Lysis of cell walls ofMucor ramannianus möller by aStreptomyces sp.
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A study has been made of some chemical and ultrastructural changes that occur in the hyphal, arthrospore and sporangiospore walls ofMucor ramannianus during lysis by a soil streptomycete. Arthrospore and hyphal walls, which were shown to contain chitin, chitosan, other polysaccharides and phosphate (principally as polyphosphate), were lysed by culture fluid of the streptomycete after this organism had been grown on the same material. Alcohol-insoluble material found in the supernatants of the incubation mixtures gave on hydrolysis glucosamine, galactose, mannose and fucose. No laminarinase activity was detected in these culture fluids. Culture fluids of the streptomycete after growth on chitin and chitosan were also found to lyse the walls of arthrospores and hyphae. Despite the chemical similarities the walls were very different in thin section. A major component in the sporangiospore walls was glucan and an active laminarinase was shown to be present in the culture fluids of the streptomycete after growth on them. Further, ultrathin sections showed that an inner fibrillar layer of the sporangiospore wall was lysed leaving an outer electron-dense layer.
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