TY - JOUR A1 - Abdelmohsen, Usama Ramadan A1 - Pimentel-Elardo, Sheila M. A1 - Hanora, Amro A1 - Radwan, Mona A1 - Abou-El-Ela, Soad H. A1 - Ahmed, Safwat A1 - Hentschel, Ute T1 - Isolation, Phylogenetic Analysis and Anti-infective Activity Screening of Marine Sponge-Associated Actinomycetes N2 - Terrestrial actinomycetes are noteworthy producers of a multitude of antibiotics, however the marine representatives are much less studied in this regard. In this study, 90 actinomycetes were isolated from 11 different species of marine sponges that had been collected from offshore Ras Mohamed (Egypt) and from Rovinj (Croatia). Phylogenetic characterization of the isolates based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing supported their assignment to 18 different actinomycete genera representing seven different suborders. Fourteen putatively novel species were identified based on sequence similarity values below 98.2% to other strains in the NCBI database. A putative new genus related to Rubrobacter was isolated on M1 agar that had been amended with sponge extract, thus highlighting the need for innovative cultivation protocols. Testing for anti-infective activities was performed against clinically relevant, Gram-positive (Enterococcus faecalis, Staphylococcus aureus) and Gram-negative (Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa) bacteria, fungi (Candida albicans) and human parasites (Leishmania major, Trypanosoma brucei). Bioactivities against these pathogens were documented for 10 actinomycete isolates. These results show a high diversity of actinomycetes associated with marine sponges as well as highlight their potential to produce anti-infective agents. KW - Biologie KW - actinomycetes KW - marine sponges KW - anti-infective KW - anti-parasitic KW - phylogenetic Y1 - 2010 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-68307 ER - TY - THES A1 - Abdelmohsen, Usama Ramadan T1 - Antimicrobial Activities from Plant Cell Cultures and Marine Sponge-Associated Actinomycetes T1 - Antimikrobielle Aktivitäten aus Pflanzenzellkulturen und marinen Schwamm-assoziierten Actinomyceten N2 - This thesis is divided into three parts with the main goal allocating novel antimicrobial compounds that could be used as future antibiotics. The first part aimed to evaluate the potential of plant suspension cultures for the production of antimicrobial proteins. The extracellular, intracellular and cell wall bound fractions of seven heterotrophic and photomixotrophic plant cell suspension cultures treated with nine different elicitors were tested for the elicitor dependent production of antimicrobial proteins. Bioactivities were tested against a selected panel of human isolates including Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria as well as fungi using the disc diffusion assay. The intracellular fractions of elicited cell cultures were more active than extracellular fractions while the cell wall bound fractions showed lowest activities. Among the 21 fractions tested, the intracellular fraction of Lavendula angustifolia elicited with DC3000 was most active against Candida maltosa. The second most active fraction was the intracellular fraction of Arabidopsis thaliana elicited with salicylic acid which was moreover active against all test strains. The antimicrobial activity of elicited Arabidopsis thaliana cell cultures was tested by bioautography to locate the antimicrobial proteins in the crude extract. The intracellular fraction of photomixotrophic Arabidopsis thaliana cells elicited with salicylic acid was selected for further gel filtration chromatography on S-200 column leading to the purification of one 19 kDa antimicrobially active protein, designated, AtAMP. Our findings suggest that elicited plant cell cultures may present a new promising alternative source of antimicrobial proteins. The second part comprises the isolation of actinomycetes associated with marine sponges and testing the bioactivities of new species for further investigations. Actinobacterial communities of eleven taxonomically different sponges that had been collected from