Title
Marine-derived Penicillium in Korea : diversity, enzyme activity, and antifungal properties
Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Publication Date
8-2014
Volume
106
Issue
2
First Page
331
Last Page
345
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Keywords
Marine-derived fungi, Penicillium, Multi-gene phylogenetic approach, Alginase, β-Glucosidase, Antifungal activity
Abstract
The diversity of marine-derived Penicillium from Korea was investigated using morphological and multigene phylogenetic approaches, analyzing sequences of the internal transcribed spacer region, β-tubulin gene, and RNA polymerase subunit II gene. In addition, the biological activity of all isolated strains was evaluated. We tested for the extracellular enzyme activity of alginase, endoglucanase, and β-glucosidase, and antifungal activity against two plant pathogens (Colletotrichum acutatum and Fusarium oxysporum). A total of 184 strains of 36 Penicilliumspecies were isolated, with 27 species being identified. The most common species werePenicillium polonicum (19.6 %), P. rubens (11.4 %), P. chrysogenum (11.4 %), and P. crustosum(10.9 %). The diversity of Penicillium strains isolated from soil (foreshore soil and sand) and marine macroorganisms was higher than the diversity of strains isolated from seawater. While many of the isolated strains showed alginase and β-glucosidase activity, no endoglucanase activity was found. More than half the strains (50.5 %) showed antifungal activity against at least one of the plant pathogens tested. Compared with other strains in this study, P. citrinum(strain SFC20140101-M662) showed high antifungal activity against both plant pathogens. The results reported here expand our knowledge of marine-derived Penicillium diversity. The relatively high proportion of strains that showed antifungal and enzyme activity demonstrates that marine-derived Penicillium have great potential to be used in the production of natural bioactive products for pharmaceutical and/or industrial use.
DOI
10.1007/s10482-014-0205-5
Print ISSN
00036072
E-ISSN
15729699
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Language
English
Recommended Citation
Park, M. S., Fong, J. J., Oh, S.-Y., Kwon, K. K., Sohn, J. ., & Lim, Y. W. (2014). Marine-derived Penicillium in Korea: Diversity, enzyme activity, and antifungal properties. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 106(2), 331-345. doi: 10.1007/s10482-014-0205-5
