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Longo C, Pierri C, Trani R, Mercurio M, Nonnis Marzano C, Corriero G, Aguilo-Arce J, Sini V, Massari F, Zambonin C, Vona D, Cotugno P, Ragni R, Masini S, Giangrande A, D'Onghia G, Ferriol P. Toward a green strategy of sponge mariculture and bioactive compounds recovery. Sci Rep 2025; 15:5999. [PMID: 39966515 PMCID: PMC11836350 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-90192-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2024] [Accepted: 02/11/2025] [Indexed: 02/20/2025] Open
Abstract
Sponges are benthic filter-feeder invertebrates capable to produce a variety of high value bioactive compounds. Nevertheless, exploitation of sponges as bio-factories requires scalable and sustainable strategies to supply sponge biomass without threatening wild natural populations and to minimize the consumption of toxic organic solvents in metabolites extraction and purification procedures. Sponges farming in integrated facilities nearby fish mariculture cages represents a highly efficient strategy combining the production of sponge biomass with bioremediation. Here we report the results of the in situ rearing of the keratose sponge Sarcotragus spinosulus developed within three years in an innovative Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture system in the Gulf of Taranto (Southern Italy, Mediterranean Sea), capable to supply large-scale sponge biomass with a minimal impact on wild populations. Moreover, we demonstrate the proof of concept that it is possible to produce polyprenyl hydroquinones, selected as well-known bioactive model metabolites, in good yields, high purity degree and low organic solvent consumption, by means of an innovative protocol based on the combination of supercritical carbon dioxide fluid extraction and gel permeation chromatography. Such a combination of eco-friendly techniques paves the way to eco-sustainable supply of bioactive compounds from marine organisms highly profitable in terms of working times, costs, solvents, and energy saving.
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- Caterina Longo
- Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Environment, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Environment, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Environment, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Environment, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Environment, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Environment, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Environment, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Environment, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Environment, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze del Suolo, della Pianta e degli Alimenti, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italy.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italy.
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- ECOPAN SRL, Viale Virgilio, 142, 74121, Taranto, Italy
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, S.P. 6 Lecce, 73100, Monteroni, Lecce, Italy
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- Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Environment, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italy
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- Interdisciplinary Ecology Group, Department of Biology, University of Balearic Islands, Car. de Valldemossa, km 7.5, 07122, Palma de Mallorca, Illes Balears, Spain
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Padiglia A, Ledda FD, Padedda BM, Pronzato R, Manconi R. Long-term experimental in situ farming of Crambe crambe (Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida). PeerJ 2018; 6:e4964. [PMID: 29915695 PMCID: PMC6004114 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2018] [Accepted: 05/23/2018] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Background The marine sponge Crambe crambe was chosen as an experimental model of sustainable shallow-water mariculture in the Sardinian Sea (Western Mediterranean) to provide biomass with high potential in applied research. Methods Explants were cultured in four long-term experiments (19 and 31 months at ca. 2.5 m depth), to determine the suitability of new culture techniques by testing substrata and seeding time (season), and monitoring survival and growth. Explants were excised and grown in an experimental plant close to the wild donor sponge population. Percentage growth rate (GR%) was measured in terms of surface cover area, and explant survival was monitored in situ by means of a digital photo camera. Results Explant survival was high throughout the trial, ranging from 78.57% to 92.85% on travertine tiles and from 50% to 71.42% on oyster shells. A few instances of sponge regression were observed. Explant cover area correlated positively with season on two substrata, i.e., tiles and shells. The surface cover area and GR% of explants were measured in the starting phase and monitored up to the end of the trial. High GR% values were observed both on tiles (>21%) and on oyster shells (>15%). Discussion The data on the behaviour and life-style of cultured fragments, together with an increase >2,400% in cover area, demonstrate that in situ aquaculture is a viable and sustainable method for the shallow-water biomass supply of Crambe crambe.
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- Andrea Padiglia
- Department for Earth, Environment and Life Sciences, University of Genova, Genova, Italy.,Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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- Centre for Integrative Biology, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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- Department for Earth, Environment and Life Sciences, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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BluePharmTrain: Biology and Biotechnology of Marine Sponges. GRAND CHALLENGES IN MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69075-9_13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Ternon E, Perino E, Manconi R, Pronzato R, Thomas OP. How Environmental Factors Affect the Production of Guanidine Alkaloids by the Mediterranean Sponge Crambe crambe. Mar Drugs 2017. [PMID: 28621725 PMCID: PMC5484131 DOI: 10.3390/md15060181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Most marine sponges are known to produce a large array of low molecular-weight metabolites which have applications in the pharmaceutical industry. The production of so-called specialized metabolites may be closely related to environmental factors. In this context, assessing the contribution of factors like temperature, nutrients or light to the metabolomes of sponges provides relevant insights into their chemical ecology as well as the supply issue of natural sponge products. The sponge Crambe crambe was chosen as a model due to its high content of specialized metabolites belonging to polycyclic guanidine alkaloids (PGA). First results were obtained with field data of both wild and farmed specimens collected in two seasons and geographic areas of the North-Western Mediterranean. Then, further insights into factors responsible for changes in the metabolism were gained with sponges cultivated under controlled conditions in an aquarium. Comparative metabolomics showed a clear influence of the seasons and to a lesser extent of the geography while no effect of depth or farming was observed. Interestingly, sponge farming did not limit the production of PGA, while ex situ experiments did not show significant effects of several abiotic factors on the specialized metabolome at a one-month time scale. Some hypotheses were finally proposed to explain the very limited variations of PGA in C. crambe placed under different environmental conditions.
