The conifer biomarkers dehydroabietic and abietic acids are widespread in Cyanobacteria

Terpenes, a large family of natural products with important applications, are commonly associated with plants and fungi. The diterpenoids dehydroabietic and abietic acids are defense metabolites abundant in resin, and are used as biomarkers for conifer plants. We report here for the first time that the two diterpenoid acids are produced by members of several genera of cyanobacteria. Dehydroabietic acid was isolated from two cyanobacterial strains and its identity was confirmed spectroscopically. One or both of the diterpenoids were detected in the cells of phylogenetically diverse cyanobacteria belonging to four cyanobacterial ‘botanical orders’, from marine, estuarine and inland environments. Dehydroabietic acid was additionally found in culture supernatants. We investigated the natural role of the two resin acids in cyanobacteria using ecologically-relevant bioassays and found that the compounds inhibited the growth of a small coccoid cyanobacterium. The unexpected discovery of dehydroabietic and abietic acids in a wide range of cyanobacteria has implications for their use as plant biomarkers.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Scientific Reports

• Publication date

  2016-03-21

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/srep23436PMID 26996104PMCID 4800451
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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