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Marine Drugs, Volume 16, Issue 5

May 2018 - 38 articles

Cover Story: The purpose of this study is to change the paradigm based on the harvest/extraction approach and replace it with remote trapping of marine invertebrate molecules. This ecofriendly and sustainable approach aimed to exploit the animals in their natural habitat and to highlight the interdependence between the animal and its neighbors and between the animal and its symbionts. Our results demonstrate that when maintaining Crambe crambe and Anemonia sulcate in an aquarium and trapping the compounds released in the water, we succeeded in isolating and identifying toxic compounds to Anemonia, released by Crambe. Thus, This publication provide the proof of concept of a technology named Somartex® for (Self Operating MARine Trapping EXtractor) which was patented and built in order to transfer the concept from closed aquarium systems to open marine ecosystems. View this paper.
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Articles (38)

  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
6,496 Views
14 Pages

Bioactive Pyridone Alkaloids from a Deep-Sea-Derived Fungus Arthrinium sp. UJNMF0008

  • Jie Bao,
  • Huijuan Zhai,
  • Kongkai Zhu,
  • Jin-Hai Yu,
  • Yuying Zhang,
  • Yinyin Wang,
  • Cheng-Shi Jiang,
  • Xiaoyong Zhang,
  • Yun Zhang and
  • Hua Zhang

22 May 2018

Eight new 4-hydroxy-2-pyridone alkaloids arthpyrones D–K (1–8), along with two known analogues apiosporamide (9) and arthpyrone B (10), were isolated from a deep-sea-derived fungus Arthrinium sp. UJNMF0008. The structures of the isolated...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,300 Views
21 Pages

Molecular Targets of Active Anticancer Compounds Derived from Marine Sources

  • Xiaoping Song,
  • Ying Xiong,
  • Xin Qi,
  • Wei Tang,
  • Jiajia Dai,
  • Qianqun Gu and
  • Jing Li

22 May 2018

Over the past decades, a number of novel compounds, which are produced in the marine environment, have been found to exhibit the anticancer effects. This review focuses on molecular targets of marine-derived anticancer candidates in clinical and prec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,497 Views
9 Pages

Mono- and Dimeric Naphthalenones from the Marine-Derived Fungus Leptosphaerulina chartarum 3608

  • Panpan Zhang,
  • Chunxiu Jia,
  • Jiajia Lang,
  • Jing Li,
  • Guangyuan Luo,
  • Senhua Chen,
  • Sujun Yan and
  • Lan Liu

21 May 2018

Five new naphthalenones, two enantiomers (−)-1 and (+)-1 leptothalenone A, (−)-4,8-dihydroxy-7-(2-hydroxy-ethyl)-6-methoxy-3,4-dihydro-2H-naphthalen-1-one ((−)-2), (4S, 10R, 4’S)-leptotha-lenone B (5), (4R, 10S, 4’S)-lep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
6,314 Views
15 Pages

Anti-Tumorigenic and Anti-Metastatic Activity of the Sponge-Derived Marine Drugs Aeroplysinin-1 and Isofistularin-3 against Pheochromocytoma In Vitro

  • Nicole Bechmann,
  • Hermann Ehrlich,
  • Graeme Eisenhofer,
  • Andre Ehrlich,
  • Stephan Meschke,
  • Christian G. Ziegler and
  • Stefan R. Bornstein

20 May 2018

Over 10% of pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma (PPGL) patients have malignant disease at their first presentation in the clinic. Development of malignancy and the underlying molecular pathways in PPGLs are poorly understood and efficient treatment st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,154 Views
15 Pages

18 May 2018

Superoxide dismutases (SODs) are among the most important antioxidant enzymes and show great potential in preventing adverse effects during therapeutic trials. In the present study, cloning, expression, and characterization of a novel Cu,Zn superoxid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,606 Views
14 Pages

18 May 2018

Sea snakes have wide application prospects in medicine, health food and other fields. Several novel polysaccharides were successfully obtained from the skin and the meat of a sea snake (Lapemis curtus). The structures of polysaccharides LSP3 and LMP3...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,018 Views
14 Pages

18 May 2018

Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are found covalently attached to proteins, which create conjugates known as proteoglycans. GAGs have remarkable biological activity as co-receptors for a variety of growth factors, cytokines, and chemokines. The present stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
8,609 Views
15 Pages

17 May 2018

Recently, accumulating evidence has suggested that Enteromorpha clathrata polysaccharide (ECP) could contribute to the treatment of diseases. However, as a promising candidate for marine drug development, although ECP has been extensively studied, le...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,790 Views
9 Pages

Precursor-Directed Generation of Indolocarbazoles with Topoisomerase IIα Inhibitory Activity

  • Cong Wang,
  • Adeep Monger,
  • Liping Wang,
  • Peng Fu,
  • Pawinee Piyachaturawat,
  • Arthit Chairoungdua and
  • Weiming Zhu

17 May 2018

One new indolocarbazole, 3-hydroxy-K252d (3), together with the recently reported 3-hydroxyholyrine A (1) and 3′-N-acetyl-3-hydroxyholyrine A (2), were obtained by feeding a culture of the marine-derived Streptomyces strain OUCMDZ-3118 with 5-h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,403 Views
15 Pages

Anticancer Activity of Euplotin C, Isolated from the Marine Ciliate Euplotes crassus, Against Human Melanoma Cells

  • Sara Carpi,
  • Beatrice Polini,
  • Giulio Poli,
  • Gabriela Alcantara Barata,
  • Stefano Fogli,
  • Antonella Romanini,
  • Tiziano Tuccinardi,
  • Graziano Guella,
  • Francesco Paolo Frontini and
  • Paola Nieri
  • + 1 author

16 May 2018

Cutaneous melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer, so new cytotoxic weapons against novel targets in melanoma are of great interest. Euplotin C (EC), a cytotoxic secondary metabolite of the marine ciliate Euplotes crassus, was evaluated in t...

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