Antibiotics play an important role in drug development. About 70 percent of antibiotics used today are made from soil actinobacteria. However, despite the increase in the resistance of various types of bacteria, there is a shortage of new antibiotics to control them. To solve this problem, scientists are researching in different parts of the world to find new antibiotics.
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Following this, scientists have found four species of Actinobacteria isolated from invertebrate samples found in the Arctic Ocean.
"We have discovered an antibiotic compound that can inhibit the growth of enteropathogenic E. coli bacteria without affecting it," said Pivi Tamela, a scientist at the University of Helsinki in Finland. We discovered this compound from actinobacteria found deep in the Arctic Ocean. E coli bacteria cause severe diarrhea in children under the age of five. E coli bacteria cause disease by destroying human intestinal cells.
Scientists also found two unknown compounds with potent antiviral or antibacterial properties from samples collected from the Arctic. The research was published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology. Observations suggest that an active compound is likely a phospholipid, a class of fatty phosphorus-containing molecules. It plays an important role in cell metabolism.