Title
Partial purification and characterization of an antimicrobial substance produced by a marine Alteromonas sp.
Other title
Purificación parcial y caracterización de una sustancia antimicrobiana producida por Alteromonas sp. de origen marino
Date Issued
01 January 2005
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Abstract
A member of the genus Alteromonas sp. (strain N22.C) isolated from marine neuston and substance-producer which inhibit growth of ichthyopathogenics was characterized phenotipically by means of morphological, physiological and biochemical conventional tests. To determine the chemical nature of the inhibitory substance, raw extracts of supernatans from cultured strains were precipitated with increasing concentrations of Ammonium Sulphate up to 70% and filtered through columns of Sephadex G-25. Assays by Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate-Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) revealed that the antimicrobial substance is a proteinaceous compound with a molecular mass of approximately 34000 Da, which lacks sugar associated residues of it. Other assays made with raw semipurified fractions extracts of Alteromonas sp N22.C show the wide spectrum of antibiotic activity against pathogenic bacterial strains of fish, mollusks and crustaceans.
Start page
359
End page
368
Volume
12
Issue
3
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología marina, Biología de agua dulce, Limnología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84981746093
Source
Revista Peruana de Biologia
ISSN of the container
15610837
Sources of information:
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