Enzymatic halogenation and dehalogenation reactions: pervasive and mechanistically diverse

V Agarwal, ZD Miles, JM Winter, AS Eustáquio… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Naturally produced halogenated compounds are ubiquitous across all domains of life where
they perform a multitude of biological functions and adopt a diversity of chemical structures …

An overview on marine sponge-symbiotic bacteria as unexhausted sources for natural product discovery

CM Brinkmann, A Marker, DI Kurtböke - Diversity, 2017 - mdpi.com
Microbial symbiotic communities of marine macro-organisms carry functional metabolic
profiles different to the ones found terrestrially and within surrounding marine environments …

Terpene biosynthesis in marine sponge animals

K Wilson, T de Rond, I Burkhardt… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Sea sponges are the largest marine source of small-molecule natural products described to
date. Sponge-derived molecules, such as the chemotherapeutic eribulin, the calcium …

Ecological niche-inspired genome mining leads to the discovery of crop-protecting nonribosomal lipopeptides featuring a transient amino acid building block

S Götze, R Vij, K Burow, N Thome… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Investigating the ecological context of microbial predator–prey interactions enables the
identification of microorganisms, which produce multiple secondary metabolites to evade …

Insights into the lifestyle of uncultured bacterial natural product factories associated with marine sponges

G Lackner, EE Peters… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The as-yet uncultured filamentous bacteria “Candidatus Entotheonella factor” and
“Candidatus Entotheonella gemina” live associated with the marine sponge Theonella …

Bacteria as genetically programmable producers of bioactive natural products

JJ Hug, D Krug, R Müller - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Next to plants, bacteria account for most of the biomass on Earth. They are found
everywhere, although certain species thrive only in specific ecological niches. These …

Metagenomic Exploration of the Marine Sponge Mycale hentscheli Uncovers Multiple Polyketide-Producing Bacterial Symbionts

MA Storey, SK Andreassend, J Bracegirdle, A Brown… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Marine sponges have been a prolific source of unique bioactive compounds that are
presumed to act as a deterrent to predation. Many of these compounds have potential …

Radical S-Adenosylmethionine Enzymes Involved in RiPP Biosynthesis

N Mahanta, GA Hudson, DA Mitchell - Biochemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) display a
diverse range of structures and continue to expand as a natural product class. Accordingly …

Enhanced Solubilization of Class B Radical S-Adenosylmethionine Methylases by Improved Cobalamin Uptake in Escherichia coli

ND Lanz, AJ Blaszczyk, EL McCarthy, B Wang… - Biochemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
The methylation of unactivated carbon and phosphorus centers is a burgeoning area of
biological chemistry, especially given that such reactions constitute key steps in the …

Characterization of a thaumarchaeal symbiont that drives incomplete nitrification in the tropical sponge Ianthella basta

FU Moeller, NS Webster, CW Herbold… - Environmental …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Marine sponges represent one of the few eukaryotic groups that frequently harbour
symbiotic members of the Thaumarchaeota, which are important chemoautotrophic …