IN VITRO ANTAGONISTIC ACTIVITY OF SOIL STREPTOMYCES COLLINUS DPR20 AGAINST BACTERIAL PATHOGENS Pachaiyappan Saravana Kumar1, Michael Gabriel Paulraj1, Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu1,3*, Naif Abdullah Al-Dhabi2, Devanathan Sukumaran4 Address(es): Dr. Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu, 1Division of Microbiology, Entomology Research Institute, Loyola College, Chennai, India-600 034. 2Department of Botany and Microbiology, Addiriyah Chair for Environmental Studies, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia. 3International Scientific Program Partnership (ISPP), King Saud University, Riyadh11451, Saudi Arabia 4Vector Management Division, Defence Research and Development Establishment, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. *Corresponding author:
[email protected] doi: 10.15414/jmbfs.2017/18.7.3.317-324 ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Received 20. 9. 2017 Actinomycetes are one of the most important groups that produce useful secondary metabolites. They play a great role in pharmaceutical Revised 2. 11. 2017 and industrial uses. The search for antibiotic producing soil actinomycetes to inhibit the growth of pathogenic microorganisms has Accepted 6. 11. 2017 become widespread due to the need for newer antibiotics. The present work was aimed to isolate soil actinomycetes from pinus tree Published 1. 12. 2017 rhizosphere from Doddabetta, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India. Thirty one actinomycetes were isolated based on heterogeneity and stability in subculturing; they were screened against 5 Gram positive and 7 Gram negative bacteria in an in vitro antagonism assay. In the preliminary screening, out of 31 isolates, 12.09% showed good antagonistic activity; 25.08% showed moderate activity; 19.35% Regular article showed weak activity and 41.93% showed no activity against the tested bacteria. Among the isolates tested, DPR20 showed good antibacterial activity against both Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria.