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Inducible ASABF-Type Antimicrobial Peptide from the Sponge Suberites domuncula: Microbicidal and Hemolytic Activity in Vitro and Toxic Effect on Moll…

2011

Since sponges, as typical filter-feeders, are exposed to a high load of attacking prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms, they are armed with a wide arsenal of antimicrobial/cytostatic low-molecular-weight, non-proteinaceous bioactive compounds. Here we present the first sponge agent belonging to the group of ASABF-type antimicrobial peptides. The ASABF gene was identified and cloned from the demospongeSuberites domuncula. The mature peptide, with a length of 64 aa residues has a predicted pI of 9.24, and comprises the characteristic CSαβ structural motif. Consequently, the S. domuncula ASABF shares high similarity with the nematode ASABFs ; it is distantly related to the defensins. The recom…

ASABFAntimicrobial peptidesGastropodaMolecular Sequence DataPharmaceutical SciencePeptideMicrobial Sensitivity TestsGram-Positive BacteriaReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionArticleMicrobiology03 medical and health sciencesantimicrobial peptidesAnti-Infective AgentsSequence Analysis ProteinDrug DiscoveryAnimalsBittium sp.Structural motiflcsh:QH301-705.5Pharmacology Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous)spongesPhylogeny030304 developmental biologychemistry.chemical_classification0303 health sciencesbiology030306 microbiologyEffectorHemolytic AgentsapoptosisGeologyBittium spsponges; <em>Suberites domuncula</em>; ASABF; antimicrobial peptides; apoptosis; <em>Bittium</em> sp.biology.organism_classificationSuberites domunculasponges ; Suberites domuncula ; ASABF ; antimicrobial peptides ; apoptosis ; Bittium sp.Recombinant ProteinsSuberites domunculaSpongeEnzymelcsh:Biology (General)chemistryMolluscaSuberitesSuberitesAntimicrobial Cationic PeptidesMarine Drugs
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Epibiont communities of loggerhead marine turtles (Caretta caretta) in the western Mediterranean: influence of geographic and ecological factors

2014

This study reports for the first time on the whole epibiont fauna of loggerhead marine turtles,Caretta caretta, in the western Mediterranean, analysing the factors that account for the predictability and composition of the assemblage. A total of 104 loggerhead turtles stranded along the coasts of eastern Spain during 1995–2006 were surveyed for epibionts. A total of 39 epibiont taxa were identified, three of them being new records for loggerhead turtles:Bittiumsp.,Idotea metallicaandJassasp. The assemblage was composed of a group of 27 facultative taxa that use turtles as any inanimate buoyant substrate, and 12 taxa that have developed more specific associations to marine turtles, including…

Mediterranean climateFacultativeTaxonbiologyEcologyFaunaPelagic zoneAquatic ScienceEpibiontbiology.organism_classificationBittiumJassaJournal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
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