ISOLATION OF MYXOL FROM A MARINE BACTERIUM FLAVOBACTERIUM SP ASSOCIATED WITH A MARINE SPONGE

An orange pigment-producing bacterium, which was identified as Flavoba cterium sp., was isolated from a Palauan marine sponge Nomaxinella sp. The main orange pigment was extracted from the cultured mycelium and purified by chromatographic method. It was identified as myxol by mean s of a spectral data. This is the first isolation of myxol, which is k nown as the aglycone of myxoxanthophyll widely distributed in cyanobac teria.