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Adaptation of marine derived fungus Chaetomium globosum (NIOCC 36) to alkaline stress using antioxidant properties

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Title Adaptation of marine derived fungus Chaetomium globosum (NIOCC 36) to alkaline stress using antioxidant properties
 
Creator Ravindran, C.
Naveenan, T.
 
Subject Antioxidants
Marine fungi
Free radical
Chaetomium globosum
 
Description The fungi are an exceptionally useful model in elucidating the cell functions under extreme conditions (temperature, salinity, and pH values) and mechanisms underlying adaptation to those extreme environmental conditions. Here, Chaetomium globosum was examined for its adaptation mechanism under alkaline stress using antioxidant properties. The aqueous extracts of C. globosum exhibited different levels of antioxidant activity in all the in vitro tests such as alpha, alpha-diphenyl-beta-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH), hydrogen peroxide, hydroxyl radical scavenging assay (HRSA), ferric reducing/antioxidant power (FRAP) assay, metal chelating assay and beta-carotene-linolic acid model system. The antioxidant capacity of marine fungi showed an increase in activity with increase in stress. In addition, the production of intra and extracellular antioxidant enzymes of the fungus at various pH stresses were analyzed and discussed for their possible role in the stress mechanism. The present study elucidates that the scavenging activity is one of the protective mechanisms developed to avoid the deleterious effect of stress. Furthermore, the in vitro assays also clearly indicate that fungal extracts are significant source of natural antioxidant, which might be helpful in preventing the progress of various oxidative stresses
 
Date 2011-03-09T10:56:14Z
2011-03-09T10:56:14Z
2011
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Process Biochemistry, vol.46; 2011; 847-857
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/3813
 
Language en
 
Rights An edited version of this paper was published by Elsevier. Copyright [2011] Elsevier
 
Publisher Elsevier