Mg, K-containing microparticle: A possible active principle of a culture extract produced by a microbial consortium.

ABSTRACT: A synthetic microbial consortium called Effective Microorganisms (EM) consists mainly of photosynthetic bacteria, lactic acid bacteria and yeast. Various effects of EM∙XGOLD, a health drink produced by EM, on life cycle of Dictyostelium discoideum were described previously. Here, we report our attempt to identify the active principle, termed EMF, that brought about the observed effects. Throughout the purification processes, the presence of the active principle was monitored by promoted fruiting body formation. By liquid-liquid separation the activity was recovered in aqueous phase, which, after concentration, was further subjected to reverse-phase column chromatography. No activity was detected in any eluant, while almost all the activity was recovered in residual insoluble material. The

SUBMITTER: Higashinakagawa T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8565762 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature