Lutte contre les salissures marines : approche par procédés enzymatiques.

Fouling on marine underwater surfaces causes critical and economic problems such as important material biodamages and industrial performances reduction. We chose to test antifouling potential of enzymatic commercial preparations like hydrolases (proteases, glycosidases and lipases) in order to inhibit the first fouling adhesion step: bacterial biofilm formation. An evaluation test of antifouling properties onto marine bacterial adhesion was designed using a mono-incubation of Pseudoalteromonas sp. D41 in microtiter plate and in sterile natural sea water. This test was adapted to screen agents for bacterial adhesion removal or inhibition activities and allowed to test enzymatic preparations toxicity on non adhered bacteria. Inhibition rates according to logarithm of enzymatic preparation concentration exhibits a sigmoid shape like dose-response curves. Among hydrolases, proteases like subtilisin are the most efficient enzymes. The efficiency of amylase, lipase and protease activity mixture was evaluated and showed a high synergistic inhibition on Pseudoalteromonas sp. D41 adhesion in microtiter plate. Studies on polymeric extracellular substances from Pseudoalteromonas sp. D41 in fermentation and in biofilm will be helpful in the understanding of the organic molecules nature involved in the adhesion inhibition.