Biodiversity and biological applications of marine actinomycetes-Abu-Qir Bay, Mediterranean Sea, Egypt.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The ability of actinomycetes to produce bioactive secondary metabolites makes them one of the most important prokaryotes. Marine actinomycetes are one of the most important secondary metabolites producers used for pharmaceuticals and other different industries.

Results

In this study, the promising actinomycetes were isolated from Abu-Qir Bay. Four different media named as starch nitrate, starch casein, glycerol asparagine, and glycerol glycine were used as a preliminary experimental media to study the role of the medium components on the counts of actinomycetes in sediment samples. The results indicated that starch casein medium reported the highest counts (30-63 CFU/g) in all the tested sites. Lower counts were detected on starch nitrate and glycerol asparagine.

SUBMITTER: Hegazy GE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10684441 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature