Isolation and partial characterization of bacteria (Pseudoalteromonas sp.) with potential antibacterial activity from a marine costal environment from New Caledonia

Type Article
Date 2014-02
Language English
Author(s) Dufourcq R.1, Chalkiadakis Eletherios1, 2, Fauchon M.3, Deslandes Eric3, Kerjean V.3, Chanteau S.1, Petit Elodie3, Guezennec Jean4, Dupont-Rouzeyrol M.1
Affiliation(s) 1 : Reseau Int Inst Pasteur, Inst Pasteur Nouvelle Caledonie, URE DA, Noumea, New Caledonia.
2 : IFREMER, Lab Biotechnol & Mol Marine, Plouzane, France.
3 : Univ Bretagne Occidentale, Plateforme Technol BIODIMAR, Brest, France.
4 : Advices Marine Biotechnol, Plouzane, France.
Source Letters In Applied Microbiology (0266-8254) (Wiley-blackwell), 2014-02 , Vol. 58 , N. 2 , P. 102-108
DOI 10.1111/lam.12162
WOS© Times Cited 9
Keyword(s) antibacterial activity, characterization, marine bacteria, New Caledonia, screening
Abstract Marine bacteria are a rich source of bioactive metabolites. However, the microbial diversity of marine ecosystem still needs to be explored. The aim of this study was to isolate and characterize bacteria with antimicrobial activities from various marine coastal environment of New Caledonia. We obtained 493 marine isolates from various environments and samples of which 63 (12.8%) presented an antibacterial activity against a panel of reference pathogenic strains (Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli and Enterococcus faecalis). Ten out of the most promising strains were cultured, fractionated and screened for antibacterial activity. Four of them (NC282, NC412, NC272 and NC120) showed at least an activity against reference and multidrug-resistant pathogenic strains and were found to belong to the genus Pseudoalteromonas, according to the 16S phylogenetic analysis. The NC282 strain does not belong to any described Pseudoalteromonas species and might be of interest for further chemical and biological characterization. These findings suggest that the identified strains may contribute to the discovery for new sources of antimicrobial substances to develop new therapies to treat infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria.
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Dufourcq R., Chalkiadakis Eletherios, Fauchon M., Deslandes Eric, Kerjean V., Chanteau S., Petit Elodie, Guezennec Jean, Dupont-Rouzeyrol M. (2014). Isolation and partial characterization of bacteria (Pseudoalteromonas sp.) with potential antibacterial activity from a marine costal environment from New Caledonia. Letters In Applied Microbiology, 58(2), 102-108. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1111/lam.12162 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00174/28552/