scholarly journals Natural Products from the Marine Sponge Subgenus Reniera

Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 1097
Author(s):  
Xuelian Bai ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
Hao Wang ◽  
Huawei Zhang

Marine sponges are one of the prolific producers of bioactive natural products with therapeutic potential. As an important subgenus of Haliclona, Reniera sponges are mainly distributed in the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic area, and had been chemically investigated for over four decades. By an extensive literature search, this review first makes a comprehensive summary of all natural products from Reniera sponges and their endozoic microbes, as well as biological properties. Perspectives on strengthening the chemical study of Reniera sponges for new drug-lead discovery are provided in this work.

2016 ◽  
Vol Volume 112 (Number 11/12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth K. Olsen ◽  
Christopher K. de Cerf ◽  
Godwin A. Dziwornu ◽  
Eleonora Puccinelli ◽  
Isabelle J. Ansorge ◽  
...  

Abstract Over the past 50 years, marine invertebrates, especially sponges, have proven to be a valuable source of new and/or bioactive natural products that have the potential to be further developed as lead compounds for pharmaceutical applications. Although marine benthic invertebrate communities occurring off the coast of South Africa have been explored for their biomedicinal potential, the natural product investigation of marine sponges from the sub-Antarctic Islands in the Southern Ocean for the presence of bioactive secondary metabolites has been relatively unexplored thus far. We report here the results for the biological screening of both aqueous and organic extracts prepared from nine specimens of eight species of marine sponges, collected from around Marion Island and the Prince Edward Islands in the Southern Ocean, for their cytotoxic activity against three cancer cell lines. The results obtained through this multidisciplinary collaborative research effort by exclusively South African institutions has provided an exciting opportunity to discover cytotoxic compounds from sub-Antarctic sponges, whilst contributing to our understanding of the biodiversity and geographic distributions of these cold-water invertebrates. Therefore, we acknowledge here the various contributions of the diverse scientific disciplines that played a pivotal role in providing the necessary platform for the future natural products chemistry investigation of these marine sponges from the sub- Antarctic Islands and the Southern Ocean.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunchang Xie ◽  
Jiawen Chen ◽  
Bo Wang ◽  
Tai Chen ◽  
Junyu Chen ◽  
...  

Abstract Backgrounds: Activation of silent biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) in marine-derived actinomycete strains is a feasible strategy to discover bioactive natural products. Actinoalloteichus sp. AHMU CJ021, isolated from the seashore, was shown to contain an intact but silent caerulomycin A (CRM A) BGC-cam in its genome. Thus, a genome mining work was preformed to activate the strain’s bioproduction of CRM A, an immunosuppressive drug lead with diverse bioactivities.Results: To well activate the expression of cam, ribosomal engineering was adopted to treat the wild type Actinoalloteichus sp. AHMU CJ021. The initial mutant strain XC-11G with gentamycin resistance and CRM A bioproduction titer of 42.51 ± 4.22 mg/L was selected from all generated mutant strains by gene expression comparison of the essential biosynthetic gene-camE. The titer of CRM A bioproduction was then improved by two strain breeding methods via UV mutagenesis and cofactor engineering-directed increasing of intracellular riboflavin, which finally generated the optimal mutant strain XC-11GUR with a CRM A bioproduction titer of 113.91 ± 7.58 mg/L. Subsequently, this titer of strain XC-11GUR was improved to 618.61 ± 16.29 mg/L through medium optimization together with further adjustment derived from response surface methodology. In terms of this 14.7 folds increase in the titer of CRM A compared to the initial value, strain XC-GUR could be a well alternative strain for CRM A development.Conclusions: Our results have constructed an ideal CRM A producer. More importantly, our efforts also have demonstrated the effectiveness of abovementioned combinatorial strategies, which is applicable to the genome mining of bioactive natural products from abundant actinomycetes strains.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronglu Yu ◽  
Jia Liu ◽  
Yi Wang ◽  
Hong Wang ◽  
Huawei Zhang

Aspergillus niger, one of the most common and important fungal species, is ubiquitous in various environments. A. niger isolates possess a large number of cryptic biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) and produce various biomolecules as secondary metabolites with a broad spectrum of application fields covering agriculture, food, and pharmaceutical industry. By extensive literature search, this review with a comprehensive summary on biological and chemical aspects of A. niger strains including their sources, BGCs, and secondary metabolites as well as biological properties and biosynthetic pathways is presented. Future perspectives on the discovery of more A. niger-derived functional biomolecules are also provided in this review.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunchang Xie ◽  
Jiawen Chen ◽  
Bo Wang ◽  
Tai Chen ◽  
Junyu Chen ◽  
...  