offshore Ras Mohamed (Egypt) and from Rovinj (Croatia) were investigated by a culture-based approach using different standard media for isolation of actinomycetes and media enriched with aqueous sponge extract to target rare and new actinomycete species. Phylogenetic characterization of 52 representative isolates out of 90 based on almost complete sequences of genes encoding 16S rRNA supported their assignment to 18 different actinomycete genera. Altogether 14 putatively new species were identified based on sequence similarity values below 98.2% to other strains in the NCBI database. The use of M1 agar amended with aqueous sponge extract yielded a putative new genus related to Rubrobacter which highlighting the need for innovative cultivation protocols. Biological activity testing showed that five isolates were active against Gram-positives only, one isolate was active against Candida albicans only and one isolate showed activity against both groups of pathogens. Moreover, the antiparasistic activity was documented for four isolates. These results showed a high diversity of actinomycetes associated with marine sponges as well as highlighted their potential to produce anti-infective agents. The third part of the thesis focused on the isolation and structure elucidation of new bioactive compounds. Streptomyces strain RV15 recovered from sponge Dysidea tupha, was selected for further chemical analysis by virtue of the fact that it exhibited the greatest antimicrobial potential against Staphylococcus aureus as well as Candida albicans among the all tested strains. Moreover, members of the genus Streptomyces are well known as prolific producers of interesting pharmacologically active metabolites. Chemical analysis of the methanolic crude extract using different chromatographic tools yielded four new compounds. The structures of the new compounds were spectroscopically elucidated to be four new cyclic peptides, namely, cyclodysidins A-D. Their bioactivity was tested against different proteases, bacteria and Candida as well as tumor cell lines. The compounds did not show any significant activities at this point. N2 - Die hier vorliegende Dissertation ist in drei Kapitel gegliedert und hatte die Bereitstellung neuer antimikrobieller Substanzen, die zukünftig als Antibiotika genutzt werden könnten, zum Hauptziel. Das erste Kapitel befasst sich mit dem Potenzial von Pflanzen zur Produktion von Proteinen mit antimikrobieller Wirkung. Pflanzenzellkulturen wurden mit neun verschiedenen Induktoren stimuliert und anschließend auf die Produktion von Proteinen mit antimikrobieller Wirkung hin untersucht. Dafür wurden die extra-, intrazellulären sowie die membrangebundenen Proteinfraktionen von sieben heterotrophen und photomixotrophen Pflanzenzellkulturen extrahiert. Mittels Diffusionstests wurden die Wirkung der Proteine gegen eine Sammlung menschlicher Pathogene inklusive Gram-positiver und Gram-negativer Bakterien, sowie Pilze getestet. Die intrazellulären Fraktionen zeigten dabei höhere Aktivitäten als die extrazellulären, wohingegen die membrangebundenen Proteine die geringsten Aktivitäten aufwiesen. Von den insgesamt 21 getesteten Proteinfraktionen wies die mit DC3000 induzierte intrazelluläre Fraktion von Lavendula angustifolia die größte Wirkung gegen Candida maltosa auf. Die mit Salicylsäure induzierte intrazelluläre Proteinfraktion von Arabidopsis thaliana zeigte eine Hemmung aller getesteten pathogenen Stämme. Die antimikrobielle Aktivität der induzierten Arabidopsis thaliana-Zellkultur wurde mittels Bioautography weiter untersucht, um das wirksame Protein im Gesamt-(Roh-) extrakt einzugrenzen. Die intrazelluläre Fraktion der photomixotrophen Arabidopsis thaliana-Zellkultur wurde ausgewählt, um ein 19 kDa Protein mit antimikrobieller Wirkung, genannt AtAMP, mittels Gelfitrationschromatography über eine S-200 Säule aufzureinigen. Unsere Ergebnisse weisen darauf hin, dass induzierte Pflanzenzellkulturen zukünftig als aussichtsreiche alternative Quelle für antimikrobiell wirksame Proteine herangezogen werden können. Der zweite Teil dieser Dissertation beinhaltet die