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Suchithra, R.
- Biochemical and Physiological Characteristics of Actinomycetes Isolated from High Altitude Shola Soils of Tropical Montane Forest
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1 School of Environmental Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India- 686560, IN
2 School of Marine sciences, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUST), Cochin, Kerala, India-682022
1 School of Environmental Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India- 686560, IN
2 School of Marine sciences, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUST), Cochin, Kerala, India-682022
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Indian Journal of Innovations and Developments, Vol 1, No 3 (2012), Pagination: 142-144Abstract
Actinomycetes are gram-positive, free-living, saprophytic bacteria widely distributed in soil, water and colonizing plants showing marked chemical and morphological diversity. They are potential source of many bioactive compounds, which have diverse clinical effects and important applications in human medicine. In the present work, we have studied some of the physiological and biochemical characteristics of 36 actinomycete strains isolated from the shola soils of tropical montane forest; a relatively unexplored biodiversity hotspot. Ability of actinomycetes isolates to ferment and produce acids from various carbohydrate sources such as innositol, mannose, sorbitol, galactose, mannitol, xylose, rhamnose, arabinose, lactose and fructose were studied. Almost all the carbon compounds were utilized by one or other actinomycete isolates. The most preferred carbon sources were found to be xylose (94.44%) followed by fructose and mannose (91.66%). Only 41.76% of the isolates were able to ferment lactose. The ability of actinomycetes isolates to decompose protein and amino acid differ considerably. 72.22% of the isolates were able to decompose milk protein casein and 61.11% of the isolates decompose tyrosine. Only 8.33% of the strains were able to decompose amino acid hypoxanthine and none of them were able to decompose amino acid xanthine. Potential of the actinomycetes isolates to reduce esculin, urea and hippurate and to resist lysozyme was also checked. 91.66% of the isolates showed ability to decompose esculin and 63.88% of the isolates had the capacity to produce urease and to decompose urea. Only 25% of the isolate were able to decompose hippurate and 94.44% showed lysozyme resistance.Keywords
Actinomycetes, Tropical Montane Forest, Biochemical CharacteristicsFull Text
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