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Casero MC, Herrero MÁ, De la Roche JP, Quesada A, Velázquez D, Cirés S. Effect of salinity on scytonemin yield in endolithic cyanobacteria from the Atacama Desert. Sci Rep 2024; 14:9731. [PMID: 38679613 PMCID: PMC11056366 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-60499-4] [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: 01/26/2024] [Accepted: 04/23/2024] [Indexed: 05/01/2024] Open
Abstract
Cyanobacteria inhabiting extreme environments constitute a promising source for natural products with biotechnological applications. However, they have not been studied in-depth for this purpose due to the difficulties in their isolation and mass culturing. The Atacama Desert suffers one of the highest solar irradiances that limits the presence of life on its hyperarid core to endolithic microbial communities supported by cyanobacteria as primary producers. Some of these cyanobacteria are known to produce scytonemin, a UV-screening liposoluble pigment with varied biotechnological applications in cosmetics and other industries. In this work we carried out a strain selection based on growth performance among 8 endolithic cyanobacteria of the genera Chroococcidiopsis, Gloeocapsa and Gloeocapsopsis isolated from non-saline rocks of the Atacama Desert. Then we investigated the influence of NaCl exposure on scytonemin production yield. Results in the selected strain (Chroococcidiopsis sp. UAM571) showed that rising concentrations of NaCl lead to a growth decrease while triggering a remarkable increase in the scytonemin content, reaching maximum values at 20 g L-1 of NaCl over 50-fold higher scytonemin contents than those obtained without NaCl. Altogether, these findings point out to cyanobacteria from the Atacama Desert as potentially suitable candidates for pilot-scale cultivation with biotechnological purposes, particularly to obtain scytonemin.
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- Departamento de Biología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28014, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28014, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28014, Madrid, Spain.
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Konkel R, Cegłowska M, Szubert K, Wieczerzak E, Iliakopoulou S, Kaloudis T, Mazur-Marzec H. Structural Diversity and Biological Activity of Cyanopeptolins Produced by Nostoc edaphicum CCNP1411. Mar Drugs 2023; 21:508. [PMID: 37888443 PMCID: PMC10608790 DOI: 10.3390/md21100508] [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: 08/21/2023] [Revised: 09/22/2023] [Accepted: 09/24/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023] Open
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Cyanopeptolins (CPs) are one of the most commonly occurring class of cyanobacterial nonribosomal peptides. For the majority of these compounds, protease inhibition has been reported. In the current work, the structural diversity of cyanopeptolins produced by Nostoc edaphicum CCNP1411 was explored. As a result, 93 CPs, including 79 new variants, were detected and structurally characterized based on their mass fragmentation spectra. CPs isolated in higher amounts were additionally characterized by NMR. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest number of cyanopeptides found in one strain. The biological assays performed with the 34 isolated CPs confirmed the significance of the amino acid located between Thr and the unique 3-amino-6-hydroxy-2-piperidone (Ahp) on the activity of the compounds against serine protease and HeLa cancer cells.
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- Robert Konkel
- Department of Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography, University of Gdańsk, PL-81378 Gdynia, Poland; (R.K.); (K.S.)
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- Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Powstańców Warszawy 55, PL-81712 Sopot, Poland;
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- Department of Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography, University of Gdańsk, PL-81378 Gdynia, Poland; (R.K.); (K.S.)
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- Department of Biomedical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 63, PL-80308 Gdańsk, Poland;
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- Department of Sustainable Agriculture, University of Patras, GR-30131 Agrinio, Greece;
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- Institute of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, NCSR Demokritos, GR-15310 Agia Paraskevi, Greece;
- Laboratory of Organic Micropollutants, Water Quality Control Department, EYDAP SA, Menidi, GR-13674 Athens, Greece
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- Department of Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography, University of Gdańsk, PL-81378 Gdynia, Poland; (R.K.); (K.S.)
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Konkel R, Grabski M, Cegłowska M, Wieczerzak E, Węgrzyn G, Mazur-Marzec H. Anabaenopeptins from Nostoc edaphicum CCNP1411. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:12346. [PMID: 36231642 PMCID: PMC9564503 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191912346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2022] [Revised: 09/24/2022] [Accepted: 09/26/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Cyanobacteria of the Nostoc genus belong to the most prolific sources of bioactive metabolites. In our previous study on Nostoc edaphicum strain CCNP1411, the occurrence of cyanopeptolins and nostocyclopeptides was documented. In the current work, the production of anabaenopeptins (APs) by the strain was studied using genetic and chemical methods. Compatibility between the analysis of the apt gene cluster and the structure of the identified APs was found. Three of the APs, including two new variants, were isolated as pure compounds and tested against four serine proteases and carboxypeptidase A (CPA). The in vitro enzymatic assays showed a typical activity of this class of cyanopeptides, i.e., the most pronounced effects were observed in the case of CPA. The activity of the detected compounds against important metabolic enzymes confirms the pharmaceutical potential of anabaenopeptins.
