Bacteria and pesticides: a new aspect of interaction--involvement of a new biofactor.

Positively charged hydrophobic pesticides of the dipyridyl family [diquat, paraquat, benzylviologen (BV++), etc.] were shown to provoke accumulation of 2-methylbutane-1,2,3,4-tetraol-2,4- cyclopyrophosphate in the cells Corynebacterium (Brevibacterium) ammoniagenes while neutral dipyridyls were not. Hydrophobicity was also an important factor in this phenomenon.

[X-RAY PHASE ANALYSIS OF THE TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF Act. roseoflavus var. roseofungini].

Crystallinity of tubular structures of Act. roseoflavus var. roseofungini obtained from both the initial culture and the dedifferentiating fructose mutant was shown with the method of roentgen-phase analysis (the difractometric method with ionization registration of reflection)

[Makeup of the tubular structures of a stock culture of Act. roseoflavus var. roseofungini].

The methods of spectral analysis, spectrophotometry, fluorescence and thin-layer chromatography were used for the study of the composition of the tubular structures of the initial culture of Act. roseoflavus var. roseofungini.

[Production of tubular structures from the aerial mycelium of Actinomyces roseoflavus var. roseofungini].

Tubular formations analogous by their structure to those found on the surface of the outer sheath of the hyphae of the aerial mycelium of Actinomyces roseoflavus var. roseofungini were reconstructed in vitro from the mycelium acetone extract on addition of water. A polyenic antibiotic was shown to be present in the composition of the "tubes".