...

By chemical screening methods we detected in the mycelium of Streptomyces griseoflavus (strain Tii 2880) the colabomycin-complex2) and a second compound, called 2880-ll (Rf values see Table 1). 2880-ll absorbed UV light on Silica gel F254, and turned black with molybdatophosphoric acid and dark brown with vanillinsulfuric acid. It could be separated from the crude extracts by silica gel chromat...

Microbe-mediated soil uptake is the largest and most uncertain variable in the budget of atmospheric hydrogen (H2 ). The diversity and ecophysiological role of soil microorganisms that can consume low atmospheric abundances of H2 with high-affinity [NiFe]-hydrogenases is unknown. We expanded the library of atmospheric H2 -consuming strains to include four soil Harvard Forest Isolate (HFI) Strep...

Four new aza-analogues of hormaomycin 1, a secondary metabolite with interesting biological activities produced by Streptomyces griseoflavus, were synthesized and subjected to preliminary tests of their antibiotic activity to provide new insights into the structure-activity relationship studies of this class of compounds. The solution structures of hormaomycin 1 and its aza-analogue 2 a were de...

An arginine auxotrophic mutant was obtained from Streptomyces griseoflavus (bicozamycin-producing strain). The mutant grew on synthetic agar supplemented with either arginine, ornithine, citrulline or argininosuccinate, but produced massive aerial mycelium and bicozamycin only with citrulline. In liquid culture, citrulline also completely restored the ability of the mutant to produce bicozamyci...