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Martha Kaihena, Mas’uth Pratomo MS, Abdul M Ukratalo
natural ingredients that are more patent,
inexpensive, have fewer side effects and are
continuously available in large quantities
(Hartini, 2001).
Maluku is an area in Indonesia which
consists of a very wide archipelago with seas
that stretch around each island. This area has
marine biodiversity and provides opportunities
to utilize marine biota in the search for
secondary metabolites of new bioactive
compounds. Marine biota (marine organisms)
are a very rich source of natural materials with
unique biological activities (Handayani et al.,
2012). Polychaeta are invertebrate animals
that belong to the phylum Annelida. People in
Indonesia know polychaeta by the name of sea
worms, because most of their habitat is in the
sea.
One of the worms in Worms Laor
(Lysidice oela). This wormis one type that
belongs to the family
Eunicidae
which is usually
consumed by most people in Maluku
(Pamungkas, 2009).These worms usually
come to the surface of the water in March or
April while moving his body or dancing. The
spiral movement of the worms to the surface
of the water allows these two worms of
different sexes to meet, which eventually
breaks off and sperm or egg cells come out.
The meeting between the egg and sperm will
become a zygote that will go to the seabed. It
was at that time that the people caught the
sea worms and until now it has become a
tradition for the people of Maluku.
The abundant number of laor worms
during the timbah laor activity is an indication
that the laor worms have the ability to protect
themselves from other creatures in the sea
(Jekti et al., 2008). The ability to take care of
itself is possible because the laor worm has
active ingredients (natural products) that can
kill or inhibit the growth of other living things.
The ability of the Laor worm to inhibit the
growth of benthos bacteria is related to the
place where the Laor worm lives, namely in
coral. The chemical components of sea worms
encourage the development of isolating and
identifying secondary metabolites found in sea
worms. Secondary metabolites have the ability
as bioactive compounds so they are very
promising as lead compounds for materials
that have pharmacological activity.
Identification of secondary metabolite
content is an important initial step in research
to search for new bioactive compounds from
natural ingredients that can be precursors for
the synthesis of new drugs or prototypes of
certain active drugs (Rasyidi, 2016). The group
of secondary metabolites is very abundant and
commonly found in organisms including
alkaloids, flavonoids, phenols, steroids, and
terpenoids (Marliana, 2007). This study aims
to determine the potential of secondary
metabolites from the Laor worm (Lysidice oela)
in inhibiting the growth of Escherichia coli
bacteria andTo find out the secondary
metabolite compounds contained in Laor
worms.
METHOD
Material
The materials used were Laor worm samples,
96% ethanol, 50% methanol, Mg metal, ethyl
acetate, petroleum ether, 1 N HCl,
concentrated HCl, 2% HCl, chloroform, DMSO,
chloramphenicol, acetic acid anhydrous,
concentrated H2SO4, Aquades, 1% FeCl3,
Reagent solution (dragendorff, mayer), KBr,
Medium NA, Medium NB, Aluminum foil,
Escherichia coli, disc paper and cotton.
Method
The research method used is descriptive
qualitative and quantitative research through
two stages of experimental testing in the
laboratory, the first stage aims to determine
the effect of the type of solvent on the
antibacterial activity of laor worm extract. Laor
worms were extracted with a variety of
solvents consisting of ethanol, ethyl acetate
and petroleum ether. Extraction of active
compounds was carried out using the
maceration method, the extraction results