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Bioprospecting of marine derived actinomycetes with special reference to antimycobacterial activity

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Title Bioprospecting of marine derived actinomycetes with special reference to antimycobacterial activity
 
Creator Radhakrishnan, M
Balagurunathan, R
Selvakumar, N
Doble, Mukesh
Kumar, Vanaja
 
Subject Marine actinomycetes
Antimycobacterial activity
LRP assay
 
Description 407-410
Present study consists the bioprospecting of marine actinomycetes with special reference to antimycobacterial activity. Totally 49 actinomycetes were isolated from sediment samples collected from mangrove area of Pitchavaram coastal areas of Parangipettai and Andaman &amp; Nicobar Islands and by using starch casein agar medium. Based on the cultural and microscopic characteristics, 30 isolates were identified as <i style="">Streptomyces </i>sp. and 19 as rare actinomycetes including 11 <i style="">Micromonospora </i>sp. Bioactive substance from all the isolates were produced by shake flask fermentation method using yeast extract malt extract broth. Culture filtrate and mycelial methanol extracts were tested against drug sensitive and drug resistant clinical isolates of <i style="">M. tuberculosis</i> and standard strain <i style="">Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> H37Rv by luciferase reporter phage (LRP) assay. Culture filtrate and/or mycelial methanol extracts from 41 out of 49 actinomycetes inhibited at least one of the <i style="">M. tuberculosis</i> strains tested. Culture filtrates from actinomycetes strains viz., R6 (<i style="">Streptomyces</i> sp), M1A6 (<i style="">Micromonospora</i> sp), M1A15 (<i style="">Actinosynnemma</i> sp), M1A18 (<i style="">Micromonospora</i> sp) and M1A23 (rare actinomycete) showed more than 90% reduction in RLU by LRP assay. Isolation of active compounds from these potent strains probably would lead to the discovery of novel antiTB drugs.
 
Date 2011-07-19T04:48:22Z
2011-07-19T04:48:22Z
2011-06
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/12432
 
Language en_US
 
Rights <img src='http://nopr.niscair.res.in/image/cc-license-sml.png'> <a href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/in' target='_blank'>CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India</a>
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.40(3) [June 2011]