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  - Pimentel-Elardo, Sheila Marie
A1  - Grozdanov, Lubomir
A1  - Proksch, Sebastian
A1  - Hentschel, Ute
T1  - Diversity of Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetase Genes in the Microbial Metagenomes of Marine Sponges
N2  - Genomic mining revealed one major nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) phylogenetic cluster in 12 marine sponge species, one ascidian, an actinobacterial isolate and seawater. Phylogenetic analysis predicts its taxonomic affiliation to the actinomycetes and hydroxy-phenyl-glycine as a likely substrate. Additionally, a phylogenetically distinct NRPS gene cluster was discovered in the microbial metagenome of the sponge Aplysina aerophoba, which shows highest similarities to NRPS genes that were previously assigned, by ways of single cell genomics, to a Chloroflexi sponge symbiont. Genomic mining studies such as the one presented here for NRPS genes, contribute to on-going efforts to characterize the genomic potential of sponge-associated microbiota for secondary metabolite biosynthesis.
KW  - Biologie
KW  - nonribosomal peptide synthetase
KW  - NRPS
KW  - marine sponge
KW  - Porifera
KW  - metagenomics
Y1  - 2012
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-75990
ER  -