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ArticleMarine drugs2014

Characterisation of non-autoinducing tropodithietic Acid (TDA) production from marine sponge Pseudovibrio species.

Catriona Harrington, F Jerry Reen, Marlies J Mooij, Fiona A Stewart, Jean-Baptiste Chabot, Antonio F Guerra, Frank O Glöckner, Kristian F Nielsen, Lone Gram, Alan D W Dobson and 2 more

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Article in Marine drugs, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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12 authors.

Catriona HarringtonBIOMERIT Research Centre, School of Microbiology, University College Cork-National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland. catriona.harrington@gmail.com.
F Jerry ReenBIOMERIT Research Centre, School of Microbiology, University College Cork-National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland. J.Reen@ucc.ie.
Marlies J MooijBIOMERIT Research Centre, School of Microbiology, University College Cork-National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland. marlies.mooij@mumc.nl.
Fiona A StewartBIOMERIT Research Centre, School of Microbiology, University College Cork-National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland. fiona.stewart204@gmail.com.
Jean-Baptiste ChabotBIOMERIT Research Centre, School of Microbiology, University College Cork-National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland. jeanba-cha@hotmail.fr.
Antonio F GuerraMicrobial Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen D-28359, Germany. afernand@mpi-bremen.de.
Frank O GlöcknerMicrobial Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen D-28359, Germany. fog@mpi-bremen.de.
Kristian F NielsenDepartment of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark. kfn@bio.dtu.dk.
Lone GramDepartment of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark. gram@bio.dtu.dk.
Alan D W DobsonEnvironmental Research Institute, University College Cork-National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland. a.dobson@ucc.ie.
Claire AdamsBIOMERIT Research Centre, School of Microbiology, University College Cork-National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland. c.adams@ucc.ie.
Fergal O'GaraBIOMERIT Research Centre, School of Microbiology, University College Cork-National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland. f.ogara@ucc.ie.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The search for new antimicrobial compounds has gained added momentum in recent years, paralleled by the exponential rise in resistance to most known classes of current antibiotics. While modifications of existing drugs have brought some limited clinical success, there remains a critical need for new classes of antimicrobial compound to which key clinical pathogens will be naive. This has provided the context and impetus to marine biodiscovery programmes that seek to isolate and characterize new activities from the aquatic ecosystem. One new antibiotic to emerge from these initiatives is the antibacterial compound tropodithietic acid (TDA). The aim of this study was to provide insight into the bioactivity of and the factors governing the production of TDA in marine Pseudovibrio isolates from a collection of marine sponges. The TDA produced by these Pseudovibrio isolates exhibited potent antimicrobial activity against a broad spectrum of clinical pathogens, while TDA tolerance was frequent in non-TDA producing marine isolates. Comparative genomics analysis suggested a high degree of conservation among the tda biosynthetic clusters while expression studies revealed coordinated regulation of TDA synthesis upon transition from log to stationary phase growth, which was not induced by TDA itself or by the presence of the C10-acyl homoserine lactone quorum sensing signal molecule.

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AnimalsAnti-Bacterial AgentsPoriferaTropoloneAnti-Bacterial Agentstropodithietic acidTropolone

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PMCPMC4278212

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