Prodigiosin pigment of Serratia marcescens is associated with increased biomass production

Review of Prodigiosin, Pigmentation in Serratia marcescens

Prodigiosins, a family of natural red pigments characterized by a common pyrrolylpyrromethane skeleton, are produced by various bacteria that first characterized from Serratia marcescens. This pigment is a promising drug owing to its reported characteristics of having antifungal, immunosuppressive and anti-proliferative activity. From an industrial point of view to obtain optimal conditions to ...

The LysR Transcription Factor, HexS, Is Required for Glucose Inhibition of Prodigiosin Production by Serratia marcescens.

Generation of many useful microbe-derived secondary metabolites, including the red pigment prodigiosin of the bacterium Serratia marcescens, is inhibited by glucose. In a previous report, a genetic approach was used to determine that glucose dehydrogenase activity (GDH) is required for inhibiting prodigiosin production and transcription of the prodigiosin biosynthetic operon (pigA-N). However, ...

Pigment biosynthesis in Serratia marcescens

Anti-biofouling activity of Prodigiosin, a pigment extracted from Serratia marcescens

Isolation and virtual screening of antimicrobial prodigiosin pigment from oxalotrophic Serratia marcescens OX_R strain

1 Microbial Culture Collection, National Centre for Cell Science, Pashan, Pune – 411021, India. 2 Department of Microbiology, Elphinstone College, Fort, Mumbai 400 032, India. 3 Department of Botany, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune – 411007, India. 4 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Pharmacy, Kolhapur 416013, India. 5 Biochemical Division, National Ch...