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Mazzella V, Dell'Anno A, Etxebarría N, González-Gaya B, Nuzzo G, Fontana A, Núñez-Pons L. High microbiome and metabolome diversification in coexisting sponges with different bio-ecological traits. Commun Biol 2024; 7:422. [PMID: 38589605 PMCID: PMC11001883 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06109-5] [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: 08/04/2023] [Accepted: 03/26/2024] [Indexed: 04/10/2024] Open
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Marine Porifera host diverse microbial communities, which influence host metabolism and fitness. However, functional relationships between sponge microbiomes and metabolic signatures are poorly understood. We integrate microbiome characterization, metabolomics and microbial predicted functions of four coexisting Mediterranean sponges -Petrosia ficiformis, Chondrosia reniformis, Crambe crambe and Chondrilla nucula. Microscopy observations reveal anatomical differences in microbial densities. Microbiomes exhibit strong species-specific trends. C. crambe shares many rare amplicon sequence variants (ASV) with the surrounding seawater. This suggests important inputs of microbial diversity acquired by selective horizontal acquisition. Phylum Cyanobacteria is mainly represented in C. nucula and C. crambe. According to putative functions, the microbiome of P. ficiformis and C. reniformis are functionally heterotrophic, while C. crambe and C. nucula are autotrophic. The four species display distinct metabolic profiles at single compound level. However, at molecular class level they share a "core metabolome". Concurrently, we find global microbiome-metabolome association when considering all four sponge species. Within each species still, sets of microbe/metabolites are identified driving multi-omics congruence. Our findings suggest that diverse microbial players and metabolic profiles may promote niche diversification, but also, analogous phenotypic patterns of "symbiont evolutionary convergence" in sponge assemblages where holobionts co-exist in the same area.
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- Valerio Mazzella
- Department of Integrative Marine Ecology (EMI), Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Ischia Marine Centre, 80077, Ischia, Naples, Italy
- NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Piazza Marina 61, Palermo, 90133, Italy
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- NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Piazza Marina 61, Palermo, 90133, Italy.
- Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131, Ancona, Italy.
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Basque Country, Spain
- Research Centre for Experimental Marine Biology and Biotechnology (PIE), University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Plentzia, Basque Country, Spain
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Basque Country, Spain
- Research Centre for Experimental Marine Biology and Biotechnology (PIE), University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Plentzia, Basque Country, Spain
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- Bio-Organic Chemistry Unit, Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry-CNR, Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078, Pozzuoli, Italy
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- Bio-Organic Chemistry Unit, Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry-CNR, Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078, Pozzuoli, Italy
- Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cinthia-Bld. 7, 80126, Napoli, Italy
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- NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Piazza Marina 61, Palermo, 90133, Italy.
- Department of Integrative Marine Ecology (EMI), Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121, Naples, Italy.
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Manço da Costa Bolson GC, Bezerra de Barros I, Volkmer-Ribeiro C, Alencar Lima J, Celmar Costa França T, Santos I, Puccinelli Orlandi P, Florêncio da Veiga-Junior V. Chemical Composition and Biological Activities of Metania and Drulia (Metaniidae) Freshwater Sponges from Amazonia. Chem Biodivers 2019; 16:e1900318. [PMID: 31364803 DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.201900318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2019] [Accepted: 07/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Sponges from freshwater environments, unlike marine's, are poorly known producers of natural compounds with medicinal purposes. Amazonian sponges produce massive large specimens and are widely spread, taxonomically diverse and their metabolites could represent a new frontier on unusual natural products to treat diseases such as Alzheimer's and Malaria. Species of Metania and Drulia (Metaniidae) genera are major contributors to the fauna of Amazonian freshwater sponges. Methanolic extracts from several species from these genera had their inhibitory activities evaluated in vitro, for parasite Plasmodium falciparum and acetyl and butyrylcholinesterase enzymes (AChE and BChE). All extracts were able to inhibit AChE, although no activity was observed towards BChE. Drulia uruguayensis extract was the most potent, inhibiting AChE with IC50 =1.04 mg/mL. For antiplasmodial activity, all species showed inhibition to P. falciparum, but Metania reticulata being the most efficient with IC50 =2.7 μg/mL. Mass spectrometry analyses evidenced the presence of fatty acids and sterols in active extracts.
