Fungi in the marine environment: Open questions and unsolved problems

A Amend, G Burgaud, M Cunliffe, VP Edgcomb… - MBio, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Terrestrial fungi play critical roles in nutrient cycling and food webs and can shape
macroorganism communities as parasites and mutualists. Although estimates for the number …

Potential of anti-cancer activity of secondary metabolic products from marine fungi

E Noman, MM Al-Shaibani, MA Bakhrebah… - Journal of Fungi, 2021 - mdpi.com
The promising feature of the fungi from the marine environment as a source for anticancer
agents belongs to the fungal ability to produce several compounds and enzymes which …

Marine fungi: A treasure trove of novel natural products and for biological discovery

F Kempken - PLoS Pathogens, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Originally being thought to be absent from salt water, compelling evidence was presented
for the existence of marine fungi. This research was published as a textbook in1979 [1], but …

Anti-Candidal Marine Natural Products: A Review

A Ganeshkumar, JC Gonçale, R Rajaram… - Journal of Fungi, 2023 - mdpi.com
Candida spp. are common opportunistic microorganisms in the human body and can cause
mucosal, cutaneous, and systemic infections, mainly in individuals with weakened immune …

Recent progress in marine mycological research in different countries, and prospects for future developments worldwide

KL Pang, EBG Jones, MA Abdel-Wahab, SJ Adams… - Botanica …, 2023 - degruyter.com
Early research on marine fungi was mostly descriptive, with an emphasis on their diversity
and taxonomy, especially of those collected at rocky shores on seaweeds and driftwood …

Application of gene knockout and heterologous expression strategy in fungal secondary metabolites biosynthesis

Y Ning, Y Xu, B Jiao, X Lu - Marine Drugs, 2022 - mdpi.com
The in-depth study of fungal secondary metabolites (SMs) over the past few years has led to
the discovery of a vast number of novel fungal SMs, some of which possess good biological …

Proteomic enzyme analysis of the marine fungus Paradendryphiella salina reveals alginate lyase as a minimal adaptation strategy for brown algae degradation

B Pilgaard, C Wilkens, FA Herbst, M Vuillemin… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
We set out to investigate the genetic adaptations of the marine fungus Paradendryphiella
salina CBS112865 for degradation of brown macroalgae. We performed whole genome and …

Recent advances on Pestalotiopsis genus: chemistry, biological activities, structure–activity relationship, and biosynthesis

P Jiang, X Fu, H Niu, S Chen, F Liu, Y Luo… - Archives of Pharmacal …, 2023 - Springer
Strains of the fungal genus Pestalotiopsis are reported as large promising sources of
structurally varied biologically active metabolites. Many bioactive secondary metabolites …

Metabolomics-Guided Discovery of New Dimeric Xanthones from Co-Cultures of Mangrove Endophytic Fungi Phomopsis asparagi DHS-48 and Phomopsis sp. DHS …

J Wu, D Chen, Q Li, T Feng, J Xu - Marine Drugs, 2024 - mdpi.com
The co-culture strategy, which mimics natural ecology by constructing an artificial microbial
community, is a useful tool for the activation of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) to generate …

Bioinformatics for marine products: An overview of resources, bottlenecks, and perspectives

L Ambrosino, M Tangherlini, C Colantuono, A Esposito… - Marine drugs, 2019 - mdpi.com
The sea represents a major source of biodiversity. It exhibits many different ecosystems in a
huge variety of environmental conditions where marine organisms have evolved with …