Photoprotective bioactivity present in a unique marine bacteria collection from Portuguese deep sea hydrothermal vents.

ABSTRACT: Interesting biological activities have been found for numerous marine compounds. In fact, screening of phylogenetically diverse marine microorganisms from extreme environments revealed to be a rational approach for the discovery of novel molecules with relevant bioactivities for industries such as pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical. Nevertheless, marine sources deliverables are still far from the expectations and new extreme sources of microbes should be explored. In this work, a marine prokaryotic collection from four Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) deep sea hydrothermal vents near the Azores Islands, Portugal, was created, characterized and tested for its photoprotective capacity. Within 246 isolates, a polyphasic approach, using chemotaxonomic and molecular typing methods, identified 23-related

SUBMITTER: Martins A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3707158 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature