Isolation of antarctic microorganisms and screening of antitumor activity / 中国海洋药物

ABSTRACT

There were some samples collected from the Antarctic soil and South Ocean water for isolation of microorganisms and screening of their antitumor bioactivity by lethality bioassay using brine shrimp and a flow cytometric bioassay.There were 259 stains were isolated from the samples,11% of the Antarctic microorganisms showed strong antitumor activity.This result showed that the Antarctic microorganisms have a good potential in bioactive metabolites researching.