The new microorganism of this invention, which produces antibiotic A82810, is called culture A82810 for convenience. Culture A82810 is a natural variant derived from a parent strain (culture A82810) which was isolated from a soil sample from Togo, West Africa. A culture of the A82810-produc...
When grown on a medium with lactate and a high ratio of nitrogen and carbon, B. licheniformis strain N.C.T.C. 7072 produces licheniformins; when grown on a medium with glucose and a low nitrogen/carbon ratio, this strain produces bacitracins [37]. Several substances synthesized by B. ...