ABS "Chashnikovo" - Agrobiostation, Moscow State University, Moscow Region, Russia

ACAM - Australian Collection of Microorganisms, Hobart, Australia

AHU - Laboratory of Culture Collection of Microorganisms, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

AJ - Central Research Laboratories Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Kawasaki, Japan

AMNH - American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA

AMP - Australian Mycological Panal, isolates made in 1944; also previously referred to as "Aust" or "SN" serial no.

ATCC - American Type Culture Collection, Rockville, Maryland, USA

AUCM - see VKM

BBS - Belomorsk Biological Station, Moscow State University, Murmansk region, Russia

BIN - Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Scien- ces, 2, Professor Popov Str., St.-Petersburg 197022, Russia (same as LE(BIN))

BiNII StPGU - Biological Research Institute, St.-Petersburg State University, 2, Oranienbaumskoe Ave., Stary Peterhoff, St.-Petersburg 198904, Russia

BNL - Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA

BPD - Boots Pure Drug Ltd., Nottingham, U.K.

BSI - Biology and Soil Institute, Far-Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 159, Pr.100 let Vladivostoku, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia

BTCC - Bulgarian Type Culture Collection, State Institute for Control of Drugs, Sofia, Bulgaria

BU - see BUCSAV

BUCSAV - Biologisky Ustav Ceskoslovenska Akademic Ved., Prague, Czecho-Slovakia

BUN - Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254-9110, USA

CBS - Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Baarn and Delft, The Netherlands

CCEB - Culture Collection of Entomogenous Bacteria, Prague, Czecho-Slovakia

CCF - Charles University Prague, Department of Botany Faculty of Natural Sciences, Czecho-Slovakia

CCM - Czechoslovak Collection of Microorganisms, I.E.Purkyne University, Brno, Czecho-Slovakia (see MDB)

CCMCU - Culture Collection of Microorganisms, Departamento de Microbiologia, Madrid, Spain

CCRC - Culture Collection and Research Center Food Industry Research and Development Institute, Taiwan

CCUG - Culture Collection of Goteborg, Department of Clinical Bacteriology, Goteborg, Sweden

CCY - Czechoslovak Collection of Yeasts, Institute of Chemistry of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Czecho-Slovakia

CDA - Canadian Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada

CDC - Centre for Disease Control or Communicable Disease Center, United States Public Health Service, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

CECT - Collection Espanola de Cultivos Tipo, Departemento de Microbiologia, Universidad de Valencia, Burjasot, Valencia, Spain

CERIA - Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherces des Industrie Alimentaires et Chimiques, Institute Emile Gryson Brux 7

CGSC - E.coli Genetic Stock Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA

CIP - Collection de l'Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

CLU - Columbia University, New York, USA

CMI - C.A.B. International Mycological Institute, Kew, Surrey, U.K., formerly Commonwealth Mycological Institute or IMI

CN - Burroughs Welcome Research Laboratories, Beckenham, Kent, U.K.

CNCM - Collection Nationale de Cultures de Microorganisms, Paris, France

CRC - Cardiological Research Centre, Russian Academy of Medi- cal Sciences, 15a, 3rd Cherepkovskaya Str., Moscow 121552, Russia

CSG - Collection of Strains, Gatchina, Russia, see PNPI

CSHL - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York 11724, USA

CUB - Actinomycetes Culture Collection, School of Applied Biology, University of Bradford, Yorkshire, U.K.

CUP - Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

DG MGU - Department of Genetics and Selection, Moscow State University, Vorobyovy Gory, Moscow 119899, Russia

DLP - Department of Lower Plants, see StPGU

DLP KhGU - see KhGU

DMA MGU - Department of Mycology and Algology, Moscow State University, Vorobyovy Gory, Moscow 119899, Russia

DMUR - Department of Micology, University of Recife, Brazil

DSB MGU - Department of Soil Biology, Faculty of Soil Scien- ces, Moscow State University, Vorobyovy Gory, Moscow 119899, Russia

DSM - Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen, Gmb, Braunschweig, Germany

EAN - Estacao Agronomica Nacional, Portugal

EFPL - Eastern Forest Laboratory, Ottawa, Canada

EMI - Estonian Forest Research Institute, Tartu, Estonia

ETH - Eidgenosishe Technishe Hochshule, Institut fur Spezielle Botanik, Zurich, Schwitzerland

FDA - U.S.Food and Drug Administration, Washington, D.C., USA

FERM - Fermentation Research Institute, Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Ministry of Industrial Trade and Industry, Japan

