Analysis of Antifungal Activity of Bacillus spp.

• Main Authors: Ji Yun Lin, 林芷妘
• Other Authors: Shu Ying Liu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48654771474332917415

碩士 === 大葉大學 === 分子生物科技學系碩士班 === 94 === The object of this study is to examine 34 clinical isolates of Bacillus spp. from blood of pseudo bacteremia patients in Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, focusing on species classification, antifungal activity, and identification of antifungal gene and active components. Bacterial classification was based on phenotyping (catalase test, reduction of nitrate, hemolysis test, indole production test, citrate utilization test, urease test, Voges-Proskauer test) and genotyping (polymerase chain reaction). All 34 clinical isolates of Bacillus spp. belonged to 8 species: B. cereus, B. thuringiensis, B. coagulans, B. licheniformis, B. pumilus, B. megaterium, B. circulans and B. firmus. From the results of antifungal analysis, B. thuringiensis CG 2, B. thuringiensis CG 4, B. pumilus CG 12, B. cereus CG 15, B. cereus CG 20 and B. cereus CG 26 exhibited significant antifungal activities. These six isolates were further analysed for their antifungal mechanism on Paecilomyces variotii Tü137. It’s well known that Bacillus subtilis F29-3 produces one antibiotic--fengycin, which effectively inhibits the growth of filamentous fungi. According to the sequence of fenB, 3 PCR primer sets were designed to analyze whether any of these 34 clinical isolates of Bacillus spp. contained fenB gene of fengycin. With one primer set, a 1.0 Kb fragment can be amplified in all 6 isolates with antifungal activity. The sequence of the PCR product showed high homology to ilvD. Whether ilvD is related to the antifungal activity remained to be elucidated. Furthermore, to identify the active components contributing to the antifungal activity, the fermentation supernatant were obtained from 6 isolates with antifungal activity and B. subtilis F29-3. After filtration, the supernatants showed no antifungal activity to Paecilomyces variotii Tü137. It appeared that only viable bacteria expressed antifungal activity.