Isolation von mit marinen Schwämmen assoziierten Actinomyceten und deren Testung auf Bioaktivität. Aus 11 taxonomisch verschiedenen, an den Küsten von Ras Mohamed (Ägypten) und Rovinj (Kroatien) gesammelten Schwammspezies, wurden Actinobakterien auf verschiedenen Standardmedien kultiviert. Um seltene, neue Stämme zu isolieren, wurden diese Medien mit wässrigen Schwammextrakten angereichert. Die auf der 16S rRNA-Gensequenz basierenden phylogenetischen Charakterisierung von 52 der insgesamt 90 Isolate, zeigte die Zugehörigkeit zu 18 verschiedenen Actinomyceten-Gattungen. Die 16S rRNA-Gene von 14 Isolaten zeigten Homologien von weniger als 98,2% zu denen anderer in Datenbanken abgelegten Bakterien und stellen somit vermutlich neue Arten dar. Die Verwendung von mit Schwammextrakt angereichertem M1-Agar resultierte in der Kultivierung einer mutmaßlich neuen, mit Rubrobacter verwandten Gattung und bestätigt die Notwendigkeit der Entwicklung neuer innovativer Kultivierungsprotokolle. Aktivitätstests von fünf Isolaten zeigten deren hemmende Wirkung nur gegen Gram-positive Bakterien, ein Isolat zeigte Aktivität nur gegen Candida albicans und ein Isolat war wirksam gegen beide genannten Pathogengruppen. Desweiteren konnten antiparasitäre Wirkungen von vier Isolaten dokumentiert werden. Die hier beschriebenen Ergebnisse zeigen die große Diversität von mit Schwämmen assoziierten Actinomyceten und deren Potential Antiinfektiva zu produzieren. Der dritte Teil dieser Arbeit fokussierte sich auf die Isolation und Strukturaufklärung neuer bioaktiver Substanzen. Streptomyceten sind bekannt für die Produktion von interessanten, pharmakologisch aktiven Metaboliten. Der aus dem Schwamm Dysidea tupha isolierte Stamm Streptomyces RV 15 zeigte eine hohe Aktivität gegen Staphylococcus aureus und C. albicans und wurde deshalb für nähere Untersuchungen ausgewählt. Die chemische Analyse des Methanol-Rohextrakts unter der Verwendung verschiedener Chromatographie-Verfahren resultierte in der Isolation von vier Substanzen. Die spektroskopische Analyse zeigte, dass diese neuen Substanzen zyklische Peptidstrukturen aufweisen und wurden daraufhin als Cyclodysidin A-D benannt. Die Bioaktivitäten dieser Substanzen wurden gegen verschiedene Proteasen, Bakterien und Candida sowie gegen verschiedene Tumorzelllinien getestet. Bis zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt zeigte keine der getesteten Peptide eine aussagekräftige Wirkung. KW - Antimikrobieller Wirkstoff KW - Pflanzenzelle KW - Zellkultur KW - Antimikrobielle Aktivitäten KW - Pflanzenzellkulturen KW - Proteinen mit antimikrobieller Wirkung KW - Actinomyceten KW - zyklische Peptide KW - Antimicrobial activities KW - Plant cell cultures KW - Antimicrobial proteins KW - Actinomycetes KW - Cyclic peptides Y1 - 2010 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-51483 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cheng, Cheng A1 - MacIntyre, Lynsey A1 - Ramadan Abdelmohsen, Usama A1 - Horn, Hannes A1 - Polymenakou, Paraskevi N. A1 - Edrada-Ebel, RuAngelie A1 - Hentschel, Ute T1 - Biodiversity, Anti-Trypanosomal Activity Screening, and Metabolomic Profiling of Actinomycetes Isolated from Mediterranean Sponges JF - PLoS One N2 - Marine sponge–associated actinomycetes are considered as promising sources for the discovery of novel biologically active compounds. In the present study, a total of 64 actinomycetes were isolated from 12 different marine sponge species that had been collected offshore the islands of Milos and Crete, Greece, eastern Mediterranean. The isolates were affiliated to 23 genera representing 8 different suborders based on nearly full length 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Four putatively novel species belonging to genera Geodermatophilus, Microlunatus, Rhodococcus and Actinomycetospora were identified based on a 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity of < 98.5% to currently described strains. Eight actinomycete isolates showed bioactivities against Trypanosma brucei brucei TC221 with half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) values <20 μg/mL. Thirty