FGSC - Fungal Genetic Stocks Center, Department of Microbio- logy, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA

FHCRC - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle WA 98104, USA

FRR - Division of Food Research, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Ogranization, Australia

GI - Gamaley Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, 13, Gamaley Str., Moscow 123098, Russia

GSI - Gif-sur-Ivett, France

GTU - State Technical University, St.-Petersburg 195251, Russia

HACC - Research Laboratory, Hindustan Antibiotics Ltd., Pimpri Poona, India

HMGB - see NCAIM

HUC - Harward University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

HUT - HUT. Department of Fermentation Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Japan

IAI - Institute of Aircraft Industry, Moscow, Russia

IAM - Institute of Applied Microbiology, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ko, Tokyo, Japan

IB - Institute of Biology, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Cheboksary, Russia

IBCh - Shemyakin Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 16/10, Miklykho-Maklay Str., Moscow GSP-7, 117871, Russia

IBK - See IBK Ukr.

IBK Ukr. - Kholodny Institute of Botany (Collection) Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, 2, Repin Str., Kiev GSP-1, 252601, Ukraine

IBMCh - Institute of Biological and Medical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, 10, Pogodinskaya Str., Moscow 119121, Russia

IBPh - Institute of Biophysics, 46, Zhivopisnaya Str., Moscow 123182, Russia

IBPhM - Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow region 142292, Russia

IBSO - Institute of Biophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Akademgorodok, Krasnoiyarsk-36 660036, Russia

IC - Institute of Cytology, 4, Tikhoretsky Prospekt, St.- Petersburg 194064, Russia

ICMP - International Collection of Microorganisms from Plant, Plant Diseases Division, DSIR, Auckland, New Zealand

ICPB - International Collection of Phytopathogenic Bacteria, Davis, California, USA

IEAME - Institute for Evolutionary Animal Morphology and Eco- logy, Russian Academy of Sciences, 33, Lenin Prospekt, Moscow 117071, Russia

IEP - Department of Insect Pathology, Institute of Entomology, Prague, Czecho-Slovakia

IF - Institute for Forestry, Karelsky Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, 11, Pushkinskaya Str., Petrozavodsk 185610, Russia

IFM - Institute for Food Microbiology, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

IFO - Institute for Fermentation, Osaka, Japan

IGC - Centro de Biologia Instituto Gubbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras, Portugal

IGU - Irkutsk State University, 5, Sukhe-Bator Str., Irkutsk 664000, Russia

IHM - Instituto de Higiene Experimental, Montevideo, Uraguay

IHMC - Institute of High-Molecular Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, 31, Bolshoy Prospekt, St.- Petersburg 119004, Russia

IIWB - Institute of Internal Water Biology, Borok p/b 152742, Nekouzskii district, Yaroslavl region, Russia

IJFM - Instituto Jaime Ferran de Microbiologia del Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, Spain

IMB - Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 32, Vavilov Str, Moscow GSP-1, 117984, Russia

IMCAS - Institute of Microbiology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czecho-Slovakia

IMET - Nationale Kulturensammlung fur Mikroorganismen, Zentralinstitut fur Mikrobiologie und Experimentelle Therapie, Jena, Germany

IMG - Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 46, ak. Kurchatov Square, Moscow 123182, Russia

IMG* - Institut fur Mikrobiologie, Universitat Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany

IMI - see CMI

IMiV - Institute of Microbiology and Virology, Kazakh Academy of Sciences, 103, Kirov Str., Alma-Ata-100 480100, Kazakhstan

IMP - Marzenovsky Institute of Medical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, 20, M. Pirogovskaya Str., Moscow 119435, Russia

IMRU - Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, New Jersy, USA

IMV - Zabolotny Institute of Microbiology and Virology, 154, Zabolotny Str., Kiev-143 252143, Ukraine, (same as Ukr.IM)

IMZh - See IEAME

INA - Institute for New Antibiotics, 11, B.Pirogovskaya Str., Moscow 119867, Russia

INEOS - Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, 28, Vavilov Str., Moscow GSP-1, 117813, Russia

INMI - Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 7, Bldg 2, Prospekt 60-letiya Oktiyabriya, Moscow GSP-7, 117811, Russia

INMIA - Institute of Microbiology, Armenian Academy of Sciences, Arzninskoe Ave., Abovian 378510, Armenia

IOC - Instituto Oswaldo Cruz., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

IOGEN - Vavilov Institute for General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 3, Gubkin Str., Moscow 117809, Russia

