Institut für Pharmazeutische Biologie und Biotechnologie, Heinrich-Heine Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany.
Microb Biotechnol. 2010 Sep;3(5):544-63. doi: 10.1111/j.1751-7915.2010.00179.x. Epub 2010 May 23.
Marine bacteria and fungi are of considerable importance as new promising sources of a huge number of biologically active products. Some of these marine species live in a stressful habitat, under cold, lightless and high pressure conditions. Surprisingly, a large number of species with high diversity survive under such conditions and produce fascinating and structurally complex natural products. Up till now, only a small number of microorganisms have been investigated for bioactive metabolites, yet a huge number of active substances with some of them featuring unique structural skeletons have been isolated. This review covers new biologically active natural products published recently (2007-09) and highlights the chemical potential of marine microorganisms, with focus on bioactive products as well as on their mechanisms of action.
海洋细菌和真菌是非常重要的新的有前途的生物活性产物来源。这些海洋物种中的一些生活在恶劣的环境中,处于寒冷、无光和高压的条件下。令人惊讶的是,大量具有高度多样性的物种在这种条件下生存,并产生迷人的、结构复杂的天然产物。到目前为止,只有少数微生物被用于生物活性代谢物的研究,但已经分离出了大量具有独特结构骨架的活性物质。本综述涵盖了最近(2007-09 年)发表的具有生物活性的新型天然产物,并强调了海洋微生物的化学潜力,重点是生物活性产物及其作用机制。