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Penicillium nalgiovense Laxa isolated from Antarctica is a new source of the antifungal metabolite amphotericin B
- Source :
- Fungal Biology and Biotechnology
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för farmakognosi, 2015.
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Abstract
- Background The need for new antibiotic drugs increases as pathogenic microorganisms continue to develop resistance against current antibiotics. We obtained samples from Antarctica as part of a search for new antimicrobial metabolites derived from filamentous fungi. This terrestrial environment near the South Pole is hostile and extreme due to a sparsely populated food web, low temperatures, and insufficient liquid water availability. We hypothesize that this environment could cause the development of fungal defense or survival mechanisms not found elsewhere. Results We isolated a strain of Penicillium nalgiovense Laxa from a soil sample obtained from an abandoned penguin’s nest. Amphotericin B was the only metabolite secreted from Penicillium nalgiovense Laxa with noticeable antimicrobial activity, with minimum inhibitory concentration of 0.125 μg/mL against Candida albicans. This is the first time that amphotericin B has been isolated from an organism other than the bacterium Streptomyces nodosus. In terms of amphotericin B production, cultures on solid medium proved to be a more reliable and favorable choice compared to liquid medium. Conclusions These results encourage further investigation of the many unexplored sampling sites characterized by extreme conditions, and confirm filamentous fungi as potential sources of metabolites with antimicrobial activity.
- Subjects :
- Metabolite
Microorganism
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Penicillium nalgiovense Laxa
Microbiology
chemistry.chemical_compound
Minimum inhibitory concentration
Streptomyces nodosus
Amphotericin B
Botany
medicine
Candida albicans
Molecular Biology
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
biology
Research
Läkemedelskemi
Cell Biology
biology.organism_classification
Antimicrobial
chemistry
Antarctica
Medicinal Chemistry
Penicillium nalgiovense
Biotechnology
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Fungal Biology and Biotechnology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....279c3168a6dfecee56720d5239252d9b