IPF - Institute Pasteur, Paris, France

IPh - Kirensky Institute of Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Akademgorodok, Krasnoiyarsk-36 660034, Russia

IPO - Institut voor Planteziektenkundig Onderzock, Wageningen, The Netherlands

IPV - Instituto di Patologia Vegetale, Milano, Italia

ISP - International Streptomyces Project, Ohio Wesleyan Univer- sity, Delaware, Ohio, 43015, USA

ISSA - Institute of Soil Sciences and Agrochemistry, Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, 5, Khrebtovaya Str., Baku-122 370122, Azerbaijan

IVRKU - Institute for Virus Research Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

IZB - Institute of Zoology and Botany, Estonian Academy of Sciences, 21, Vanemuise Str., Tartu 202400, Estonia (same TAA)

JCM - Japan Collection of Microorganisms, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Saitama, Japan

JHU - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USAKCC - Culture Collection of Actinomycetes, Kaken Chemical Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan (Collection transferred to JCM)

KGU Mold. - Kishinev State University, 65, Pirogov Str., Kishinev 277000, Moldova

KhGU - Kharkov State University, 16, Universitetskaya Str., Kharkov 310000, Ukraine

KhCRI - Khabarovsk Complex Research Institute, 65, Kim U Chen Str., Khabarovsk, Russia

KL - Bacteriological Department of the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

KM MGU - Department of Microbiology, Faculty for Biology, Moscow State University, Vorobyovy Gory, Moscow 119899, Russia

KM StPGU - Department of Microbiology, St.- Petersburg State University, 29, 16-th line of Vasilyevsky Ostrov, St.- Petersburg 199178, Russia

KMUzb. - Institute of Microbiology (Collection), Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, 7a, A. Kadyri Str., Tashkent 700128, UzbekistanKS - see IMET

KSM - Collection of Genetical Strains of Bacteria, see GI

KUSM - Kyushu University School of Medicine, Fukuoka 812, Japan

LBG - Laboratory of Genetic Regulation of Biochemical Processes, see GI

LC - Laboratory of Cryptogamy, National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France

LCP - see LC

LE (BIN) - Komarov Botanical Institute, Collection, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, see BIN

LHFI - See PHFI

LIA - Research Institute of Antibiotics and Enzymes, 41, Ogorodnikov Prospect, St.-Petersburg 198020, Russia

LKB - Laboratory of Kodama Brewing Company, Iitagawa machi. Akita Prefecture, Japan

LLB - Lenin Library's Laboratory, 3, Kalininsky Prospekt, Moscow 121019, Russia

LM BiNII StPGU - Biological Research Institute, St.-Petersburg State University, Laboratory of Microbiology, 2, Oranienbaumskoe Ave., Stary Peterhoff, St.-Petersburg 198904, Russia

LMG - Collection Laboratorium voor Microbiologie Gent, Fakulteit Vetenschappen-Rijksuniversiteit, Belgium

LMGE - Laboratory for Molecular Genetics of Episomes, Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, see GI

LMGY - Laboratory for Molecular Genetics of Yeasts Institute for Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, see IMG

LSHB - Biochemistry Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, U.K.

LWP - Senezh Laboratory for Wood Preservation, Pl. Senezh, Moscow region, 141500, Russia

MBG - Main Botanical Garden, Russian Academy of Sciences, 4, Botanicheskaya Str., Moscow 127276, Russia

MDB - Microbiology Department, Faculty of Natural Sciences University, Brno, Czecho-Slovakia (see CCM)

MGU - Moscow State University, Vorobyovy Gory, Moscow 119899, Russian

MI - Mechnikov Research Institute for Vaccines and Sera, 5a, Mechnikov Str., Moscow 103064, Russia

MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

MITC - Moyne Institute Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

MKD - Laboratory for Molecular Fundamentals of Genetics, Collection of Institute for Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, see IMG

MLH - Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wettenberg, Sektion Sio- wissen Schaften, Halle/S, Germany

MPIMG - Max-Planck-Institut fur Molekulare Genetik, 1000 Ber- lin, 33 Germany

MR - Institute for Microbial Resource, 9-5-1209 Kudankita 1-Chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102 Japan

MUCL - Mycothegue de l'Universite Catholique de Louvain, Laboratoire de Mycologie Systematique et Appliquee Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

MW - Institut fur Spezielle Botanik, Iena, Abt. Mycologie, Weimar, Germany

NCA - National Canner's Association, Washington, D.C., USA

NCAIM - National Collection of Agricultural and Industrial Microorganisms, University of Harticulture and Food Industry, Department of Microbiology, Budapest, Hungary

NCDC - see CDCNCDO - National Collection of Dairy Organisms, Reading, U.K.

