Studies on culture condition of new marine bacterium Zooshikella sp. SY01

New marine bacterium Zooshikella sp.SY01,producer of prodigiosin,was isolated from the seawaters of Sanya Bay.The culture conditions of this bacterium were investigated.Zooshikella sp.SY01 was cultured in 2216E media which contained tryptophan,histidine,lac-tonic acid,camphor,limonene,casein,diphenyl guani-dine,coumarin and 1,3-dinitrobenzene,respectively.After 5 days cultivation,the extracts of different culture broths were detected by direct infusion mass spectroscopy using positive ESI mode.As the results,tryptophan,his-tidine and casein didn't show any observable influences on the biosynthesis of prodigiosin.Lactonic acid,camphor,limonene,diphenyl guanidine,coumarin could inhibit the bacterium growth and prodigiosin biosynthesis to a cer-tain extent,slower the culture broth to turn red.However,1,3-dinitrobenzene inhibited the bacteria to produce pro-digiosin completely.MS data suggested that various metabolites with chemodiversity were produced in differ-ent culture media.In particular,a series of high-molecu-lar-weight compounds with high relative abundances were observed in the medium containing limonene.To further optimize the culture condition,more new prodigiosin ana-logues and lead compounds can be obtained and the goal of"one strain-many compounds"can be achieved.