scholarly journals Secondary Metabolites from the Marine Sponges of the Genus Petrosia: A Literature Review of 43 Years of Research

Marine Drugs ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Yeon-Ju Lee ◽  
Yeonwoo Cho ◽  
Huynh Nguyen Khanh Tran

Sponges are prolific sources of various natural products that have provided the chemical scaffolds for new drugs. The sponges of the genus Petrosia inhabit various regions and contain a variety of biologically active natural products such as polyacetylenes, sterols, meroterpenoids, and alkaloids. This review aims to provide a comprehensive summary of the chemical structures and biological activities of Petrosia metabolites covering a period of more than four decades (between 1978 and 2020). It is also described in this review that the major groups of metabolites from members of the genus Petrosia differed with latitude. The polyacetylenes were identified to be the most predominant metabolites in Petrosia sponges in temperate regions, while tropical Petrosia species were sources of a greater variety of metabolites, such as meroterpenoids, sterols, polyacetylenes, and alkaloids.

Author(s):  
Nurul-Syakima Ab Mutalib ◽  
Sunny Hei Wong ◽  
Hooi-Leng Ser ◽  
Acharaporn Duangjai ◽  
Jodi Woan-Fei Law ◽  
...  

The most biological multiplicity on this planet is almost certainly concealed in soils. Many valuable bacteria had been extensively dispersed in soils worldwide, with soils from terrestrial, desserts and Antarctic. Hence, soils become an intensively utilized ecological niche for the inhabitants to generate various useful biologically active natural products such asantibiotics, antifungal, antiviral, antioxidant, neuroprotection, anticancer and other important compounds. Bacteria including Actinobacteria have been exceptionally valuable for the pharmaceutical industry due to their limitless capability to generate secondary metabolites with various biological activities and chemical structure. Therefore, this article aims to provide critical insight of bioprospecting of microbes for valuable compounds to mankind.


Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (15) ◽  
pp. 4534
Author(s):  
Taitusi Taufa ◽  
Ramesh Subramani ◽  
Peter Northcote ◽  
Robert Keyzers

The islands of the South Pacific Ocean have been in the limelight for natural product biodiscovery, due to their unique and pristine tropical waters and environment. The Kingdom of Tonga is an archipelago in the central Indo-Pacific Ocean, consisting of 176 islands, 36 of which are inhabited, flourishing with a rich diversity of flora and fauna. Many unique natural products with interesting bioactivities have been reported from Indo-Pacific marine sponges and other invertebrate phyla; however, there have not been any reviews published to date specifically regarding natural products from Tongan marine organisms. This review covers both known and new/novel Marine Natural Products (MNPs) and their biological activities reported from organisms collected within Tongan territorial waters up to December 2020, and includes 109 MNPs in total, the majority from the phylum Porifera. The significant biological activity of these metabolites was dominated by cytotoxicity and, by reviewing these natural products, it is apparent that the bulk of the new and interesting biologically active compounds were from organisms collected from one particular island, emphasizing the geographic variability in the chemistry between these organisms collected at different locations.


Synthesis ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (06) ◽  
pp. 1342-1352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Izquierdo ◽  
Atul Jain ◽  
Sarki Abdulkadir ◽  
Gary Schiltz

The chromenone core is an ubiquitous group in biologically active natural products and has been extensively used in organic synthesis. Fluorine-derived compounds, including those with a trifluoromethyl group (CF3), have shown enhanced biological activities in numerous pharmaceuticals compared with their non-fluorinated analogues. 2-Trifluoromethylchromenones can be readily functionalized at the 8- and 7-positions, providing chromenones cores of high structural complexity, which are excellent precursors for numerous trifluoromethyl heterocycles.


Author(s):  
Sanrda Kim Tiam ◽  
Muriel Gugger ◽  
Justine Demay ◽  
Severine Le Manach ◽  
Charlotte Duval ◽  
...  

Cyanobacteria are an ancient lineage of slow-growing photosynthetic bacteria and a prolific source of natural products with diverse chemical structures and potent biological activities and toxicities. The chemical identification of these compounds remains a major bottleneck. Strategies that can prioritize the most prolific strains and novel compounds are of great interest. Here, we combine chemical analysis and genomics to investigate the chemodiversity of secondary metabolites based on their pattern of distribution within some cyanobacteria. Planktothrix being a cyanobacterial genus known to form blooms worldwide and to produce a broad spectrum of toxins and other bioactive compounds, we applied this combined approach on four closely related strains of Planktothrix. The chemical diversity of the metabolites produced by the four strains was evaluated using an untargeted metabolomics strategy with high-resolution LC-MS. Metabolite profiles were correlated with the potential of metabolite production identified by genomics for the different strains. Although, the Planktothrix strains present a global similarity in term biosynthetic cluster gene for microcystin, aeruginosin and prenylagaramide for example, we found remarkable strain-specific chemo-diversity. Only few of the chemical features were common to the four studied strains. Additionally, the MS/MS data were analyzed using Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking (GNPS) to identify molecular families of the same biosynthetic origin. In conclusion, we present an efficient integrative strategy for elucidating the chemical diversity of a given genus and link the data obtained from analytical chemistry to biosynthetic genes of cyanobacteria.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 1934578X2095143
Author(s):  
Qianqian He ◽  
Shuang Miao ◽  
Na Ni ◽  
Yuqing Man ◽  
Kaikai Gong

Marine sponges, which belong to the phylum Porifera (Metazoa), are considered the single best source of marine natural products. Among them, members of the genus Aaptos are attractive targets for marine natural product research owing to their abundant biogenetic ability to produce aaptamine derivatives. Apart from aaptamine alkaloids, there are also reports of other compounds from Aaptos sponges. This work reviews the secondary metabolites isolated from Aaptos species from 1982 to 2020, with 46 citations referring to 62 compounds (47 for aaptamines and 15 for others). The emphasis is placed on the structure of the organic molecules, relevant biological activities, chemical ecology aspects, and biosynthesis studies, which are described in the classifications of aaptamines and other compounds in the order of the published year.


