Diversity and Antibacterial Activities of Fungi Derived from the Gorgonian Echinogorgia Rebekka from the South China Sea

Overview

Journal Mar Drugs

Publisher MDPI

Specialties Biology
Pharmacology

Date 2011 Sep 6

PMID 21892352

Citations 7

Authors

Ya-Nan Wang

Chang-Lun Shao

Cai-Juan Zheng

Yi-Yan Chen

Chang-Yun Wang

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Abstract

The diversity of symbiotic fungi associated with the gorgonian coral Echinogorgia rebekka from the Weizhou coral reef in the South China Sea was investigated. Combined with morphologic traits, ITS-rDNA sequences revealed 18 fungal strains from this gorgonian. All of the 18 fungi belonged to the phylum Ascomycota and were distributed among seven genera in five orders: Eurotiales (Aspergillus and Penicillium), Pleosporales (Alternaria), Capnodiales (Cladosporium), Trichosphaeriales (Nigrospora) and Hypocreales (Hypocrea and Nectria). Antibacterial activities of these fungal strains were investigated with five pathogenic bacteria. All of the 18 fungal strains displayed different levels of antibacterial activities, most of which exhibited moderate to high antibacterial activities to the Gram-positive pathogens Staphylococcus aureus and Micrococcus tetragenus, and showed relatively low bioactivities to other three pathogenic bacteria. Several fungal strains in the genera Penicillium and Cladosporium with strong antibacterial activities provide potential for further research on isolation of bioactive secondary metabolites.

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