THE ANTIMICROBIAL PROPERTIES OF MARINEDERIVED COMPOUNDS

Abstract

The Ocean covers more than 70% of the surface of the earth. The ocean ecosystem is vast and there is an immense potential to utilize the ocean creatures for their unconventional materials. Taking this by volume into consideration, it encompasses better than 95% of the biosphere. The ocean environment ranges from the nutrient zones to nutritionally sparse zones where scarcely a few species can survive. Many habitats of the ocean have found niches for the development of diverse kinds of life. The marine system is immensely complex, involving extreme pressure, salinity, temperature and biological habitat variations. The creatures' marine biota developed unique metabolic and physiological mechanisms that allow them to survive in harsh conditions and provide opportunities for the creation of new materials for use. But the research related to bacterial pathogens isolated from Mugil Cephalus is not being undertaken until now. Hence, the present study is hypothesised out to determine the alternative therapeutic agents from marine sources. The results were colour-based, green for live cells and red was dead cells. Dead cells were found mostly A concentration and this compound can be inhibiting cell wall synthesis.