Natural products and their derivatives have served as powerful therapeutics against pathogenic microorganisms and are the mainstay of our currently available treatment options to combat infections. As part of our ongoing search for antimicrobial natural products from marine organisms, one fraction prepared from the Arctic marine bryozoan <i>Securiflustra securifrons</i> was found to be active against ...

The rise in frequency of antibiotic resistant pathogenic bacteria makes the need for new treatment options for previously curable bacterial infections ever more important. In the process of discovering and developing antibacterial agents, one powerful approach has been borrowing wisdom from nature. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are critical components of the innate immune systems found in almost all ...

Isolation of bioactive products from the marine environment is considered a very promising approach to identify new compounds that can be used for further drug development. In this work we have isolated three new compounds from the purpuroine family by mass-guided preparative HPLC; purpuroine K-M. These compounds where screened for antibacterial- and antifungal activity, antibiofilm formation and ...

This study reports the isolation of two novel cysteine-rich antibacterial peptides, turgencin A and turgencin B, along with their oxidized derivatives, from the Arctic marine colonial ascidian <i>Synoicum turgens</i>. The peptides are post-translationally modified, containing six cysteines with an unusual disulfide connectivity of Cys<sup>1</i>-Cys⁶, Cys²-Cys⁵, and ...