Halichondria

Halichondria
Halichondria panicea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Halichondrida
Family: Halichondriidae
Genus: Halichondria
Fleming, 1828[1]
Species

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Halichondria is a genus of marine demosponges belonging to the family Halichondriidae.[1][2] These are massive, amorphous sponges with clearly separated inner and outer skeletons consisting of bundles of spicules arranged in a seemingly random pattern.

This genus of sponges became important through the discovery of cell division limiting properties of the extract Halichondrin B, which inhibits cell mitosis. The drug Eribulin, a related compound and an inhibitor of microtubule function, has become an important chemotherapy treatment for certain types of cancer.[3][4][5][6][7]

Species

  • Halichondria adelpha
  • Halichondria agglomerans
  • Halichondria aldabrensis
  • Halichondria arenacea
  • Halichondria arenosa
  • Halichondria armata
  • Halichondria aspera
  • Halichondria attenuata
  • Halichondria axinelloides
  • Halichondria bergquistae
  • Halichondria bowerbanki
  • Halichondria brunnea
  • Halichondria cebimarensis
  • Halichondria coerulea
  • Halichondria colossea
  • Halichondria contorta
  • Halichondria convolvens
  • Halichondria cornuloides
  • Halichondria corrugata
  • Halichondria cristata
  • Halichondria cylindrata
  • Halichondria darwinensis
  • Halichondria diversispiculata
  • Halichondria dubia
  • Halichondria fragilis
  • Halichondria glabrata
  • Halichondria granulata
  • Halichondria heterorhaphis
  • Halichondria incrustans
  • Halichondria intermedia
  • Halichondria knowltoni
  • Halichondria labiata
  • Halichondria lambei
  • Halichondria lendenfeldi
  • Halichondria leuconoides
  • Halichondria longispicula
  • Halichondria lutea
  • Halichondria magniconulosa
  • Halichondria melanodocia
  • Halichondria miggottea
  • Halichondria minuta
  • Halichondria moorei
  • Halichondria normani
  • Halichondria oblonga
  • Halichondria okadai
  • Halichondria osculum
  • Halichondria oshoro
  • Halichondria panicea
  • Halichondria pelliculata
  • Halichondria phakellioides
  • Halichondria prostrata
  • Halichondria renieroides
  • Halichondria ridleyi
  • Halichondria semitubulosa
  • Halichondria sitiens
  • Halichondria stylata
  • Halichondria sulfurea
  • Halichondria surrubicunda
  • Halichondria syringea
  • Halichondria tenebrica
  • Halichondria tenera
  • Halichondria tenuiderma
  • Halichondria tenuiramosa
  • Halichondria tenuispiculata
  • Halichondria vansoesti
  • Halichondria velamentosa

References

  1. 1 2 van Soest, R. (2014). R. W. M. Van Soest, N. Boury-Esnault, J. N. A. Hooper, K. Rützler, N. J. de Voogd, B. Alvarez de Glasby, E. Hajdu, A. B. Pisera, R. Manconi, C. Schoenberg, D. Janussen, K. R. Tabachnick, M. Klautau, B. Picton, M. Kelly & J. Vacelet, eds. "Halichondria Fleming, 1828". World Porifera database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  2. ↑ A systematic revision of the central West Atlantic: Halichondrida (Demospongiae, Porifera). Part III: Description of valid species
  3. ↑ Towle, Murray J.; Salvato, Kathleen A.; Budrow, Jacqueline; Wels, Bruce F.; Kuznetsov, Galina; Aalfs, Kimberley K.; Welsh, Susan; Zheng, Wanjun; Seletsk, Boris M.; Palme, Monica H.; Habgood, Gregory J.; Singer, Lori A.; Dipietro, Lucian V.; Wang, Yuan; Chen, Jack J.; Quincy, David A.; Davis, Ashley; Yoshimatsu, Kentaro; Kishi, Yoshito; Yu, Melvin J.; Littlefield, Bruce A. (2 February 2001). "In vitro and in vivo anticancer activities of synthetic macrocyclic ketone analogues of halichondrin B". Cancer Research. 61 (3): 1013–1021. PMID 11221827.
  4. ↑ Yu, Melvin J.; Kishi, Yoshito; Littlefield, Bruce A. (2005). "Discovery of E7389, a fully synthetic macrocyclic ketone analogue of halichondrin B". In Newman, David J.; Kingston, David G.I.; Cragg, Gordon M. Anticancer agents from natural products. Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-8493-1863-4. OCLC 57169963.
  5. ↑ Hirata, Yoshimasa; Uemura, Daisuke (January 1986). "Halichondrins - antitumor polyether macrolides from a marine sponge" (PDF). Pure and Applied Chemistry. 58 (5): 701–710. doi:10.1351/pac198658050701.
  6. ↑ Bai, Ruoli L.; Paull, Kenneth D.; Herald, Cherry L.; Malspeis, Louis; Pettit, George R.; Hamel, Ernest (25 August 1991). "Halichondrin B and Homohalichondrin B, Marine Natural Products Binding in the Vinca Domain of Tubulin. Discovery of tubulin-based mechanism of action by analysis of differential cytotoxicity data". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 266 (24): 15882–15889. PMID 1874739.
  7. ↑ Jordan, M.A.; Kamath, K.; Manna, T.; Okouneva, T.; Miller, H.P.; Davis, C.; Littlefield, B.A.; Wilson, L. (July 2005). "The primary antimitotic mechanism of action of the synthetic halichondrin E7389 is suppression of microtubule growth". Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 4 (7): 1086–1095. doi:10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-04-0345. PMID 16020666.


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