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- Glaucia Cristina Manço da Costa Bolson
- Department of Chemistry, Institute of Exact Sciences, Federal University of Amazonas, Av. General Rodrigo Octavio Jordão Ramos, 1200 - Coroado I, Manaus, 69067-005, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute of Exact Sciences, Federal University of Amazonas, Av. General Rodrigo Octavio Jordão Ramos, 1200 - Coroado I, Manaus, 69067-005, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Natural Sciences Museum, Rio Grande do Sul Zoobotanical Foundation, R. Dr. Salvador França, 1427 - Jardim Botânico, Porto Alegre, 90690-000, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Military Institute of Engineering - IME, Praça Gen. Tibúrcio, 80 - Urca, Rio de Janeiro, 22290-270, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Military Institute of Engineering - IME, Praça Gen. Tibúrcio, 80 - Urca, Rio de Janeiro, 22290-270, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Institute Leonidas and Maria Deane - Fiocruz Amazonia, Rua Terezina, 476 - Adrianopolis, Manaus, 69057-070, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Institute Leonidas and Maria Deane - Fiocruz Amazonia, Rua Terezina, 476 - Adrianopolis, Manaus, 69057-070, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute of Exact Sciences, Federal University of Amazonas, Av. General Rodrigo Octavio Jordão Ramos, 1200 - Coroado I, Manaus, 69067-005, Amazonas, Brazil.,Department of Chemical Engineering, Military Institute of Engineering - IME, Praça Gen. Tibúrcio, 80 - Urca, Rio de Janeiro, 22290-270, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Lengger SK, Fromont J, Grice K. Tapping the archives: the sterol composition of marine sponge species, as determined non-invasively from museum-preserved specimens, reveals biogeographical features. GEOBIOLOGY 2017; 15:184-194. [PMID: 27686333 DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2016] [Accepted: 08/08/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Over 8600 species are currently recorded in the phylum Porifera (sponges). They produce a large diversity of biochemical compounds including sterols, with more than 250 different sterols identified. Some of these sterols are of great interest, due to their use for fingerprinting in ecological and biomarker (molecular fossil) studies. As a large number of identified extant species from biodiversity surveys are housed in museum collections, preserved in ethanol, these present a potentially rich source of identified specimens for comparative lipid analyses. Here, we show that, in at least one species, sterol distributions obtained from the ethanol used to preserve specimens of sponges were representative, and comparable to the sterol distribution obtained from wet-frozen and from freeze-dried tissue from the same species. We employed both GC-MS and two-dimensional gas chromatography-time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC×GC-TOFMS), with an improved signal-to-noise ratio for even minor constituents. Analysis of two additional specimens of the same species, but of different provenance, resulted in detection of marked differences in sterol composition, which could be attributed to variations in geography, environmental conditions, microbial communities, diet or cryptic speciation. The possibility of using ethanol from identified, preserved museum sponges could drastically increase the number of available samples. This could enable the study of their sterol complements, and the detailed investigation of differences due to geographical and oceanographic, phylogenetic, and other factors in unprecedented detail.
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- S K Lengger
- Department of Chemistry, WA Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre, The Institute for Geoscience Research, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
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- Western Australian Museum, Welshpool DC, WA, Australia
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- Department of Chemistry, WA Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre, The Institute for Geoscience Research, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
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Giner JL, Gunasekera SP, Pomponi SA. Sterols of the marine sponge Petrosia weinbergi: implications for the absolute configurations of the antiviral orthoesterols and weinbersterols. Steroids 1999; 64:820-4. [PMID: 10576216 PMCID: PMC7126050 DOI: 10.1016/s0039-128x(99)00068-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The marine sponge Petrosia weinbergi was found to contain isofucosterol and clionasterol as its major sterols. The rare cyclopropyl sterol (24S,28S)-24,28-methylenestigmast-5-en-3beta-ol, previously detected as only 0.07% of the total sterols of a pelagophytic alga Pulvinaria sp., made up 6.6% of the total sterols. These sterols are believed to be the biosynthetic precursors of the antiviral orthoesterols and weinbersterols found in the same sponge. Based on the side chains of the isolated sterols, the absolute configurations of the antiviral steroid side chains are assigned to be (24R,28S)- for orthoesterol B, (24R)- for orthoesterol C, and (24S,28S)- for weinbersterols A and B.
