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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 1991
Filed:
May. 29, 1986
Guido M Miescher, Terre Haute, IN (US);
International Minerals & Chemical Corp., Northbrook, IL (US);
Abstract
High titers of polyether antibiotics are obtained in a fermentation broth by inoculating a nutrient fermentation broth with a microorganism capable of producing a polyether antibiotic. Growth of the microorganism is established in the broth by incubating the inoculated broth at a physiologically acceptable temperature until pH of the broth begins to rise upon establishment of growth of the microorganism. A free fatty acid then is fed into the broth to achieve and maintain a free fatty acid concentration in the broth of about 0.1% by weight or greater but less than a level at which the free fatty acid is toxic to the microorganism. The free fatty acid is fed into the broth during the remainder of fermentation at about a rate at which the free fatty acid is consumed by the microorganism, to product high titers of the polyether antibiotic.