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        <journal-title>American Journal of Pharmacy and Health Research</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">AJPHR</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2321-3647</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">AJPHR210008</article-id>
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        <article-title>Isolation and Identification of Cytotoxic Potential Bacterium from Marine Sponge Spirastrella Inconstans</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>S</surname>
            <given-names>Bharathiraja.</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>J</surname>
            <given-names>Suriya.</given-names>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>R</surname>
            <given-names>Rajasekaran.</given-names>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>T</surname>
            <given-names>Govindan.</given-names>
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      <aff id="aff1">CAS in Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Sciences, Annamalai University, Parangipettai-608 02. Tamilnadu, India.</aff>
      <aff id="aff2">Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, Government Arts College, Chidambaram 608 102.</aff>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2014-10-01">
        <month>10</month>
        <day>01</day>
        <year>2014</year>
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      <volume>2</volume>
      <issue>10</issue>
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        <p>In order to explore the cytotoxic potential of sponge associated marine bacteria, bacterial colonies were obtained from marine sponge Spirastrella inconstans. Totally 14 aerobic, heterotropic and morphologically different bacterial strains were purified and cultured in marine broth. Crude metabolite was extracted using ethylacetate as extracting solvent. The metabolites were tested for its antiproliferative activity against A549 lung adenocarcinoma cell line. The colorimetric based MTT assay revealed strain MB13 as potent cytotoxic bacterium. The strain was identified as Pseudoalteromonas piscicida using 16s rRNA sequencing and biochemical test.</p>
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        <kwd>Spirastrella inconstans</kwd>
        <kwd>antiproliferative</kwd>
        <kwd>lung adenocarcinoma</kwd>
        <kwd>Pseudoalteromonas piscicida.</kwd>
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