Discovery of an Antarctic Ascidian-Associated Uncultivated Verrucomicrobia with Antimelanoma Palmerolide Biosynthetic Potential

Citation

Murray et al. (2021). mSphere 6 (6)

Names (1)

“Synoicihabitans palmerolidicus”

Subjects

Microbiology Molecular Biology

Abstract

Palmerolide A has potential as a chemotherapeutic agent to target melanoma. We interrogated the microbiome of the Antarctic ascidian, Synoicum adareanum , using a cultivation-independent high-throughput sequencing and bioinformatic strategy.

Authors

• Murray, Alison E. (first)
• Lo, Chien-Chi (additional)
• Daligault, Hajnalka E. (additional)
• Avalon, Nicole E. (additional)
• Read, Robert W. (additional)
• Davenport, Karen W. (additional)
• Higham, Mary L. (additional)
• Kunde, Yuliya (additional)
• Dichosa, Armand E. K. (additional)
• Baker, Bill J. (additional)
• Chain, Patrick S. G. (additional)

Publication date

2021-12-22

DOI

10.1128/msphere.00759-21