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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1981
Filed:
Feb. 21, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Katsumi Nakamura, Takasaki, JP;
Kumpei Kitamura, Takasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435118 ; 435881 ;
Abstract
Prodigiosin, an antibiotic, is effectively produced by culturing a novel Serratia marcescens R-2 strain. A synthetic culture medium is also provided, which contains a higher fatty acid having 12 to 18 carbon atoms, a salt thereof or an ester thereof as the sole or main source of carbon and in which a strain of Serratia marcescens having the abilities to assimilate the source of carbon and to produce prodigiosin can be cultivated to obtain prodigiosin.