Antimicrobial activities of extracts from tropical Atlantic marine plants against marine pathogens and saprophytes

By S. Engel, M. Puglisi, P. Jensen, W. Fenical. 2006

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Allelochemicals produced by Caribbean macroalgae and cyanobacteria have species-specific effects on reef coral microorganisms (2011, background): “Several other studies have surveyed both tropical (Ballantine et al. 1987; Engel et al. 2006) and temperate macroalgae (Cetrulo and Hay 2000) and illustrate the ubiquitous nature of marine chemical defenses.”
Competition Among Sessile Organisms on Coral Reefs (2011, background): “Similar to the chemical defenses of sponges, macroalgae actively synthesize compounds that prevent microbial disease, biofouling, and herbivory (Boyd et al. 1999, Engel et al. 2006, Puglisi et al. 2007).”
Chemical interactions between marine macroalgae and bacteria (2010, background): “From an ecological perspective, antimicrobial defense mechanisms of marine macroalgae may reduce epibiosis, inhibit premature decomposition and directly provide resistance to infectious diseases (Engel et al. 2006).”
Seaweed defence against bacteria: a poly-brominated 2-heptanone from the red alga Bonnemaisonia hamifera inhibits bacterial colonisation (2008, background): “All of the obtained extracts were combined to a single crude extract which was then subjected to solvent partitioning following Kubanek et al. (2003).”