Antimicrobial activity observed among cultured marine epiphytic bacteria reflects their potential as a source of new drugs: Research article

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 113-124

  Penesyan, Anahit ^a   Marshall Jones, Zoe ^b   Holmstrom, Carola ^a   Kjelleberg, Staffan ^a   Egan, Suhelen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b WALTHAM CENTRE FOR PET NUTRITION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial producing bacteria; Delisea pulchra; Epibionts; Phylogenetic diversity; Ulva australis

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RNA 16S;

ABUNDANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM; COLONIZATION; DRUG; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EPIBIONT; EPIPHYTE; GREEN ALGA; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALGA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDETES; DELISEA PULCHRA; DRUG RESEARCH; EPIPHYTE; EUKARYOTE; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; MARINE BACTERIUM; MARINE SPECIES; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBULBIFER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULVA AUSTRALIS;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG DISCOVERY; GENES, RRNA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; ULVA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; DELISEA PULCHRA; EUKARYOTA; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MICROBULBIFER; ULVA AUSTRALIS;

EID: 66749133970     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00688.x     Document Type: Article

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