NCFB - National Collection of Food Bacteria, AFRC Institute of Food Research, Shinfield, Reading RG2 9AT, U.K.

NCIB - National Collection of Industrial Bacteria, Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K.

NCIM - National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms, National Chemical Laboratory, Poona 8, Maharashtra, India

NCIMB - National Collections of Industrial and Marine Bacteria, Ltd., Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K.

NCMB - National Collection of Marine Bacteria, Torry Research Station, Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K.

NCPPB - National Collection of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria, Plant Pathology Laboratory, Harpenden, Hertsfordshire, U.K.

NCTC - National Collection of Type Cultures, Central Public Health Laboratory, London, U.K.

NCYC - National Collection of Yeast Cultures, Food Research Institute, Colney Lane, Norwich, U.K.

NHL - National Institute of Hygiene Scinces, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Kamiyoga 1-Chome, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 158 Japan

NI - Nagao Institute, Tokyo, Japan

NIG - National Institute of Genetics, Japan

NIH - National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20014, USA

NILOS - Research Experimental Station for Subtropical Forestry and Park Economy, Sochi, Russia

NPO "Vitaminy" - See RIV

NRC - National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

NRCC - see NRC

NRIC - Nodai Research Insitute Culture Collection, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan

NRRL - ARS Culture Collection, Northern Regional Research Laboratory, U.S.Department of Agriculture, Peoria, Illinois, USA

NRS - Collection of the late Dr.N.R.Smith, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., USA (most strains now at ATCC or NRRL)

NYUSM - New York University School of Medicine, USA

OKI - National Institute for Public Health, Budapest, Hungary

ORNL - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

OUT - Osaka University, Faculty of Engineering, Yamadaue, Suita City, Osaka, Japan

PAF - St.-Petersburg Academy for Foresty, St.-Petersburg, Russia

PCI - Penicillin Control and Immunology Section, Food and Drug Administration, Washington, D.C., USA

PCM - Peterhoff Collection of Microorganisms, 7/9, Universi- tetskaya Nab., St.-Petersburg 199034, Russia

PHFI - St.-Petersburg Chemico-Pharmaceutical Institute, 14, Professor Popov Str., St.-Petersburg 197022, Russia

PHRI - Public Health Research Institute of the City of New York, Inc

PIBCh - Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far-Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 159, Prospekt 100 let Vladivostoku, Vladivostok 690022, Russia

PNPI - Konstantinov St.-Petersburg Nuclear Physic Institute, Gatchina 188350, Russia

PRL - Prairie Regional Laboratory, Saskatoon, Canada

PRU - Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA

PSA - Progetto Sistematica Actinomiceti, Institute of Microbi- ology, Milano University, Milano, Italia

PZH - Collection of Cultures, Institute of Hygiene, Warsaw, Poland

QM - Quartermaster Research and Development Centre, U.S. Army Natick Laboratory, Natick, Massachusetts, USA

QMC - Queen's Medical Centre, U.K.

RIA - Research Institute for Antibiotics, 3a, Nagatinskaya Str., Moscow 113105, Russia

RIAM - Research Institute of Applied Microbiology, Obolensk, Moscow region 142279, Russia

RIBC - Kucherenko Research Institute for Building Constructions, 6, 2nd Institutskaya Str., Moscow 109389, Russia

RIBMI - Research Institute for Butter and Cheese Manufacture Industry, 19, Krasnoarmeisky Prospekt, Uglich, Yaroslavl region 152620, Russia

RIMVS - Research Institute of Medical Veterinary Sciences, 5, Zvenigorodskoe Ave., Moscow 123022, Russia

RIR - Research Institute of Restoration and Preservation of Art Values, Moscow, Russia

RIV - Research Institute for Vitamins (same as NPO "Vitaminy"), 14a, Nauchny Proezd, Moscow 117820, Russia

RIVE - Collection of the Research Institute of Viticulture and Enology, Bratislawa, Czecho-Slovakia

RM - Art Restoration Research Center, 34a, B.Ordynka Str., Moscow 109017, Russia

RSA - Rancho Santo Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, California, 91711, USA

SCC - Schering Corporation, USA

SN - see AMP

SSIC - Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Escherichia and Klebsiella (WHO), Statens Serum Institute, Denmark

STG - Stratagene Ltd: Cambridge Innovation Centre, Cambridge CB4 4GF, U.K.