Author(s):  
Manal Selim Mohamed Selim ◽  
Sayeda Abdelrazek Abdelhamid ◽  
Sahar Saleh Mohamed

Abstract Background The ability to produce microbial bioactive compounds makes actinobacteria one of the most explored microbes among prokaryotes. The secondary metabolites of actinobacteria are known for their role in various physiological, cellular, and biological processes. Main body Actinomycetes are widely distributed in natural ecosystem habitats such as soil, rhizosphere soil, actinmycorrhizal plants, hypersaline soil, limestone, freshwater, marine, sponges, volcanic cave—hot spot, desert, air, insects gut, earthworm castings, goat feces, and endophytic actinomycetes. The most important features of microbial bioactive compounds are that they have specific microbial producers: their diverse bioactivities and their unique chemical structures. Actinomycetes represent a source of biologically active secondary metabolites like antibiotics, biopesticide agents, plant growth hormones, antitumor compounds, antiviral agents, pharmacological compounds, pigments, enzymes, enzyme inhibitors, anti-inflammatory compounds, single-cell protein feed, and biosurfactant. Short conclusions Further highlight that compounds derived from actinobacteria can be applied in a wide range of industrial applications in biomedicines and the ecological habitat is under-explored and yet to be investigated for unknown, rare actinomycetes diversity.


Author(s):  
Keisham S. Singh ◽  
Supriya Tilvi

: The marine sponges of the genus Oceanapia sp. is comprised of more than 50 species and are distributed in the seas around the tropical and subtropical regions. They are mainly found in the northern Indian oceans, Japan, and the south pacific coast. They are highly colored and known to be a rich source of various secondary metabolites, particularly, alkaloids. Several other secondary metabolites were also reported from this genus which include terpenes, sphingolipids, ceramides, cerebrosides, acetylenic acids, and thiocyanatins, etc. Many of these compounds isolated from this genus exhibited various biological properties including anticancer, antimicrobial, anti-HIV, ichthyotoxicity and nematocidal activities. Although several secondary metabolites have been reported from this genus, a dedicated review of the chemicals and biological activities of this genus is so far lacking. Keeping this in mind this review describes the various chemical entities isolated from the sponges of the genus Oceanapia detailing their chemical structures along with their reported biological properties.


Toxins ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Kim Tiam ◽  
Muriel Gugger ◽  
Justine Demay ◽  
Séverine Le Manach ◽  
Charlotte Duval ◽  
...  

Cyanobacteria are an ancient lineage of slow-growing photosynthetic bacteria and a prolific source of natural products with diverse chemical structures and potent biological activities and toxicities. The chemical identification of these compounds remains a major bottleneck. Strategies that can prioritize the most prolific strains and novel compounds are of great interest. Here, we combine chemical analysis and genomics to investigate the chemodiversity of secondary metabolites based on their pattern of distribution within some cyanobacteria. Planktothrix being a cyanobacterial genus known to form blooms worldwide and to produce a broad spectrum of toxins and other bioactive compounds, we applied this combined approach on four closely related strains of Planktothrix. The chemical diversity of the metabolites produced by the four strains was evaluated using an untargeted metabolomics strategy with high-resolution LC–MS. Metabolite profiles were correlated with the potential of metabolite production identified by genomics for the different strains. Although, the Planktothrix strains present a global similarity in terms of a biosynthetic cluster gene for microcystin, aeruginosin, and prenylagaramide for example, we found remarkable strain-specific chemodiversity. Only few of the chemical features were common to the four studied strains. Additionally, the MS/MS data were analyzed using Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking (GNPS) to identify molecular families of the same biosynthetic origin. In conclusion, we depict an efficient, integrative strategy for elucidating the chemical diversity of a given genus and link the data obtained from analytical chemistry to biosynthetic genes of cyanobacteria.


2021 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessia Catalano ◽  
Domenico Iacopetta ◽  
Jessica Ceramella ◽  
Carmela Saturnino ◽  
Maria Stefania Sinicropi

: A huge number of nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds are ubiquitous in natural products, pharmaceuticals, and bioactive molecules. Among these, the pyranoindole represents an important structural motif, as it constitutes the central subunit in both the biologically active natural products and therapeutic agents. Talathermophilins, notoamides, norgeamides, carneamides, and versicamides are examples of naturally occurring pyranoindoles, while the well-known etodolac and pemedolac are a tetrahydropyrano[3,4-b]indole deriving from synthetic procedures. Besides the well-known antiinflammatory and fibrinolytic activity, molecules comprising the pyranoindole framework have been demonstrated to exhibit various biological activities, such as antiulcer, antidepressant, analgesic, and antiproliferative. Herein, we report the most common natural and synthetic products bearing a pyranoindole nucleus, their syntheses, and biological activities.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 194-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Novanna ◽  
K.R. Ethiraj ◽  
S. Kannadasan

Marine sponges are a rich source of more than 50% of marine natural compounds that have been isolated from marine organisms. This review article is focused on the importance of biologically active and pharmaceutically important secondary metabolites extracted from one of the important classes of marine sponge Hyrtios sp. This review also deals with reported synthetic routes of some indole alkaloids extracted from the marine sponge Hyrtios sp. A range of bioactivities displayed by indole-based alkaloids is described.


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