Tubulin is the biochemical target for several clinically used anticancer drugs, including
paclitaxel and the vinca alkaloids vincristine and vinblastine. This review describes both the …

Metabolites from symbiotic bacteria - Natural Product Reports (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/B703499G
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The interdisciplinary field of marine chemical ecology is an expanding and dynamic science.
It is no surprise that the breadth of marine organisms studied expanded in concert with …

Invertebrate animals, such as sponges, tunicates and bryozoans, are among the most
important sources of biomedically relevant natural products. However, as these animals …

This article is written as an overview of current marine biosynthetic knowledge and as an
extension of previous reviews in which the biosynthetic origins of marine natural products …

Halichondria panicea (Pallas) is a marine sponge, abundantly occurring in the Adriatic Sea,
North Sea, and Baltic Sea. It was the aim of the present study to investigate if this sponge …

The tropical marine sponge Dysidea herbacea (Keller) contains the filamentous unicellular
cyanobacterium Oscillatoria spongeliae (Schulze) Hauck as an endosymbiont, plus …

Microbes associated with marine sponges are of interest in marine biotechnology for several
reasons. Sponge‐associated microbes are a resource for drug discovery. Studies on the …

Among all metazoan phyla, sponges are known to produce the largest number of bioactive
compounds. However, until now, only one compound, arabinofuranosyladenine, has been …

The major secondary metabolites of the sponge Aplysina aerophoba are brominated
compounds. X-ray energy dispersive microanalysis was therefore used to locate secondary …