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- J L Giner
- Department of Chemistry, State University of New York, Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse 13210, USA.
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Gauvin A, Smadja J, Aknin M, Gaydou EM. Cyclopropane-containing sterols in the marine sponge Petrosia spheroı̈da. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s0305-0491(98)10138-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Manconi R, Piccialli V, Pronzato R, Sica D. Steroids in porifera, sterols from freshwater sponges Ephydatia fluviatilis (L.) and Spongilla lacustris (L.). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(88)90138-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Seidel SB, Proudfoot JR, Djerassi C, Sica D, Sodano G. Minor and trace sterols from marine invertebrates 56. Novel coprostanols from the marine sponge Petrosia ficiformis. Steroids 1986; 47:49-62. [PMID: 3101232 DOI: 10.1016/0039-128x(86)90076-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Twelve stanols possessing the rare 5 beta-dihydro nucleus have been isolated from the marine sponge Petrosia ficiformis. These stanols have not previously been encountered in any samples of P. ficiformis which we have examined and appear to be the result of bacterial metabolism of the endogenous sponge sterols.
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Krebs HC. Recent developments in the field of marine natural products with emphasis on biologically active compounds. FORTSCHRITTE DER CHEMIE ORGANISCHER NATURSTOFFE = PROGRESS IN THE CHEMISTRY OF ORGANIC NATURAL PRODUCTS. PROGRES DANS LA CHIMIE DES SUBSTANCES ORGANIQUES NATURELLES 1986; 49:151-363. [PMID: 2877925 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-8846-0_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Minor and trace sterols in marine invertebrates 48. The isolation, structure elucidation and synthesis of 23(R),24(R)-methylenecholesterol. Tetrahedron Lett 1984. [DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)81608-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Teshima SI, Kanazawa A, Yamada I, Tanaka Y. Sterols of the spongeTethya amamensis: Occurrence of (24E)-24-ethylidenecholesta-5,7-dienol, (24E)-24-propylidenecholesta-5,7-dienol, and (24Z)-24-propylidenecholesta-5,7-dienol. Lipids 1983; 18:193-7. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02534547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/1982] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Kalinovskaya N, Kuznetsova T, Popov A, Antonov S, Elyakov G. Steroid metabolites of the far eastern Holothurian Stichopus japonicus Selenka. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(83)90189-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Nes WR, Adler JH, Billheimer JT, Erickson KA, Joseph JM, Landrey JR, Marcaccio-Joseph R, Ritter KS, Conner RL. A comparison of the biological properties of androst-5-en-3 beta-ol, a series of (20R)-n-alkylpregn-5-en-3 beta-ols and 21-isopentylcholesterol with those of cholesterol. Lipids 1982; 17:257-62. [PMID: 6806558 DOI: 10.1007/bf02535113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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The delta 5-sterol, androst-5-en-3 beta-ol, which has no side chain at C-17, did not permit molting of the insect Heliothis zea, growth of either the protozoan Tetrahymena pyriformis, or the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae adapted to anaerobic conditions, nor was the sterol esterified by a mammalian microsomal ACAT preparation. However, the sterol did form a liposome with egg lecithin and, when fed to mice, did inhibit hepatic cholesterol synthesis. 21-Isopentylcholesterol also formed a liposome but neither supported the growth of the yeast nor was metabolized by the protozoan. When sterols, 20(R)-n-alkylpregn-5-en-3 beta-ols, with side chains of varying lengths were added to the medium of the protozoan, maximal esterification with fatty acids occurred with the 20(R)-n-pentyl derivative, and maximal inhibition of tetrahymanol formation occurred with the n-butyl, n-pentyl, and n-hexyl derivatives. In all of the assays cholesterol showed a positive response, either permitting molting or growth, being metabolized, inhibiting sterol or tetrahymanol synthesis, or forming a liposome.
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