Rapid Method To Estimate the Presence of Secondary Metabolites in Microbial Extracts

AUTOR(ES)

Higgs, Richard E.

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

Screening microbial secondary metabolites is an established method to identify novel biologically active molecules. Preparation of biological screening samples from microbial fermentation extracts requires growth conditions that promote synthesis of secondary metabolites and extraction procedures that capture the secondary metabolites produced. High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis of fermentation extracts can be used to estimate the number of secondary metabolites produced by microorganisms under various growth conditions but is slow. In this study we report on a rapid (approximately 1 min per assay) surrogate measure of secondary metabolite production based on a metabolite productivity index computed from the electrospray mass spectra of samples injected directly into a spectrometer. This surrogate measure of productivity was shown to correlate with an HPLC measure of productivity with a coefficient of 0.78 for a test set of extracts from 43 actinomycetes. This rapid measure of secondary metabolite productivity may be used to identify improved cultivation and extraction conditions by analyzing and ranking large sets of extracts. The same methods may also be used to survey large collections of extracts to identify subsets of highly productive organisms for biological screening or additional study.

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