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ReviewMarine drugs2010

Marine drugs from sponge-microbe association--a review.

Tresa Remya A Thomas, Devanand P Kavlekar, Ponnapakkam A LokaBharathi

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Review in Marine drugs, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 161 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

161 citing papers in PubMed.

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  20. Alternaria alternata (SDHY01/02), a fungus associated with Lamellodysidea herbacea: its anticancer potential and responsible constituent(s).International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Tresa Remya A ThomasBiological Oceanography, National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, Pin-403004, India. remyat@nio.org
Devanand P Kavlekar
Ponnapakkam A LokaBharathi

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The subject of this review is the biodiversity of marine sponges and associated microbes which have been reported to produce therapeutically important compounds, along with the contextual information on their geographic distribution. Class Demospongiae and the orders Halichondrida, Poecilosclerida and Dictyoceratida are the richest sources of these compounds. Among the microbial associates, members of the bacterial phylum Actinobacteria and fungal division Ascomycota have been identified to be the dominant producers of therapeutics. Though the number of bacterial associates outnumber the fungal associates, the documented potential of fungi to produce clinically active compounds is currently more important than that of bacteria. Interestingly, production of a few identical compounds by entirely different host-microbial associations has been detected in both terrestrial and marine environments. In the Demospongiae, microbial association is highly specific and so to the production of compounds. Besides, persistent production of bioactive compounds has also been encountered in highly specific host-symbiont associations. Though spatial and temporal variations are known to have a marked effect on the quality and quantity of bioactive compounds, only a few studies have covered these dimensions. The need to augment production of these compounds through tissue culture and mariculture has also been stressed. The reviewed database of these compounds is available at www.niobioinformatics.in/drug.php.

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AnimalsBacteriaBiodiversityBiological ProductsDrug DesignFungiHumansPoriferaTissue Culture TechniquesBiological Productsbioactive compoundsmarine drugsmicrobial symbiontssponges

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PMCPMC2866492

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