Diversity and Antimicrobial Potential of Predatory Bacteria from the Peruvian Coastline.

ABSTRACT: The microbiome of three different sites at the Peruvian Pacific coast was analyzed, revealing a lower bacterial biodiversity at Isla Foca than at Paracas and Manglares, with 89 bacterial genera identified, as compared to 195 and 173 genera, respectively. Only 47 of the bacterial genera identified were common to all three sites. In order to obtain promising strains for the putative production of novel antimicrobials, predatory bacteria were isolated from these sampling sites, using two different bait organisms. Even though the proportion of predatory bacteria was only around 0.5% in the here investigated environmental microbiomes, by this approach in total 138 bacterial strains were isolated as axenic culture. 25% of strains showed antibacterial activity, thereby nine revealed activity agai

SUBMITTER: Linares-Otoya L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5666416 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature