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Natural Product Research

Formerly Natural Product Letters
Volume 28, 2014 - Issue 12
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Biological activities of organic extracts of four Aureobasidium pullulans varieties isolated from extreme marine and terrestrial habitats

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Pages 874-882
Received 11 Sep 2013
Accepted 25 Jan 2014
Published online: 28 Feb 2014

We report on the screening for biological activities of organic extracts from seven strains that represent four varieties of the fungus Aureobasidium pullulans, that is A. pullulans var. melanogenum, A. pullulans var. pullulans, A. pullulans var. subglaciale and A. pullulans var. namibiae. We monitored haemolysis, cytotoxicity, antioxidant capacity and growth inhibition against three bacterial species. The haemolytic activity of A. pullulans var. pullulans EXF-150 strain was due to five different haemolytically active fractions. Extracts from all of the other varieties contained at least one haemolytically active fraction. Short-term exposure of cell lines to these haemolytically active organic extracts resulted in more than 95% cytotoxicity. Strong antioxidant capacity, corresponding to 163.88 μg ascorbic acid equivalent per gram of total solid, was measured in the organic extract of the strain EXF-3382, obtained from A. pullulans var. melanogenum, isolated from the deep sea. Organic extracts from selected varieties of A. pullulans exhibited weak antibacterial activities.

Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge the Slovenian Research agency (Research Programme P2-0046 and P1-0055). The authors wish to thank Mrs Tina Perko for her short-term technical help in the laboratory at very early stages of this study. The authors also wish to thank Dr Christopher Berrie for editorial assistance with the manuscript.

 

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