StPGU - St.- Petersburg State University, 7/9, Universitetskaya Nab., St.- Petersburg 199034, Russia

STU - Stanford University, California, USA

SUL - State University of Leiden, Wassenaarseweg 64, Leiden, The Netherlands

TA - Timiriyazev Academy for Agriculture, 51, Timiriyazev Str., Moscow 125008, Russia

TAA - See IZB

TI - Tarassevich State Research Institute for Standardization and Control of Medical Biological Preparations, 41, Sivtsev Vrazhek, Moscow 121002, Russia

TIFI - Moscow Technological Institute for Food Industry, Moscow, Russia

TUB - Budapest Technical University, Budapest, Hungary

TUN - Texas University, Texas 77843, USA

UAMH - University of Alberta Microfungus Collection and Herbarium, University of Alberta Devonian Botanic Garden, Canada

UCB - The University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA

UCLA - University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA

UCS - Universidad de Cantabria 39011-Santander, Espana

UGA - University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA

UGL - University of Glasgow, Glasgow 611 5JS, Scotland, U.K.

UIC - University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA

Ukr.IM - See IMV

Ukr.RIFI - Ukraine Research Institute for Food Industry, 368, Klochkovskaya Str., Kharkov GSP 310000, Ukraine

ULDL - University of Liverpool, Donnan Laboratories Liverpool, L69 3BX, U.K.

UMMS - University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA

UNA - University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85724, USA

UNB - University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TD, U.K.

UNC - University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado 80262

UNED - University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JR U.K.

UNF - Universitat Freiburg, 7800 Freiburg, Germany

UNG - Universite de Geneve, CH-1211 Geneve 4, Switzerland

UNL - Universite de Liege, Liege, Belgigue B-4000

UNR - Universitat Regensburg, D-8400, Germany

UPCC - U.P.-Natural Sciences Research Institute Culture Collection, University of the Philippines, Philippines

UPSC - Uppsala University Culture Collection of Fungi, Sweden

UQM - University of Queensland, Department of Microbilogy, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

USDA - United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., USA

UTIMS - University of Tokyo, Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan

UTO - University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 1A8, Canada

UWMC - University of Wisconsin Medical Centre, Madison Wisconsin 53706, USA

UWO - University of Western Ontario, Canada

VILAR - NPO VIAR - 7a, Grin Str., Moscow, Russia

VIZR - Institute for Plant Protection, 3, Podbelsky Ave., Pushkin-6, St.-Petersburg 189620, Russia

VKM - Russian Collection of Microorganisms, Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow region 142292, Russia

VKPM - Collection of Industrial Microorganisms, Institute for Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms, 1, 1st-Dorozhny Proezd, Moscow 113545, Russia

VNIIGenetics - See VKPM

VNIIhydrolysis - Research and Production Association "Gydro- lysisprom", 13, Kalinin Str., St-Petersburg 198099, Russia

VNIIKHPLO - Research Institute for Breadbaking Industry, St.-Petersburg Division, 18a, Smolenskay Str., St.-Peters- burg 196084, Russia

VNIIMP - See RIB

VNIISHM - Research Institute of Agricultural Microbiology, 3, Podbelsky Ave., Pushkin-6, St.- Petersburg 189620, Russia

VNIISHMM - Research Institute of Agricultural Microbiology, Moscow Department

VNIIsintezbelok - Research Institute for Biosynthesis of Proteic Substances, 27, B.Kommunisticheskaya Str., Moscow 109004, Russia (same as VSB).

VNIISViV Mold. - Research Institute of Horticulture, Viticulture and Winemaking, 14, Fruktovaya Str., Kishinev 277000, Moldova

VNITIAF - Research Institute of Antibiotics and Enzymes, 41, Ogorodnikov Prospekt, St.- Petersburg 198020, Russia (same as LIA)

VPI - Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University, Blacksburg, V., USA

VSB - See VNIIsintezbelok

VTT - VTT Collection of Industrial Microorganisms, Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), Biotechnical Laboratory, Finland

WB - University of Wisconsin, Bacteriology Department (K.B.Raper), Madison, Wisconsin, USA

WFPL - Western Forest Products Laboratory, Vancouver, Canada

WIM - see IMRU

WHO - World Health Organization

WUN - Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA

YGSC - Yeast Genetic Stock Center, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

YUSM - Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

ZBH - Zentrum Biochemie Medizinische Hochschule, D-3000 Hannover 61, Germany

ZIMET - see IMET