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MYCOLOGY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON FUNGAL BIOLOGY
Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages 109-117Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/21501203.2019.1572034
Keywords
Penicillium; marine fungi; anticancer; antibacterial; LCMS; secondary metabolites; continental slope; Arabian Sea
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- Department of Science and Technology-Science and Engineering Research Board-National Postdoctoral Fellowship (DST-SERB-NPDF) [FPDF/2015/000554]
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Marine fungi, one of the major decomposers of marine environment, is found to produce potential enzymes and novel biomolecules. The present study explored bioprospecting potentials such as antimicrobial, anticancer and enzymatic activities of marine sediment-derived fungi isolated from continental slope of Eastern Arabian Sea. Morphology and ITS sequencing identified the fungus as Penicillium sp. ArCSPf. The fungal strain exhibited amylase, gelatinase, phytase, lipase and pectinase activity. The active fraction obtained from the ethyl acetate extract column fractionation (F2) of fungus showed antibacterial activity against both methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Bacillus cereus. Minimum inhibitory concentrations of F2 were 125 mu g/mL for MRSA and 62.5 mu g/mL for B. cereus. The active fraction showed a significant anticancer activity (IC50 = 22.79 mu g/mL) against MCF-7 breast cancer cells. The secondary metabolite (Z)-Octadec-9-enamide (oleamide, m/z 282.27 (M + H+)] was identified in the LC-MS/MS analysis of active fraction F2 in positive ionisation mode. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on exploring the bioprospecting potential of a sediment-derived fungus from continental slope of eastern Arabian Sea for the production of therapeutically active compounds.
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