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. 2018 Dec;16(2):287-294.
doi: 10.1016/j.jgeb.2018.05.010. Epub 2018 Jun 14.

Antibacterial activity of soil bacteria isolated from Kochi, India and their molecular identification

Davis Gislin  1   2 , Dorairaj Sudarsanam  1 , Gnanaprakasam Antony Raj  2 , Kathirvelu Baskar  2
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Antibacterial activity of soil bacteria isolated from Kochi, India and their molecular identification

Davis Gislin et al. J Genet Eng Biotechnol. 2018 Dec.

Abstract

The present study, deal about the antibiosis activity of soil bacteria, isolated from 10 different locations of rhizosphere and diverse cultivation at Kochi, Kerala, India. The bacteria were isolated by standard serial dilution plate techniques. Morphological characterization of the isolate was done by Gram's staining and found that all of them gram positive. Isolated bacteria were tested against 6 human pathogens viz., Escherichia coli, Enterococcus sp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus and Acinetobacter sp. Primary screening was carried out by perpendicular streaking and seed overlay method. Based on the result of primary screening most potential isolates of S1A1 and S7A3 were selected for secondary screening. Both the isolates showed positive results against Enterococcus sp. and S.aureus. The maximum antagonistic activity of 20.98 and 27.08 mm zone of inhibition was recorded at S1A1 against Enterococcus sp. and S. aureus respectively, at 180 µl concentration. Molecular identification was carried out by 16S rRNA sequence. The 16S rRNA was amplified from the DNA samples by using PCR. The amplified 16S rRNA PCR products were purified and sequenced. The sequences were subjected to NCBI BLAST. The isolates S1A1 and S7A3 BLAST results showed 99% and 95% respectively, similarity with the available database sequence of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens. The sequences were deposited in GenBank and the accession numbers KY864390 (S1A1) and KY880975 (S7A3) were obtained.

Keywords: 16S rRNA; Isolates; PCR; Soil bacteria.

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