INFLUENCE EXERTED BY SIDEROMYCINS ON POLY-U-DIRECTED INCORPORATION OF PHENYLALANINE IN S-30 FRACTION OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS

In a cell-free system obtained from Staphylococcus aureus SG 511, the sideromycin antibiotics danomycin and A 22,765 inhibit the poly U-directed incorporation of phenylalanine; albomycin has no influence on this incorporation, whereas ferrimycin A1 actually enhances it. In the case of the antibiotic A 22,765 it has been demonstrated that S-30 extracts from A 22,765-sensitive cells of S. aureus behave in the same way as those from A 22,765-resistant cells; in no instance, however, was ferrioxamine B able to counteract the inhibitory effect of A 22,765. The sideromycins, which are regarded as a homogeneous group on the basis of their chemical and biological characteristics, possibly have differing mechanisms of action. The possibility that sideromycin permeation may be susceptible to antagonism by sideramines is discussed. © 1969 Springer-Verlag.