Antimicrobial and morphogenic effects of emodin produced by A spergillus awamori WAIR120
2016
Ismaiel, Ahmed A. | Rabie, Gamal H. | Abd El-Aal, Marwa A.
The antimicrobial activity of anthraquinone emodin isolated from Aspergillus awamori WAIR120 (LC032125) culture was investigated against some clinical, phytopathogenic and foodborne pathogenic microorganisms using an agar diffusion method. Among bacterial and fungal strains tested, the highest activity was obtained against Enterococcus faecalis AHR7 as well as Aspergillus niger OC20 with minimal inhibitory emodin concentration of 125 and 85 μg/mL, respectively. Emodin was found to induce morphogenic effects including swelling and elongation of bacterial cell and conidiation decrease, pigmentation loss, and cytoplasmic retraction of fungal cell, as was shown by light microscopy. Additionally, cellular effects were also resulted, in which emodin caused considerable changes in the nature of cell membrane and submicroscopic structure of bacterial and fungal cell, as was shown by transmission electron microscopy. Furthermore, there was an evidence of a disruption of lipid metabolism of fungal cell. These findings thus indicate the future possibility of exploiting emodin as an effective inhibitor of clinical, phytopathogenic and foodborne pathogenic microorganisms.
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