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- Eva Ternon
- Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, OCA, IRD, Géoazur, 250 rue Albert Einstein, 06560 Valbonne, France.
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell'Ambiente e della Vita, Università di Genova, Corso Europa 26, 16132 Genoa, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Natura e del Territorio, Università di Sassari, Via Muroni 25, 07100 Sassari, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell'Ambiente e della Vita, Università di Genova, Corso Europa 26, 16132 Genoa, Italy.
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- Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, OCA, IRD, Géoazur, 250 rue Albert Einstein, 06560 Valbonne, France.
- Marine Biodiscovery, School of Chemistry, National University of Ireland Galway, University Road, H91 TK33 Galway, Ireland.
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Ternon E, Zarate L, Chenesseau S, Croué J, Dumollard R, Suzuki MT, Thomas OP. Spherulization as a process for the exudation of chemical cues by the encrusting sponge C. crambe. Sci Rep 2016; 6:29474. [PMID: 27381941 PMCID: PMC4933965 DOI: 10.1038/srep29474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2016] [Accepted: 06/20/2016] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Ecological interactions in the marine environment are now recognized to be partly held by chemical cues produced by marine organisms. In particular, sponges are sessile animals thought to rely on the bioactive substances they synthesize to ensure their development and defense. However, the mechanisms leading the sponges to use their specialized metabolites as chemical cues remain unknown. Here we report the constant release of bioactive polycyclic guanidinic alkaloids by the Mediterranean sponge Crambe crambe into the dissolved and the particulate phases using a targeted metabolomics study. These compounds were proven to be stored into already described specialized (spherulous) sponge cells and dispersed into the water column after release through the sponge exhaling channels (oscula), leading to a chemical shield surrounding the sponge. Low concentrations of these compounds were demonstrated to have teratogenic effects on embryos of a common sea squirt (ascidian). This mechanism of action called spherulization may therefore contribute to the ecological success of encrusting sponges that need to extend their substrate cover to expand.
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- Eva Ternon
- Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Institut de Chimie de Nice, UMR 7272 CNRS, Faculté des Sciences, Parc Valrose, 06108 NICE Cedex 2, France
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- Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Institut de Chimie de Nice, UMR 7272 CNRS, Faculté des Sciences, Parc Valrose, 06108 NICE Cedex 2, France
- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06 and CNRS, Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement de Villefranche-sur-mer, Observatoire Océanologique, F-06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, Univ Avignon, CNRS, IRD, IMBE, Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie marine et continentale, Station Marine d’Endoume, rue de la Batterie des Lions, 13007 Marseille, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06 and CNRS, Laboratoire de Biodiversité et Biotechnologies Microbiennes (LBBM), Observatoire Océanologique, F-66650 Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06 and CNRS, Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement de Villefranche-sur-mer, Observatoire Océanologique, F-06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06 and CNRS, Laboratoire de Biodiversité et Biotechnologies Microbiennes (LBBM), Observatoire Océanologique, F-66650 Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, Univ Avignon, CNRS, IRD, IMBE, Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie marine et continentale, Station Marine d’Endoume, rue de la Batterie des Lions, 13007 Marseille, France
- National University of Ireland Galway, Marine Biodiscovery, School of Chemistry, University Road, Galway, Ireland
- Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, OCA, IRD, Géoazur, 250 rue Albert Einstein, 06560 Valbonne, France
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Pérez-López P, Jeffryes C, Agathos SN, Feijoo G, Rorrer G, Moreira MT. Environmental life cycle optimization of essential terpene oils produced by the macroalga Ochtodes secundiramea. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2016; 542:292-305. [PMID: 26519589 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.10.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2015] [Revised: 10/08/2015] [Accepted: 10/08/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The macroalga Ochtodes secundiramea is a well-known producer of essential terpene oils with promising biological activities and similar applications to those of microalgal biocompounds in the pharmaceutical, food or cosmetics sectors. This study assesses the environmental impacts associated with the production of five essential terpene oils (myrcene, 10Z-bromomyrcene, 10E-bromo-3-chloromyrcene, apakaochtodene B and acyclic C10H14Br2) by O. secundiramea cultivated in a closed airlift photobioreactor with artificial illumination. The results of the life cycle assessment (LCA) allowed analyzing the effect of implementing a semi-continuous operation on several stages of the life cycle of the products, which may lead to impact reductions from 1% up to 25%. Regarding the most problematic aspects of the process, the cultivation in the photobioreactor (S4) was identified as the main stage responsible for the environmental burdens, with contributions ranging between 60% and 80% of the total impacts for a semi-continuous production maintained during one year of operation. The electricity supply is the key activity affecting eight of the ten assessed categories and involves between 50% and 60% of the impact of the process. S4 is the main cause of the high energy requirements, with 86% of the total electricity consumption. Additionally, several scenarios aiming at improving the environmental profile of the system were evaluated. The application of LCA finally led to the proposal of two optimized scenarios with improvements between 8% and 40% with respect to the baseline case study.
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- Paula Pérez-López
- Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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- Laboratory of Bioengineering, Earth & Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; Nanobiomaterials and Bioprocessing (NAB) Laboratory, Dan F. Smith Department of Chemical Engineering, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX 77710, United Sates
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- Laboratory of Bioengineering, Earth & Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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