Ecological and biotechnological importance of secondary metabolites produced by coral‐associated bacteria

F Modolon, AR Barno, HDM Villela… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Symbiotic relationships between corals and their associated micro‐organisms are essential
to maintain host homeostasis. Coral‐associated bacteria (CAB) can have different beneficial …

Chemical and genomic characterization of a potential probiotic treatment for stony coral tissue loss disease

B Ushijima, SP Gunasekera, JL Meyer, J Tittl… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Considered one of the most devastating coral disease outbreaks in history, stony coral
tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is currently spreading throughout Florida's coral reefs and the …

Chemical ecology of marine sponges: new opportunities through “-omics”

VJ Paul, CJ Freeman, V Agarwal - Integrative and comparative …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The chemical ecology and chemical defenses of sponges have been investigated for
decades; consequently, sponges are among the best understood marine organisms in terms …

Marine Chitinolytic Pseudoalteromonas Represents an Untapped Reservoir of Bioactive Potential

SS Paulsen, ML Strube, PK Bech, L Gram… - Msystems, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Chitin is the most abundant polymer in the marine environment and a nutrient-rich surface
for adhering marine bacteria. We have previously shown that chitin can induce the …

A modular plasmid toolkit applied in marine bacteria reveals functional insights during bacteria-stimulated metamorphosis

AT Alker, MV Farrell, AE Aspiras, TL Dunbar… - MBio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT A conspicuous roadblock to studying marine bacteria for fundamental research
and biotechnology is a lack of modular synthetic biology tools for their genetic manipulation …

Rhodococcus comparative genomics reveals a phylogenomic-dependent non-ribosomal peptide synthetase distribution: insights into biosynthetic gene cluster …

A Undabarrena, R Valencia, A Cumsille… - Microbial …, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
Natural products (NPs) are synthesized by biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs), whose genes
are involved in producing one or a family of chemically related metabolites. Advances in …

Genetic examination of the marine bacterium Pseudoalteromonas luteoviolacea and effects of its metamorphosis‐inducing factors

AT Alker, N Delherbe, TN Purdy… - Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Pseudoalteromonas luteoviolacea is a globally distributed marine bacterium that stimulates
the metamorphosis of marine animal larvae, an important bacteria–animal interaction that …

Comparative and Functional Analyses Reveal Conserved and Variable Regulatory Systems That Control Lasalocid Biosynthesis in Different Streptomyces Species

M Liu, K Wang, J Wei, N Liu, G Niu, H Tan… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Lasalocid, a representative polyether ionophore, has been successfully applied in veterinary
medicine and animal husbandry and also displays promising potential for cancer therapy …

Genome‐based taxonomic analysis of the genus Pseudoalteromonas reveals heterotypic synonyms

P Videau, MD Shlafstein, DK Oline… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The Pseudoalteromonas genus comprises members that have been demonstrated to play
significant ecological roles and produce enzymes, natural products, and activities that are …

Sources and pathways of halomethoxybenzenes in northern Baltic estuaries

T Bidleman, K Agosta, A Andersson… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Thousands of halogenated natural products (HNPs) are generated in the ocean
and on land. A subset of these, halomethoxybenzenes (HMBs), are released from both …