bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.09.901108; this version posted June 20, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 Phylogenetic diversity and activity screening of cultivable actinobacteria isolated 2 from marine sponges and associated environments from the western coast of 3 India 4 5 Ulfat Baig1, Neelesh Dahanukar1, Neha Shintre2, Ketki Holkar1, Anagha Pund1, Uttara Lele1, 6 Tejal Gujarathi1, Kajal Patel1, Avantika Jakati1, Ruby Singh1, Harshada Vidwans1, Vaijayanti 7 Tamhane3, Neelima Deshpande2 and Milind Watve4 8 9 1Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune (IISER-P), Dr. Homi Bhabha 10 Road, Pashan, Pune 411008, Maharashtra, India. 11 2Department of Microbiology, M.E.S. Abasaheb Garware College, Karve Road, Pune 12 411004, Maharashtra, India. 13 3Institute of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune – 14 411007, Maharashtra, India 15 4Behavioural Intervention for Lifestyle Disorders (BILD) clinic, Deenanath Mangeshkar 16 Hospital and Research Centre, Erandwane, Pune 411004, Maharashtra, India. 17 18 Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to N. Dahanukar (email: 19
[email protected]) 20 21 22 23 Keywords: Bacterial predation; Antibiotic production; Secondary metabolites; Enzyme 24 inhibition; Molecular phylogeny. 25 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.09.901108; this version posted June 20, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.