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Identification of a Lytic Microorganism Isolated from the Soil as a Strain of Streptomyces flavovirens
Author(s) -
GarcíLópez Ma Dolores,
Laborda F.,
Uruburu F.,
Villanueva Julio R.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
japanese journal of microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1348-0421
pISSN - 0021-5139
DOI - 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1973.tb00731.x
Subject(s) - humanities , library science , art , computer science
A number of organisms have been described which produce enzymes able to digest walls of a variety of yeasts and filamentous fungi [6, 8, 9, 11, 17]. As the majority of these microorganisms were isolated from soil samples, we have attempted to obtain lytic enzymes by searching for soil actinomycetes able to digest walls of fungal spores in order to produce protoplasts. We have isolated a new lytic organism from a soil sample collected at Norena (Asturias, Spain) using Salton's cell wall agar plate method [18]. The spectrum of the lytic activities shown by our microorganism differed considerably from those of previously described and consequently we have selected it for its lytic