TY  - JOUR
A1  - El-Hossary, Ebaa M.
A1  - Abdel-Halim, Mohammad
A1  - Ibrahim, Eslam S.
A1  - Pimentel-Elardo, Sheila Marie
A1  - Nodwell, Justin R.
A1  - Handoussa, Heba
A1  - Abdelwahab, Miada F.
A1  - Holzgrabe, Ulrike
A1  - Abdelmohsen, Usama Ramadan
T1  - Natural Products Repertoire of the Red Sea
JF  - Marine Drugs
N2  - Marine natural products have achieved great success as an important source of new lead compounds for drug discovery. The Red Sea provides enormous diversity on the biological scale in all domains of life including micro- and macro-organisms. In this review, which covers the literature to the end of 2019, we summarize the diversity of bioactive secondary metabolites derived from Red Sea micro- and macro-organisms, and discuss their biological potential whenever applicable. Moreover, the diversity of the Red Sea organisms is highlighted as well as their genomic potential. This review is a comprehensive study that compares the natural products recovered from the Red Sea in terms of ecological role and pharmacological activities.
KW  - Red Sea
KW  - marine natural products
KW  - marine organisms
KW  - biodiversity
KW  - marine metagenomics
KW  - bioactivity
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-213110
SN  - 1660-3397
VL  - 18
IS  - 9
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dashti, Yousef
A1  - Grkovic, Tanja
A1  - Abdelmohsen, Usama Ramadan
A1  - Hentschel, Ute
A1  - Quinn, Ronald J.
T1  - Production of Induced Secondary Metabolites by a Co-Culture of Sponge-Associated Actinomycetes, Actinokineospora sp EG49 and Nocardiopsis sp RV163
JF  - MARINE DRUGS
N2  - Two sponge-derived actinomycetes, Actinokineospora sp. EG49 and Nocardiopsis sp. RV163, were grown in co-culture and the presence of induced metabolites monitored by H-1 NMR. Ten known compounds, including angucycline, diketopiperazine and beta-carboline derivatives 1-10, were isolated from the EtOAc extracts of Actinokineospora sp. EG49 and Nocardiopsis sp. RV163. Co-cultivation of Actinokineospora sp. EG49 and Nocardiopsis sp. RV163 induced the biosynthesis of three natural products that were not detected in the single culture of either microorganism, namely N-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-acetamide (11), 1,6-dihydroxyphenazine (12) and 5a, 6,11a, 12-tetrahydro-5a, 11a-dimethyl[1,4]benzoxazino[3,2-b][1,4]benzoxazine (13a). When tested for biological activity against a range of bacteria and parasites, only the phenazine 12 was active against Bacillus sp. P25, Trypanosoma brucei and interestingly, against Actinokineospora sp. EG49. These findings highlight the co-cultivation approach as an effective strategy to access the bioactive secondary metabolites hidden in the genomes of marine actinomycetes.
KW  - co-cultivation
KW  - induced metabolites
KW  - sponge-associated actinomyetes
KW  - NMR fingerprint
KW  - bioactivity
KW  - natural products
KW  - A-D
KW  - aspergillus fumigatus
KW  - marine
KW  - biosynthesis
Y1  - 2014
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-116547
SN  - 1660-3397
VL  - 12
IS  - 5
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Abdelmohsen, Usama Ramadan
A1  - Yang, Chen
A1  - Horn, Hannes
A1  - Hajjar, Dina
A1  - Ravasi, Timothy
A1  - Hentschel, Ute
T1  - Actinomycetes from Red Sea Sponges: Sources for Chemical and Phylogenetic Diversity
N2  - The diversity of actinomycetes associated with marine sponges collected off Fsar Reef (Saudi Arabia) was investigated in the present study. Forty-seven actinomycetes were cultivated and phylogenetically identified based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing and were assigned to 10 different actinomycete genera. Eight putatively novel species belonging to genera Kocuria, Mycobacterium, Nocardia, and Rhodococcus were identified based on sequence similarity values below 98.2% to other 16S rRNA gene sequences available in the NCBI database. PCR-based screening for biosynthetic genes including type I and type II polyketide synthases (PKS-I, PKS-II) as well as nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS) showed that 20 actinomycete isolates encoded each at least one type of biosynthetic gene. The organic extracts of nine isolates displayed bioactivity against at least one of the test pathogens, which were Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, fungi, human parasites, as well as in a West Nile Virus protease enzymatic assay. These results emphasize that marine sponges are a prolific resource for novel bioactive actinomycetes with potential for drug discovery.
KW  - PKS I
KW  - Meeresschwämme
KW  - PKS II
KW  - NRPS
KW  - Red sea
KW  - sponges
KW  - actinomycetes
KW  - bioactivity
Y1  - 2014
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-112882
ER  -