four isolates from the Milos collection and 12 isolates from the Crete collection were subjected to metabolomic analysis using high resolution LC-MS and NMR for dereplication purposes. Two isolates belonging to the genera Streptomyces (SBT348) and Micromonospora (SBT687) were prioritized based on their distinct chemistry profiles as well as their anti-trypanosomal activities. These findings demonstrated the feasibility and efficacy of utilizing metabolomics tools to prioritize chemically unique strains from microorganism collections and further highlight sponges as rich source for novel and bioactive actinomycetes. KW - streptomyces KW - drug metabolism KW - metabolites KW - ribosomal RNA KW - metabolomics KW - actinobacteria KW - sponges KW - secondary metabolites Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-125138 VL - 10 IS - 9 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Horn, Hannes A1 - Hentschel, Ute A1 - Ramadan Abdelmohsen, Usama T1 - Mining Genomes of Three Marine Sponge-Associated Actinobacterial Isolates for Secondary Metabolism JF - Genome Announcements N2 - Here, we report the draft genome sequences of three actinobacterial isolates, Micromonospora sp. RV43, Rubrobacter sp. RV113, and Nocardiopsis sp. RV163 that had previously been isolated from Mediterranean sponges. The draft genomes were analyzed for the presence of gene clusters indicative of secondary metabolism using antiSMASH 3.0 and NapDos pipelines. Our findings demonstrated the chemical richness of sponge-associated actinomycetes and the efficacy of genome mining in exploring the genomic potential of sponge-derived actinomycetes. Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-124887 VL - 3 IS - 5 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Abdelmohsen, Usama Ramadan A1 - Cheng, Cheng A1 - Viegelmann, Christina A1 - Zhang, Tong A1 - Grkovic, Tanja A1 - Ahmed, Safwat A1 - Quinn, Ronald J. A1 - Hentschel, Ute A1 - Edrada-Ebel, RuAngelie T1 - Dereplication Strategies for Targeted Isolation of New Antitrypanosomal Actinosporins A and B from a Marine Sponge Associated-Actinokineospora sp EG49 JF - Marine Drugs N2 - High resolution Fourier transform mass spectrometry (HRFTMS) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy were employed as complementary metabolomic tools to dereplicate the chemical profile of the new and antitrypanosomally active sponge-associated bacterium Actinokineospora sp. EG49 extract. Principal Component (PCA), hierarchical clustering (HCA), and orthogonal partial least square-discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) were used to evaluate the HRFTMS and NMR data of crude extracts from four different fermentation approaches. Statistical analysis identified the best culture one-strain-many-compounds (OSMAC) condition and extraction procedure, which was used for the isolation of novel bioactive metabolites. As a result, two new O-glycosylated angucyclines, named actinosporins A (1) and B (2), were isolated from the broth culture of Actinokineospora sp. strain EG49, which was cultivated from the Red Sea sponge Spheciospongia vagabunda. The structures of actinosporins A and B were determined by 1D- and 2D-NMR techniques, as well as high resolution tandem mass spectrometry. Testing for antiparasitic properties showed that actinosporin A exhibited activity against Trypanosoma brucei brucei with an IC₅₀ value of 15 µM; however no activity was detected against Leishmania major and Plasmodium falciparum, therefore suggesting its selectivity against the parasite Trypanosoma brucei brucei; the causative agent of sleeping sickness. KW - dereplication KW - secondary metabolomics KW - anti-trypanosoma KW - Actinokineospora KW - Spheciospongia vagabunda KW - actinosporins Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-119876 SN - 1660-3397 VL - 12 IS - 3 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Oli, Swarna A1 - Abdelmohsen, Usama Ramadan A1 - Hentschel, Ute A1 - Schirmeister, Tanja T1 - Identification of Plakortide E from the Caribbean Sponge Plakortis halichondroides as a Trypanocidal Protease Inhibitor using