Uncoupling of respiration in turimycin fermentations.

Abstract

Results furnish evidence for a partial uncoupling of respiration at conditions of phosphate limitation in turimycin fermentations. The uncoupling was primarily caused by the high intracellular ATP hydrolase activity and probably also by the CN-resistant respiration. The results support the idea that high dephoshorylating enzyme activities may have a regulatory effect on the secondary product biosynthesis.