AlgaePub Date : 2020-09-21DOI: 10.4490/ALGAE.2020.35.8.31
M. L. Vis, S. Tiwari, Joshua R. Evans, R. Stancheva, R. Sheath, Bryan Kennedy, Janina Lee, P. Eloranta
{"title":"Revealing hidden diversity in the Sheathia arcuata morphospecies (Batrachospermales, Rhodophyta) including four new species","authors":"M. L. Vis, S. Tiwari, Joshua R. Evans, R. Stancheva, R. Sheath, Bryan Kennedy, Janina Lee, P. Eloranta","doi":"10.4490/ALGAE.2020.35.8.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4490/ALGAE.2020.35.8.31","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7628,"journal":{"name":"Algae","volume":"35 1","pages":"213-224"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48465435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AlgaePub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.4490/algae.2020.35.5.19
V. Geraldes, Lívia S. Medeiros, Stella T Lima, D. O. Alvarenga, R. Gacesa, P. Long, M. Fiore, E. Pinto
{"title":"Genetic and biochemical evidence for redundant pathways leading to mycosporine-like amino acid biosynthesis in the cyanobacterium Sphaerospermopsis torques-reginae ITEP-024","authors":"V. Geraldes, Lívia S. Medeiros, Stella T Lima, D. O. Alvarenga, R. Gacesa, P. Long, M. Fiore, E. Pinto","doi":"10.4490/algae.2020.35.5.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4490/algae.2020.35.5.19","url":null,"abstract":"Cyanobacteria have been widely reported to produce a variety of UV-absorbing mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs). Herein, we reported production of the unusual MAA, mycosporine-glycine-alanine (MGA) in the cyanobacterium Sphaerospermopsis torques-reginae ITEP-024 using a newly developed UHPLC-DAD-MS/HRMS (ultra-high performance liquid chromatography–diode array detection–high resolution tandem mass spectrometry) method. MGA had previously been first identified in a red-algae, but S. torques-reginae strain ITEP-024 is the first cyanobacteria to be reported as an MGA producer. Herein, the chemical structure of MGA is fully elucidated from one-dimensional / two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance and HRMS data analyses. MAAs are unusually produced constitutively in S. torques-reginae ITEP-024, and this production was further enhanced following UV-irradiance. It has been proposed that MAA biosynthesis proceeds in cyanobacteria from the pentose phosphate pathway intermediate sedoheptulose 7-phos-phate. Annotation of a gene cluster encoded in the genome sequence of S. torques-reginae ITEP-024 supports these gene products could catalyse the biosynthesis of MAAs. However, addition of glyphosate to cultures of S. torques-reginae ITEP-024 abolished constitutive and ultra-violet radiation induced production of MGA, shinorine and porphyra-334. This finding supports involvement of the shikimic acid pathway in the biosynthesis of MAAs by this species.","PeriodicalId":7628,"journal":{"name":"Algae","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43031637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}