Antibacterial and Antifungal Compounds from Marine Fungi

Abstract

This paper reviews 116 new compounds with antifungal or antibacterial activities as well as 169 other known antimicrobial compounds, with a specific focus on January 2010 through March 2015. Furthermore, the phylogeny of the fungi producing these antibacterial or antifungal compounds was analyzed. The new methods used to isolate marine fungi that possess antibacterial or antifungal activities as well as the relationship between structure and activity are shown in this review.

Antibacterial Efficacy of Crude Extracts of Trichoderma Spp. Isolated From Mangrove Rhizosphere

“…The sponges, corals and mangroves associated fungi were expected to synthesize unique secondary metabolites. In addition, 20 compounds with promising antimicrobial activities were derived from fungi isolated from marine sediments.This study indicates that marine sediments act as a reservoir for fungal isoaltion 12 . In our present study, new source of mangrove rhizosphere soil fungus was taken for the bioactive compound production.…”

Antimicrobial activity of marine fungi isolated from the Son Tra peninsula, Da Nang, Vietnam

“…Xu et al (2015) also reported that seaweeds are one of the most common materials for the isolation of fungal strains producing antibacterial and antifungal compounds. The genus Aspergillus has more than 100 species, and belongs to the Ascomycota division, Deuteromycota subdivision, Hyphomycetes class, Moniliales order, Moniliaceae family (Feitosa et al, 2016).…”

Antimicrobial Drug Discovery: Evident Shifting from Terrestrial to Marine Micro-organisms

“…Algae, sponges and mangroves have special interactions with fungi and are the most common materials for the isolation of fungal strains that can produce antibacterial or antifungal compounds. The marine fungal strains from Hypocreales (order), and the Aspergillus and Penicillium genera should be utilized more for the discovery of new antibacterial or antifungal compounds (Xu et al, 2015). Seaweed (macroalgae) refers to several species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae, found mostly at sea bed.…”

“…The dominant genera in the marine fungi producing antimicrobial compounds were the Aspergillus genus and the Penicillium genus (Xu et al, 2015). Some other potent antimicrobials agents have been derived from marine resource but from other than microorganisms like sponge-derived polydiscamide and darwinolide (Rajanbabu et al, 2015 andVon salm et al, 2016).…”