Abstract Backgrounds: Activation of silent biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) in marine-derived actinomycete strains is a feasible strategy to discover bioactive natural products. Actinoalloteichus sp. AHMU CJ021, isolated from the seashore, was shown to contain an intact but silent caerulomycin A (CRM A) BGC-cam in its genome. Thus, a genome mining work was preformed to activate the strain’s production of CRM A, an immunosuppressive drug lead with diverse bioactivities.Results: To well activate the expression of cam, ribosome engineering was adopted to treat the wild type Actinoalloteichus sp. AHMU CJ021. The initial mutant strain XC-11G with gentamycin resistance and CRM A production titer of 42.51 ± 4.22 mg/L was selected from all generated mutant strains by gene expression comparison of the essential biosynthetic gene-camE. The titer of CRM A production was then improved by two strain breeding methods via UV mutagenesis and cofactor engineering-directed increase of intracellular riboflavin, which finally generated the optimal mutant strain XC-11GUR with a CRM A production titer of 113.91 ± 7.58 mg/L. Subsequently, this titer of strain XC-11GUR was improved to 618.61 ± 16.29 mg/L through medium optimization together with further adjustment derived from response surface methodology. In terms of this 14.6 folds increase in the titer of CRM A compared to the initial value, strain XC-GUR could be a well alternative strain for CRM A development.Conclusions: Our results have constructed an ideal CRM A producer. More importantly, our efforts also have demonstrated the effectiveness of abovementioned combinatorial strategies, which is applicable to the genome mining of bioactive natural products from abundant actinomycetes strains.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunchang Xie ◽  
Jiawen Chen ◽  
Bo Wang ◽  
Tai Chen ◽  
Junyu Chen ◽  
...  

Abstract Backgrounds: Activation of silent biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) in marine-derived actinomycete strains is a feasible strategy to discover bioactive natural products. Actinoalloteichus sp. AHMU CJ021, isolated from the seashore, was shown to contain an intact but silent caerulomycin A (CRM A) BGC- cam in its genome. Thus, a genome mining work was preformed to activate the strain’s production of CRM A, an immunosuppressive drug lead with diverse bioactivities.Results: To well activate the expression of cam , ribosome engineering was adopted to treat the wild type Actinoalloteichus sp. AHMU CJ021. The initial mutant strain XC-11G with gentamycin resistance and CRM A production titer of 42.51 ± 4.22 mg/L was selected from all generated mutant strains by gene expression comparison of the essential biosynthetic gene-camE. The titer of CRM A production was then improved by two strain breeding methods via UV mutagenesis and cofactor engineering-directed increase of intracellular riboflavin, which finally generated the optimal mutant strain XC-11GUR with a CRM A production titer of 113.91 ± 7.58 mg/L. Subsequently, this titer of strain XC-11GUR was improved to 618.61 ± 16.29 mg/L through medium optimization together with further adjustment derived from response surface methodology. In terms of this 14.6 folds increase in the titer of CRM A compared to the initial value, strain XC-GUR could be a well alternative strain for CRM A development.Conclusions: Our results have constructed an ideal CRM A producer. More importantly, our efforts also have demonstrated the effectiveness of abovementioned combinatorial strategies, which is applicable to the genome mining of bioactive natural products from abundant actinomycetes strains.


Marine Drugs ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (12) ◽  
pp. 682 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaying Zhu ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
Zijun Liu ◽  
Hao Wang ◽  
Huawei Zhang

Marine sponge genus Haliclona, one of the most prolific sources of natural products, contains over 600 species but only a small part of them had been classified and chemically investigated. On the basis of extensive literature search, this review firstly summarizes 112 nitrogenous secondary metabolites from classified and unclassified Haliclona sponges as well as from their symbiotic microorganisms. Most of these substances have only been found in Haliclona sponges, and display diverse bioactive properties with potential applications in new drug discovery.


ChemInform ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. no-no
Author(s):  
Jeffrey C. Noro ◽  
John A. Kalaitzis ◽  
Brett A. Neilan

2003 ◽  
Vol 75 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 343-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Proksch ◽  
R. Ebel ◽  
R. A. Edrada ◽  
P. Schupp ◽  
W. H. Lin ◽  
...  

This review article presents our group's recent research findings with regard to bioactive natural products from marine sponges and tunicates, as well as from sponge derived fungi. The organisms discussed originate in the Indopacific region, which has an exceptionally rich marine biodiversity. Major topics that are covered in our review include the chemical ecology of sponges, focusing on defense against fishes, as well as the isolation and identification of new bioactive constituents from sponges and tunicates. Sponge derived fungi are introduced as an emerging source for new bioactive metabolites, reflecting the currently growing interest in natural products from marine microorganisms.


Marine Drugs ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
pp. 636
Author(s):  
Olga Morarescu ◽  
Marina Grinco ◽  
Veaceslav Kulciţki ◽  
Sergiu Shova ◽  
Nicon Ungur

Scalarane sesterterpenoids emerged as interesting bioactive natural products which were isolated extensively from marine sponges and shell-less mollusks. Some representatives were also reported recently from superior plants. Many scalarane sesterterpenoids displayed a wide spectrum of valuable properties, such as antifeedant, antimicrobial, antifungal, antitubercular, antitumor, anti-HIV properties, cytotoxicity and stimulation of nerve growth factor synthesis, as well as anti-inflammatory activity. Due to their important biological properties, many efforts have been undertaken towards the chemical synthesis of natural scalaranes. The main synthetic challenges are connected to their complex polycyclic framework, chiral centers and different functional groups, in particular the oxygenated functional groups at the C-12 position, which are prerequisites of the biological activity of many investigated scalaranes. The current work addresses this problem and the synthesis of 17-oxo-20-norscalaran-12α,19-O-lactone is described. It was performed via the 12α-hydroxy-ent-isocopal-13(14)-en-15-al obtained from (-)-sclareol as an accessible starting material. The tetracyclic lactone framework was built following an addition strategy, which includes the intramolecular Michael addition of a diterpenic acetoacetic ester and an intramolecular aldol condensation reaction as key synthetic steps. The structure and stereochemistry of the target compound have been proven by X-Ray diffraction method.


2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 2077-2095 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffery C. Noro ◽  
John A. Kalaitzis ◽  
Brett A. Neilan

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