Antiproliferative secondary metabolites producing bacterial strain AVSC4 isolated from marine sediments was identified as Bacillus flexus based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. Under the strategy of liquid- liquid extraction, the crude extract was obtained showed significant antibacterial activity against different clinical pathogens. 0.5% methionine and 0.4% NaCl act as inducers for maximizing the growth and antibacterial activity of strain at pH 7 and 40°C. Heptadecanoic acid and methyl hexadecanoic acid were identified as major and dominant secondary metabolites by GC-MS analysis and also showed significant antiproliferative activity against HT-29 (Human colorectal adenocarcinoma) and A-549 (Lung Cancer) with IC50 value 93.4 µg/ml and 50.04 µg/ml.
From decades, viral diseases including emerging and chronic viral infections are increasing worldwide health concern. Corona virus, SARS COV-2, is a new strain identified in 2019 caused Covid-19, in Wuhan, China has caused more than 5,304,772 infections and ~342,029 deaths worldwide over 203 countries, and the numbers are increasing exponentially from time to time. Since no specific treatment and diagnosis are available for COVID-19, discovery of new antiviral agents have become the most urgent need than in past, especially from natural sources. Hence, our present study is aimed to investigate bioactive molecules from Zingiber officinale (ginger) and Allium sativum (garlic) as potential SARS COV-2 main protease inhibitors, using a molecular docking by Auto dock 4.2, with the Lamarckian Genetic Algorithm, to analyze the probability of docking. SARS COV-2 main protease was docked with five selected compounds (zingerone, gingerol, paradol, dichloro flavin (ginger), and allicin (garlic), and were analyzed by Auto dock 4.2, PyMol version 1.7.4.5. Chloroquine and hydroxy chloroquine were used as standards for comparison. The binding energies obtained from the docking of Covid-19 main protease with biological ligand; zingerone, gingerol, paradol, dichloro flavin, and allicin were -5.31, -4.73, -5.51, -6.05, -3.74 kcal/mol, while, standard drugs such as hydroxy chloroquine and chloroquine possess binding energies of -4.88 and -5.25 kcal/mol respectively. It indicates that, zingerone, paradol and dichloloroflavan show more binding energy than chloroquine and hydroxy chloroquine, whereas, gingerol and allicin exhibited lesser binding energy. Comparing these five molecules, dichloroflavan and paradol from ginger shows highest affinity and binding sites for target protein.
Present study has focused on the effect of chemical (solvents) and physical (photo) conditions on pigment production and its bioactivity of intracellular orange fluorescent pigment (IOFP) extracted from soil bacterium Bacillus endophyticus. Standardization of pigment and its colour stability was confirmed by using different solvents (70% & 100% ethanol, hexane, heptane, ethyl acetate, acetone, petroleum ether, chloroform, methanol and distilled water), photo conditions (Dark, U.V light and White light) on pigment production and its bio-activeness by antibacterial activity using agar cup plate method against gram-positive (Staphylococcus aureus, streptococcus pyogenes and Listeria monocytogenes) and gram-negative (Salmonella typhi, Vibrio cholera, Shigella Flexneri and E.coli) human pathogens and purification of pigment by TLC coupled with bio-autographic studies. Acetone is proved to be the best solvent for extraction and the pigment was stable in all solvents without changing its colour except heptane. When compared to control (dark incubation) antibacterial activity of IOFP produced in U.V and W. Light was effective against all tested pathogens with slight differences in their antibacterial activity. TLC bio-autographic studies reveal that the separated pure band shows clear zone of inhibition under red back ground of live cells stating that, the compound is active against human bacterial pathogens. Hence this study concludes that, the production and biological activity of the IOFP was independent of light incubation, and TLC guided bio-autographic approach offers a rapid detection technique that avoids the testing of purified fraction once again.
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