Relation of anabolic-catabolic glucose utilization in growth-limited cultures of Streptomyces griseus.

Phenotypically different submerged mycelium conserves had been produced from a spore conserve of the HP-strain Streptomyces griseus and proofed in a product formation culture as a test system. The phenotypical characters induced on the base of the genotype proved in a cultivation cycle during 30-34 reduplications of the biomass constant. Employing the HP phenotype we investigated the possibility of economizing the substrate turnover by utilizing the anabolic potential for the synthesis of secondary substances and/or reducing the conservation catabolism during the stationary growth stage. As criteria for that served the stoichiometric turnover equation of the streptomycin biosynthesis and the quotient qO2/qGluc taking at full substrate oxidation the numerical value 6. During the stationary growth stage the relation of maintenance anabolism to maintenance catabolism in addition to the formation as secondary substances is not fixed in the tested HP phenotypes, but in a striking manner variable. The relation of by-product synthesis to secondary metabolism synthesis, too, is variable in the stationary growth stage with constant maintenance catabolism. Due to those response reactions on phenotypical manipulations an economization of the substrate turnover during the product formation stage with stationary growth is not possible in the streptomycin producer Streptomyces griseus.