Open AccessAntimicrobial activity and Characterization of Marine bacteria
Author(s) -
Pratheepa Jeganathan,
Kanniah Rajasekaran,
Naorem Kiranmala Devi,
S. Karuppusamy
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
indian journal of pharmaceutical and biological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2320-9267
DOI - 10.30750/ijpbr.1.4.8
Subject(s) - antimicrobial , marine bacteriophage , bacteria , alteromonas , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , bacillus subtilis , seawater , pseudomonas , bacillus (shape) , microorganism , ecology , genetics
Marine bacteria were isolated from seawater was collected from different coastal areas of the Tamilnadu Sea. The antimicrobial activities of these bacteria were investigated. Ethyl acetate extracts of marine bacterial fermentation were screened for antimicrobial activities using the method of agar diffusion. The results showed that 25 strains of the isolates have antimicrobial activity. The proportion of active bacteria associated with isolated from seawater. The active marine bacteria were assigned to the genera Alteromonas, Pseudomonas, Bacillus and Marinobacter. The TLC autobiographic overlay assay implied that the antimicrobial metabolites produced by four strains with wide antimicrobial spectrum were different. These marine bacteria were expected to be potential resources of natural antibiotic products. It can be concluded that isolation of Marine bacterial samples can offer a numbers of microbial strains for sources of new biomolecules from Marine sources.