• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.89-94
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• 1987

The optimal conditions for the protoplast formation and regeneration of Streptomyces mitakaensis have been investigated. S. mitakaensis cells were converted to protoplast by treating with 0.1 mg/$m\ell$ of lysozyme in phosphate-tris buffer (pH 7.2) to the cells grown at the late logarithmic growth phase in the GBYN medium (gycerol 20g, beef extract 5g, yeast extract 5g, NaCl 5g in 1 liter of distilled water) contained 0.5% glycine. Cell regeneration from protoplast was accomplished in 10 days post inoculation on the R2 regeneration agar medium and at 3 days post inoculation on the H2 regeneration liquid medium. The efficiency of the regeneration was 0.l% in 3 days at 35$^{\circ}C$.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.95-97
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• 1987

The protoplast formation of Streptomyces mitakaensis was monitored with scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. The normal cells formed regular mycelium and spore, and their cell wall and cell membrane appeared to be normal, but the cell wall of the lysozyme treated cells (1 mg/$m\ell$) was damaged, which was finally disappeared from cells to become protoplast in 30 to 60 minutes.