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- Robert Konkel
- Division of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Oceanography, University of Gdańsk, M. J. Piłsudskiego 46, PL-81378 Gdynia, Poland
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdansk, Wita Stwosza 59, PL-80308 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Powstańców Warszawy 55, PL-81712 Sopot, Poland
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- Department of Biomedical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 63, PL-80308 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdansk, Wita Stwosza 59, PL-80308 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Division of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Oceanography, University of Gdańsk, M. J. Piłsudskiego 46, PL-81378 Gdynia, Poland
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Srivastava A, Shukla P. Cyanobacterial Peptides: Metabolic Potential and Environmental Fate. Protein Pept Lett 2022; 29:375-378. [DOI: 10.2174/0929866529666220314111105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2021] [Revised: 01/15/2022] [Accepted: 01/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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- Amit Srivastava
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States of America
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- Enzyme
Technology and Protein Bioinformatics Laboratory, School of Biotechnology, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu
University, Varanasi 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Santos-Aberturas J, Vior NM. Beyond Soil-Dwelling Actinobacteria: Fantastic Antibiotics and Where to Find Them. Antibiotics (Basel) 2022; 11:195. [PMID: 35203798 PMCID: PMC8868522 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics11020195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2021] [Revised: 01/27/2022] [Accepted: 01/29/2022] [Indexed: 12/10/2022] Open
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Bacterial secondary metabolites represent an invaluable source of bioactive molecules for the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. Although screening campaigns for the discovery of new compounds have traditionally been strongly biased towards the study of soil-dwelling Actinobacteria, the current antibiotic resistance and discovery crisis has brought a considerable amount of attention to the study of previously neglected bacterial sources of secondary metabolites. The development and application of new screening, sequencing, genetic manipulation, cultivation and bioinformatic techniques have revealed several other groups of bacteria as producers of striking chemical novelty. Biosynthetic machineries evolved from independent taxonomic origins and under completely different ecological requirements and selective pressures are responsible for these structural innovations. In this review, we summarize the most important discoveries related to secondary metabolites from alternative bacterial sources, trying to provide the reader with a broad perspective on how technical novelties have facilitated the access to the bacterial metabolic dark matter.
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR7 4UH, UK
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Fidor A, Cekała K, Wieczerzak E, Cegłowska M, Kasprzykowski F, Edwards C, Mazur-Marzec H. Nostocyclopeptides as New Inhibitors of 20S Proteasome. Biomolecules 2021; 11:biom11101483. [PMID: 34680116 PMCID: PMC8533403 DOI: 10.3390/biom11101483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2021] [Revised: 09/29/2021] [Accepted: 10/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Nostocyclopeptides (Ncps) are a small class of bioactive nonribosomal peptides produced solely by cyanobacteria of the genus Nostoc. In the current work, six Ncps were isolated from Nostoc edaphicum strain CCNP1411. The bioactivity of these compounds was tested in vitro against 20S proteasome, a proteolytic complex that plays an important role in maintaining cellular proteostasis. Dysfunction of the complex leads to many pathological disorders. The assays indicated selective activity of specific Ncp variants. For two linear peptide aldehydes, Ncp-A2-L and Ncp-E2-L, the inhibitory effects on chymotrypsin-like activity were revealed, while the cyclic variant, Ncp-A2, inactivated the trypsin-like site of this enzymatic complex. The aldehyde group was confirmed to be an important element of the chymotrypsin-like activity inhibitors. The nostocyclopeptides, as novel inhibitors of 20S proteasome, increased the number of natural products that can be considered potential regulators of cellular processes.
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- Anna Fidor
- Division of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Oceanography, University of Gdańsk, Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego 46, PL-81378 Gdynia, Poland;
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- Department of Biomedical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 63, PL-80308 Gdańsk, Poland; (K.C.); (E.W.); (F.K.)
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- Department of Biomedical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 63, PL-80308 Gdańsk, Poland; (K.C.); (E.W.); (F.K.)
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- Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Powstańców Warszawy 55, PL-81712 Sopot, Poland;
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- Department of Biomedical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 63, PL-80308 Gdańsk, Poland; (K.C.); (E.W.); (F.K.)
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- School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen AB10 7GJ, UK;
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- Division of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Oceanography, University of Gdańsk, Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego 46, PL-81378 Gdynia, Poland;
- Correspondence:
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Algal Toxic Compounds and Their Aeroterrestrial, Airborne and other Extremophilic Producers with Attention to Soil and Plant Contamination: A Review. Toxins (Basel) 2021; 13:toxins13050322. [PMID: 33946968 PMCID: PMC8145420 DOI: 10.3390/toxins13050322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2021] [Revised: 04/27/2021] [Accepted: 04/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The review summarizes the available knowledge on toxins and their producers from rather disparate algal assemblages of aeroterrestrial, airborne and other versatile extreme environments (hot springs, deserts, ice, snow, caves, etc.) and on phycotoxins as contaminants of emergent concern in soil and plants. There is a growing body of evidence that algal toxins and their producers occur in all general types of extreme habitats, and cyanobacteria/cyanoprokaryotes dominate in most of them. Altogether, 55 toxigenic algal genera (47 cyanoprokaryotes) were enlisted, and our analysis showed that besides the “standard” toxins, routinely known from different waterbodies (microcystins, nodularins, anatoxins, saxitoxins, cylindrospermopsins, BMAA, etc.), they can produce some specific toxic compounds. Whether the toxic biomolecules are related with the harsh conditions on which algae have to thrive and what is their functional role may be answered by future studies. Therefore, we outline the gaps in knowledge and provide ideas for further research, considering, from one side, the health risk from phycotoxins on the background of the global warming and eutrophication and, from the other side, the current surge of interest which phycotoxins provoke due to their potential as novel compounds in medicine, pharmacy, cosmetics, bioremediation, agriculture and all aspects of biotechnological implications in human life.
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