Microbial and Functional Biodiversity Patterns in Sponges that Accumulate Bromopyrrole Alkaloids Suggest Horizontal Gene Transfer of Halogenase Genes

Isolation, Derivative Synthesis, and Structure–Activity Relationships of Antiparasitic Bromopyrrole Alkaloids from the Marine Sponge Tedania brasiliensis

(2018) Lizbeth L. L. Parra et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS

Cultures of the Marine Bacterium Pseudovibrio denitrificans Ab134 Produce Bromotyrosine-Derived Alkaloids Previously Only Isolated from Marine Sponges

(2017) Karen J. Nicacio et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS

Metagenomic discovery of polybrominated diphenyl ether biosynthesis by marine sponges

(2017) Vinayak Agarwal et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

COFACTOR: improved protein function prediction by combining structure, sequence and protein–protein interaction information

(2017) Chengxin Zhang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Conceptual and methodological advances for holobiont research

(2017) Nicole S. Webster   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Insights into the Coral Microbiome: Underpinning the Health and Resilience of Reef Ecosystems

(2016) David G. Bourne et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Bromopyrrole Alkaloids from Okinawan Marine Sponges Agelas spp.

(2016) Naonobu Tanaka et al.   CHEMICAL & PHARMACEUTICAL BULLETIN

Decoupling function and taxonomy in the global ocean microbiome

(2016) S. Louca et al.   SCIENCE

The Sponge Hologenome

(2016) Nicole S. Webster et al.   mBio

Microbes Drive Evolution of Animals and Plants: the Hologenome Concept

(2016) Eugene Rosenberg et al.   mBio

Diversity, structure and convergent evolution of the global sponge microbiome

(2016) Torsten Thomas et al.   Nature Communications

A metagenomic-based survey of microbial (de)halogenation potential in a German forest soil

(2016) Pascal Weigold et al.   Scientific Reports

Keeping it in the family: Coevolution of latrunculid sponges and their dominant bacterial symbionts

(2016) Gwynneth F. Matcher et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

An extensive reef system at the Amazon River mouth

(2016) R. L. Moura et al.   Science Advances

Microbial and sponge loops modify fish production in phase-shifting coral reefs

(2015) Cynthia B. Silveira et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bioactive Secondary Metabolites from the Red Sea Marine Verongid Sponge Suberea Species

(2015) Lamiaa Shaala et al.   Marine Drugs

The Pfam protein families database: towards a more sustainable future

(2015) Robert D. Finn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Combinatorial biosynthesis by the sponge Tedania brasiliensis optimizes the anti-parasitic activity of bromopyrrole alkaloids

(2015) RGS Berlinck et al.   PLANTA MEDICA

STAMP: statistical analysis of taxonomic and functional profiles

(2014) Donovan H. Parks et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

ApoE secretion modulating bromotyrosine derivative from the Australian marine sponge Callyspongia sp.

(2014) Li-Wen Tian et al.   BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS

Dimeric pyrrole–imidazole alkaloids: synthetic approaches and biosynthetic hypotheses

(2014) Xiao Wang et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Host-specificity among abundant and rare taxa in the sponge microbiome

(2014) Julie Reveillaud et al.   ISME Journal

Temporal dynamics of prokaryotic communities in the marine spongeSarcotragus spinosulus

(2014) Cristiane C. P. Hardoim et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

An environmental bacterial taxon with a large and distinct metabolic repertoire

(2014) Micheal C. Wilson et al.   NATURE

Metabolic diversity and niche structure in sponges from the Miskito Cays, Honduras

(2014) Christopher J. Freeman et al.   PeerJ

Microbial diversity in the coralline sponge Vaceletia crypta

(2013) Klementyna Karlińska-Batres et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Structure Prediction of Partial-Length Protein Sequences

(2013) Adrian Laurenzi et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Specificity and transcriptional activity of microbiota associated with low and high microbial abundance sponges from the Red Sea

(2013) Lucas Moitinho-Silva et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Surviving in a Marine Desert: The Sponge Loop Retains Resources Within Coral Reefs

