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Gene cloning and characterization of a vanadium-dependent bromoperoxidase from the red alga Laurencia saitoi, a producer of brominated diterpenoids and triterpenoids
The gene encoding vanadium-dependent bromoperoxidase (V-BPO) was cloned for the first time from the red alga Laurencia saitoi , which produces...
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Phylogenetic Analyses of Microbial Hydrolytic Dehalogenases Reveal Polyphyletic Origin
Hydrolytic dehalogenases form an important class of dehalogenases that include haloacid dehalogenase, haloalkane dehalogenase, haloacetate...
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Heterologous Expression and Biochemical Characterization of a New Chloroperoxidase Isolated from the Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Black Yeast Hortaea werneckii UBOCC-A-208029
The initiation of this study relies on a targeted genome-mining approach to highlight the presence of a putative vanadium-dependent...
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Emission of volatile halocarbons from the farming of commercially important tropical seaweeds
The emission rates of the atmospherically important halogenated trace gases CHBr 3 , CHBr 2 Cl and CHBrCl 2 were measured from two commercially important...
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A genome-wide investigation of the effect of farming and human-mediated introduction on the ubiquitous seaweed Undaria pinnatifida
Human activity is an important driver of ecological and evolutionary change on our planet. In particular, domestication and biological introductions...
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Is geographical variation driving the transcriptomic responses to multiple stressors in the kelp Saccharina latissima?
BackgroundKelps (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae) are brown macroalgae of utmost ecological, and increasingly economic, importance on temperate to polar...
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Proximal Composition of Undaria pinnatifida from San Jorge Gulf (Patagonia, Argentina)
Undaria pinnatifida is a brown macroalga considered a high quality natural food because of its numerous health benefits. The aim of this paper is to...
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Environmental Control of Vanadium Haloperoxidases and Halocarbon Emissions in Macroalgae
Vanadium-dependent haloperoxidases (V-HPO), able to catalyze the reaction of halide ions (Cl − , Br − , I - ) with hydrogen peroxide, have a great...
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Chemical defense against microfouling by allelopathic active metabolites of Halymenia floresii (Rhodophyta)
During the experimental cultivation of the red alga Halymenia floresii under Integrated MultiTrophic Aquaculture (IMTA), the establishment of...
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Investigations on Modulating Effect of Vanadium Supplementation on Growth and Metabolism Through Improved Immune Response, Antioxidative Profile and Endocrine Variables in Hariana heifers
This study was conducted to investigate the effect of vanadium (V) supplementation on growth, metabolism, antioxidant, and immunological and...
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Metabolic relation of cyanobacteria to aromatic compounds
Cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green (micro)algae, are able to sustain many types of chemical stress because of metabolic adaptations that allow...
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Chemical War in Marine Animal Forests: Natural Products and Chemical Interactions
Forests are characterized by many different species living together, a high biodiversity, and many kinds of relationships among them, resulting from...
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Microbial and Functional Biodiversity Patterns in Sponges that Accumulate Bromopyrrole Alkaloids Suggest Horizontal Gene Transfer of Halogenase Genes
Marine sponge holobionts harbor complex microbial communities whose members may be the true producers of secondary metabolites accumulated by...
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Vanadium in Biosphere and Its Role in Biological Processes
Ultra-trace elements or occasionally beneficial elements (OBE) are the new categories of minerals including vanadium (V). The importance of V is...
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Global Transcriptome Analysis of Gracilaria changii (Rhodophyta) in Response to Agarolytic Enzyme and Bacterium
Many bacterial epiphytes of agar-producing seaweeds secrete agarase that degrade algal cell wall matrix into oligoagars which elicit defense-related...
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Investigation of Proteomic Profiles of Lamina of Ecklonia kurome (Laminariales): Homology-Based Cross-Species Protein Identification and Analysis of the Post-translational Processing of Vanadium-Dependent Bromoperoxidases Using MALDI-TOF/TOF
Proteomic profiles of the lamina of Ecklonia kurome Okamura, one of the Japanese dominant laminarialean kelps, were investigated by two-dimensional...
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Preferential Expression of a Bromoperoxidase in Sporophytes of a Red Alga, Pyropia yezoensis
A 2,158 bp cDNA ( PyBPO1 ) encoding a bromoperoxidase (BPO) of 625 amino acids was isolated from Pyropia yezoensis . Phylogenetic analysis using amino...
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Enzyme-based formulations for decontamination: current state and perspectives
Development of noncorrosive, cost-effective, environmentally benign, and broad-spectrum antimicrobial formulations is necessary for clinical,...
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