Isolation and Characterization of Antagonistic Activity of Some Streptomycetes and their Specific Actinophages from Soil

Autor: Samar S. El-Masry, Sonya H Mohamed, Badawy A Othman, Khalid A El-Dougdoug, Atef S Sadik
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences. 24:516-526
ISSN: 1028-8880
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2021.516.526
Popis: lt;bgt;Background and Objective:lt;/bgt; Phages specific to actinomycetes are common, active in the soil and gladly detected. Soil streptomycetes are having antibiosis activities against numerous bacteria, fungi and plant viruses. Thus, this study was designed to isolate, purify and characterize some streptomycetes active against some microorganisms from soil followed by isolation of their specific phages.lt;bgt;Materials and Methods:lt;/bgt; Antagonistic activities of these streptomycetes isolates were tested againstlt;igt;Bacillus subtilislt;/igt;,lt;igt; Pseudomonaslt;/igt; sp.,lt;igt;Serratialt;/igt; sp. andlt;igt;Aspergillus nigerlt;/igt;. To confirm their biological characterization of the streptomycetes isolates under investigation, the 16SrRNA gene was also used. The presence of specific lysate actinophages in the soil samples were tested by spot test technique and then propagated and purified for further characterization. The morphology of the purified actinophages was determined by electron microscopy.lt;bgt;Results:lt;/bgt; The five selectedlt;igt;Streptomyceslt;/igt; isolates having effective antagonistic activity were biologically and molecularly identified aslt;igt;Streptomyces sclerogranulatuslt;/igt;(QQ06),lt;igt;Streptomyces mutabilislt;/igt;(QQ07),lt;igt;Streptomyces heilongjiangensislt;/igt;(QQ08),lt;igt;Streptomyces sparsuslt;/igt;(QQ09) andlt;igt;Streptomyces purpurascenslt;/igt;(QQ10) strains. Electron micrographs showed the presence of filamentous virus-like particles with lengths of 21.4×928.57, 25×750, 21.4×857.14, 21.4×885.7 and 21.4×857.14 nm specific tolt;igt;Streptomyceslt;/igt; strains QQ06, QQ07, QQ08, QQ09 and QQ10, respectively and belong to the family Inoviridae.lt;bgt;Conclusion:lt;/bgt; Phage of Inoviridae was considered as the first time against streptomycetes isolates, therefore, additional and advanced studies should be carried out at the level of molecular characterization.
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