(2013) Jasper M. de Goeij et al.   SCIENCE

Culture-dependent and independent approaches for identifying novel halogenases encoded by Crambe crambe (marine sponge) microbiota

(2013) Başak Öztürk et al.   Scientific Reports

Pyrrole Aminoimidazole Alkaloid Metabiosynthesis with Marine Sponges Agelas conifera and Stylissa caribica

(2012) E. Paige Stout et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Stability of Sponge-Associated Bacteria over Large Seasonal Shifts in Temperature and Irradiance

(2012) Patrick M. Erwin et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial community profiles in low microbial abundance sponges

(2012) Emily C. Giles et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Metaproteogenomic analysis of a community of sponge symbionts

(2012) Michael Liu et al.   ISME Journal

Genomic Mining for Novel FADH2-Dependent Halogenases in Marine Sponge-Associated Microbial Consortia

(2012) Kristina Bayer et al.   MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Genomic insights into the marine sponge microbiome

(2012) Ute Hentschel et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Pyrosequencing of Bacterial Symbionts within Axinella corrugata Sponges: Diversity and Seasonal Variability

(2012) James R. White et al.   PLoS One

Taxonomic and Functional Microbial Signatures of the Endemic Marine Sponge Arenosclera brasiliensis

(2012) Amaro E. Trindade-Silva et al.   PLoS One

Functional equivalence and evolutionary convergence in complex communities of microbial sponge symbionts

(2012) L. Fan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Metagenome Mining Reveals Polytheonamides as Posttranslationally Modified Ribosomal Peptides

(2012) M. F. Freeman et al.   SCIENCE

A Platform-Independent Method for Detecting Errors in Metagenomic Sequencing Data: DRISEE

(2012) Kevin P. Keegan et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Deep sequencing reveals diversity and community structure of complex microbiota in five Mediterranean sponges

(2011) Susanne Schmitt et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Assessing the complex sponge microbiota: core, variable and species-specific bacterial communities in marine sponges

(2011) Susanne Schmitt et al.   ISME Journal

Oroidin Inhibits the Activity of the Multidrug Resistance Target Pdr5p from Yeast Plasma Membranes

(2011) Fernanda R. da Silva et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS

Biosynthesis, asymmetric synthesis, and pharmacology, including cellular targets, of the pyrrole-2-aminoimidazole marine alkaloids

(2011) Ali Al-Mourabit et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

Prodigal: prokaryotic gene recognition and translation initiation site identification

(2010) Doug Hyatt et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Functional genomic signatures of sponge bacteria reveal unique and shared features of symbiosis

(2010) Torsten Thomas et al.   ISME Journal

Activity profiles for marine sponge-associated bacteria obtained by 16S rRNA vs 16S rRNA gene comparisons

(2010) Janine Kamke et al.   ISME Journal

Bromopyrrole Alkaloids as Lead Compounds against Protozoan Parasites

(2010) Fernando Scala et al.   Marine Drugs

Chemical defense against predators and bacterial fouling in the Mediterranean sponges Axinella polypoides and A. verrucosa 

(2010) M Haber et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

I-TASSER: a unified platform for automated protein structure and function prediction

(2010) Ambrish Roy et al.   Nature Protocols

From anti-fouling to biofilm inhibition: New cytotoxic secondary metabolites from two Indonesian Agelas sponges

(2009) Triana Hertiani et al.   BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

Bromopyrrole Alkaloids from Marine Sponges of the GenusAgelas⊥

(2009) Tetsuro Yasuda et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS

Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

(2009) Gordon D. Love et al.   NATURE

The metagenomics RAST server – a public resource for the automatic phylogenetic and functional analysis of metagenomes

(2008) F Meyer et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Diversity of microbes associated with the marine sponge, Haliclona simulans, isolated from Irish waters and identification of polyketide synthase genes from the sponge metagenome

(2008) Jonathan Kennedy et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A Probabilistic Model of Local Sequence Alignment That Simplifies Statistical Significance Estimation

(2008) Sean R. Eddy   PLoS Computational Biology