Antimicrobial and Hemolytic Activity of the Fish Collagen Extracted from Freshwater Snakehead Fish Channa striatus

Author(s): A. Palanivel, M. Prakash*, G. Gunasekaran, A. Arulprakash and K. Loganathan

Abstract: Collagen is the most predominant, abundant and major protein of connective tissue present in the animal body. The collagens are widely used in many pharmaceutical industries, food, healthcare, cosmetics and scaffold tissue engineering. In the present study effort has been made to identify the antimicrobial and hemolytic activity of the collagen extracted from the freshwater snakehead fish Channa stiriatus. Extracted fish collagen were tested against the four pathogenic bacteria viz., Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus Subtilis and Klebsiella Pneumoniae, four pathogenic fungi namely Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus nidulans, Candida albicans, and Fusarium moniliforme. The hemolytic activity was tested on chicken and goat blood erythrocytes. The collagen extracted from freshwater fish shows a strong antibacterial and hemolytic activity.

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