Diversity and Bacteriostatic Activity of Cultivable Marine Bacteria from South China Sea Sediment at Low Temperature
The marine bacteria were isolated from the deep-sea sediment of the South China Sea,and cultivated at low temperature of 10℃ using conventional culture-dependent method.Then the diversity of cultivable bacteria was investigated and analyzed based on 16S rRNA gene sequence.Meanwhile,the bacteriostatic activity of fermentation broth of cultivable marine bacteria was determined by filter paper-agar diffusion method.The results showed that,a total of 32 cultivable marine strains were isolated from the deep-sea sediment of the South China Sea,belonging to 19 species of 3 phyla(Proteobacteria,Firmicutes,Bacteroidetes),of which,Bacillus strains were dominant.Furthermore,the metabolites of 17 strains had bacteriostatic activity against Escherichia coli,Staphylococcus aureus,Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus cereus,which accounted for 89.5% of all isolated bacterial species.It can be deduced that low temperature has a certain influence on diversity and activity of cultivable marine bacteria isolated from the deep-sea sediment of the South China Sea.
Deep-sea sedimentBacteriaDiversityBacteriostatic activityTemperature environmentThe South China Sea