[HTML][HTML] The essentials of marine biotechnology

A Rotter, M Barbier, F Bertoni, AM Bones… - Frontiers In marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Coastal countries have traditionally relied on the existing marine resources (eg, fishing,
food, transport, recreation, and tourism) as well as tried to support new economic endeavors …

[HTML][HTML] Marine-derived actinomycetes: biodegradation of plastics and formation of PHA bioplastics—a circular bioeconomy approach

J Oliveira, PL Almeida, RG Sobral, ND Lourenço… - Marine Drugs, 2022 - mdpi.com
Plastics are present in the majority of daily-use products worldwide. Due to society's
production and consumption patterns, plastics are accumulating in the environment, causing …

[HTML][HTML] Antifouling Napyradiomycins from Marine-Derived Actinomycetes Streptomyces aculeolatus

F Pereira, JR Almeida, M Paulino, IR Grilo, H Macedo… - Marine drugs, 2020 - mdpi.com
The undesired attachment of micro and macroorganisms on water-immersed surfaces,
known as marine biofouling, results in severe prevention and maintenance costs …

[HTML][HTML] A computer-aided drug design approach to predict marine drug-like leads for SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibition

SP Gaudêncio, F Pereira - Marine drugs, 2020 - mdpi.com
The investigation of marine natural products (MNPs) as key resources for the discovery of
drugs to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic is a developing field. In this work, computer-aided …

[HTML][HTML] Actinobacteria from Arctic and Atlantic deep-sea sediments—Biodiversity and bioactive potential

I Ribeiro, JT Antunes, DAM Alexandrino… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The deep-sea covers over 70% of the Earth's surface and harbors predominantly
uncharacterized bacterial communities. Actinobacteria are the major prokaryotic source of …

[HTML][HTML] Diversity and bioactive potential of actinobacteria isolated from a coastal marine sediment in northern Portugal

I Ribeiro, M Girão, DAM Alexandrino, T Ribeiro… - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
Natural compounds have had increasing applications in the biotechnological sector, with a
large fraction of these substances being channeled to the pharmaceutical industry due to …

Intra‐clade metabolomic profiling of MAR4 Streptomyces from the Macaronesia Atlantic region reveals a source of anti‐biofilm metabolites

A Bauermeister, F Pereira, IR Grilo… - Environmental …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The search for new and effective strategies to reduce bacterial biofilm formation is of utmost
importance as bacterial resistance to antibiotics continues to emerge. The use of anti‐biofilm …

[HTML][HTML] Generation of a high quality library of bioactive filamentous actinomycetes from extreme biomes using a culture-based bioprospecting strategy

M Świecimska, P Golińska, M Goodfellow - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Filamentous actinomycetes, notably members of the genus Streptomyces,
remain a rich source of new specialized metabolites, especially antibiotics. In addition, they …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting antifouling activity and acetylcholinesterase inhibition of marine-derived compounds using a computer-aided drug design approach

SP Gaudêncio, F Pereira - Marine Drugs, 2022 - mdpi.com
Biofouling is the undesirable growth of micro-and macro-organisms on artificial water-
immersed surfaces, which results in high costs for the prevention and maintenance of this …

Bioprospecting of novel and bioactive compounds from marine actinomycetes isolated from South China Sea sediments

N Yang, F Song - Current microbiology, 2018 - Springer
Marine actinomycetes are less investigated compared to terrestrial strains as potential
sources of natural products. To date, few investigations have been performed on culturable …