Biotechnology Bulletin ›› 2015, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (8): 132-139.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2015.08.020

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Screening the Extracts of Marine Fungi for the Activity of Damaging the DNA of Escherichia coli and Researches on Active Strains

Bao Hanyan1, Gu Pengjuan1, Zhang Yi2, Mu Jun3, Feng Yan2, Zhao Chenyan1   

  1. 1.College of Environmental and Chemical Engineering,Dalian Jiaotong University,Dalian 116028; 2.College of Food Science and Technology of Guangdong Ocean University,Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Processing and Safety of Aquatic Products,Key Laboratory of Further Processing Aquatic Products of Guangdong Higher Education Institutions,Zhanjiang 524088; 3. College of Marine Science and Technology,Zhejiang Ocean University,Zhoushan 316022
  • Received:2014-11-06 Online:2015-08-21 Published:2015-08-22

Abstract: Screening of antimicrobial and antitumor agents from marine microorganisms is one of the hot spots for the research of marine drugs, and screening models play an important role in the study. The authors set up an Escherichia coli differentiated DNA damage repair test model, which can be used for the screening of antimicrobial and potential antitumor substances. This model was further applied to screen the bioactivities of the extracts of marine symbiotic fungi. As the result, five marine fungal strains’ extracts showed strong selective inhibition to E. coli strains with DNA damage repairing genes-deficiency, i.e, the potential of damaging DNA. The five strains were identified by molecular biological methods. Furthermore, analyses by thin layer chromatography(TLC)and high performance liquid chromatography(HPLC)-bioactivity tracing revealed that these strains produced diverse bioactive substances.

Key words: marine microorganisms, Escherichia coli differentiated DNA damage repair test model, identification