Bioactivity-Guided Fractionation JF - MARINE DRUGS N2 - In this paper, we report new protease inhibitory activity of plakortide E towards cathepsins and cathepsin-like parasitic proteases. We further report on its anti-parasitic activity against Trypanosoma brucei with an IC50 value of 5 mu M and without cytotoxic effects against J774.1 macrophages at 100 mu M concentration. Plakortide E was isolated from the sponge Plakortis halichondroides using enzyme assay-guided fractionation and identified by NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. Furthermore, enzyme kinetic studies confirmed plakortide E as a non-competitive, slowly-binding, reversible inhibitor of rhodesain. KW - plakortis halichondroides KW - plakortide E. KW - protease inhibitor KW - slowly-binding reversible inhibitor KW - cathepsin KW - trypanosoma brucei KW - cysteine protease KW - malaria parasites KW - cathepsin-L KW - in-vitro KW - rhodesain Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-116536 SN - 1660-3397 VL - 12 IS - 5 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 - Macintyre, Lynsey A1 - Zhang, Tong A1 - Viegelmann, Christina A1 - Martinez, Ignacio Juarez A1 - Cheng, Cheng A1 - Dowdells, Catherine A1 - Abdelmohsen, Usama Ramadan A1 - Gernert, Christine A1 - Hentschel, Ute A1 - Edrada-Ebel, RuAngelie T1 - Metabolomic Tools for Secondary Metabolite Discovery from Marine Microbial Symbionts JF - Marine Drugs N2 - Marine invertebrate-associated symbiotic bacteria produce a plethora of novel secondary metabolites which may be structurally unique with interesting pharmacological properties. Selection of strains usually relies on literature searching, genetic screening and bioactivity results, often without considering the chemical novelty and abundance of secondary metabolites being produced by the microorganism until the time-consuming bioassay-guided isolation stages. To fast track the selection process, metabolomic tools were used to aid strain selection by investigating differences in the chemical profiles of 77 bacterial extracts isolated from cold water marine invertebrates from Orkney, Scotland using liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Following mass spectrometric analysis and dereplication using an Excel macro developed in-house, principal component analysis (PCA) was employed to differentiate the bacterial strains based on their chemical profiles. NMR H-1 and correlation spectroscopy (COSY) were also employed to obtain a chemical fingerprint of each bacterial strain and to confirm the presence of functional groups and spin systems. These results were then combined with taxonomic identification and bioassay screening data to identify three bacterial strains, namely Bacillus sp. 4117, Rhodococcus sp. ZS402 and Vibrio splendidus strain LGP32, to prioritize for scale-up based on their chemically interesting secondary metabolomes, established through dereplication and interesting bioactivities, determined from bioassay screening. KW - multivariate analysis KW - metabolic profiling KW - metabolomics KW - dereplication KW - symbiotic bacteria KW - mass spectrometry KW - NMR KW - sponge holicolona-simulans KW - bryozoan bugula-neritina KW - polyketide synthase gene Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-116097 SN - 1660-3397 VL - 12 IS - 6 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 - TY - JOUR A1 - Harjes, Janno A1 - Ryu, Taewoo A1 - Abdelmohsen, Usama Ramadan A1 - Moitinho-Silva, Lucas A1 - Horn, Hannes A1 - Ravasi, Timothy A1 - Hentschel, Ute T1 - Draft Genome Sequence of the Antitrypanosomally Active Sponge-Associated Bacterium Actinokineospora sp. Strain EG49 N2 - The marine sponge-associated bacterium Actinokineospora sp. strain EG49 produces the antitrypanosomal angucycline-like compound actinosporin A. The draft genome of Actinokineospora sp. EG49 has a size of 7.5 megabases and a GC content of 72.8% and contains 6,629 protein-coding sequences (CDS). antiSMASH predicted 996 genes residing in 36 secondary metabolite gene clusters. KW - Strahlenpilze Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-112776 ER -