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Localization and ecological significance of oroidin and sceptrin in the Caribbean sponge Agelas conifera
Richelle-Maurer, E.; De Kluijver, M.J.; Feio, S.; Gaudencio, S.; Gaspar, H.; Gomez, R.; Tavares, R.; Van de Vyver, G.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2003). Localization and ecological significance of oroidin and sceptrin in the Caribbean sponge Agelas conifera. Biochem. Syst. Ecol. 31(10): 1073-1091. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0305-1978(03)00072-3
In: Biochemical systematics and ecology. Elsevier: Oxford; New York. ISSN 0305-1978; e-ISSN 1873-2925, meer
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Trefwoorden
    Agelas conifera (Schmidt, 1870) [WoRMS]; Porifera [WoRMS]
    Marien/Kust
Author keywords
    Porifera; Agelas conifera; bromopyrrole alkaloids; localization; coraltoxicity; feeding deterrency; wounding effects

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  • Richelle-Maurer, E.
  • De Kluijver, M.J.
  • Feio, S.
  • Gaudencio, S.
  • Gaspar, H.
  • Gomez, R.
  • Tavares, R.
  • Van de Vyver, G.
  • Van Soest, R.W.M., meer

Abstract
    The Caribbean sponge Agelas conifera was found to produce a mixture of previously described bromopyrrole alkaloids of which oroidin (1) and sceptrin (2) were predominant. This sponge harboured large populations of heterotrophic bacteria but no photosynthetic symbionts (cyanobacteria). However, 1 and 2 were not associated with the bacteria but with the sponge cells as shown by their distribution in enriched cell fractions obtained by differential centrifugation and Ficoll density gradients. Spherulous cells, found in great abundance in the sponge ectosome, were assumed to be involved in the production of 1 and 2. The target compounds were detected, although in small amounts, in short-term cultures of sponge cells, validating the possibility of a continuous cell culture source. Laboratory assays showed that organic sponge extracts affected the behaviour of the coral Madracis mirabilis in causing closure and retraction of the polyps at concentrations of the combined compounds 1 and 2 (1:3.3) as low as 0.7 mg/l (0.0125% of the concentration in whole sponges). At higher concentrations (1.4 mg/l) no recovery of the polyps occurred. The extracts, at almost natural concentrations of 1 and 2, deterred feeding by the predatory reef fish Stegastis partitus, supporting other reported research. In field experiments, wounding induced a sharp increase of 1 and 2 in the sponge tissues but prolonged predator exclusion by caging and forced confrontation with coral neighbours did not yield measurable changes in 1 and 2 concentrations. All sponges were found to release measurable amounts of bromopyrrole alkaloids in seawater conditioned for 30 min. Crude and fractionated sponge extracts and pure sceptrin (2) were active against bacteria, yeast and filamentous fungi. Taken together, these results support a role of oroidin (1) and sceptrin (2) in defence mechanisms against predators and possibly against space competitors and invading and fouling organisms.

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