Research Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacodynamics

  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 3

Screening of Phytochemicals and Antibacterial Activity of Marine Red Alga Portieriahornemannii (Lyngbye) P. C. Silva

  • Author:
  • Subbiah Murugesan1, Sundaresan Bhuvaneswari1, U.S. Mahadeva Rao2, Vajiravelu Sivamurugan3,
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 131 to 136

1Division of Algal Biotechnology and Bionano Technology, Post Graduate and Research Department of Botany, Pachaiyappa's College, Chennai-600 030, India

2Faculty of Medicine, School of Basic Medical Sciences, University Sultan Zainal Abidin, Jalan Sultan Mahmud, 20400, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia

3Post Graduate and Research Department of Chemistry, Pachaiyappa's College, Chennai-600 030, India

Abstract

The evaluation of phytochemicals and antimicrobial activities of marine red alga Portieriahornemannii against bacterial pathogens have been established in the present investigation. The quantitative phytochemical screening of the methanol extract of P.hornemannii, showed a maximum number of natural products such as tannins, flavonoids, glycosides, phenols, saponins, terpenoids, etc. The antimicrobial activity of methanol extract of P.hornemannii showed the highest inhibition against Staphylococcusaureus (77.77%) and the chloroform extract showed the lowest activity against Pseudomonasaeruginosa by showing (52.63%) as evaluated by disc diffusion method. Our findings provide the evidence that the methanol extract of P. hornemannii possesses the good antimicrobial activity and hence, the alga proves to be an effective therapeutic agent.

Keywords

Phytochemical, Portieria hornemannii, Antibacterial activity, Therapeutic agent