TY - JOUR
KW - Microbiology
KW - Marine microoganisms
KW - Defense
KW - Beneficial communication
KW - Biofilms
KW - Oxidative burst
KW - Antibiotic activity
KW - Quorum sensing control
KW - GREEN-ALGA ULVA
KW - GRACILARIA-CONFERTA RHODOPHYTA
KW - MAKONBU LAMINARIA-JAPONICA
KW - ICE-ICE DISEASE
KW - KAPPAPHYCUS-ALVAREZII GIGARTINALES
KW - PRIONITIS-LANCEOLATA RHODOPHYTA
KW - SEAWEED SECONDARY METABOLITES
KW - CHONDRUS-CRISPUS RHODOPHYTA
KW - CROSS-SPECIES INDUCTION
KW - GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA
AU - Franz Goecke
AU - Antje Labes
AU - Jutta Wiese
AU - Johannes Imhoff
AB - We review research from the last 40 yr on macroalgal?bacterial interactions. Marine macroalgae have been challenged throughout their evolution by microorganisms and have developed in a world of microbes. Therefore, it is not surprising that a complex array of interactions has evolved between macroalgae and bacteria which basically depends on chemical interactions of various kinds. Bacteria specifically associate with particular macroalgal species and even to certain parts of the algal body. Although the mechanisms of this specificity have not yet been fully elucidated, ecological functions have been demonstrated for some of the associations. Though some of the chemical response mechanisms can be clearly attributed to either the alga or to its epibiont, in many cases the producers as well as the mechanisms triggering the biosynthesis of the biologically active compounds remain ambiguous. Positive macroalgal?bacterial interactions include phytohormone production, morphogenesis of macroalgae triggered by bacterial products, specific antibiotic activities affecting epibionts and elicitation of oxidative burst mechanisms. Some bacteria are able to prevent biofouling or pathogen invasion, or extend the defense mechanisms of the macroalgae itself. Deleterious macroalgal?bacterial interactions induce or generate algal diseases. To inhibit settlement, growth and biofilm formation by bacteria, macroalgae influence bacterial metabolism and quorum sensing, and produce antibiotic compounds. There is a strong need to investigate the bacterial communities living on different coexisting macroalgae using new technologies, but also to investigate the production, localization and secretion of the biological active metabolites involved in those possible ecological interactions.
BT - Marine Ecology Progress Series
N1 - WOS:000279054000022
N2 - We review research from the last 40 yr on macroalgal?bacterial interactions. Marine macroalgae have been challenged throughout their evolution by microorganisms and have developed in a world of microbes. Therefore, it is not surprising that a complex array of interactions has evolved between macroalgae and bacteria which basically depends on chemical interactions of various kinds. Bacteria specifically associate with particular macroalgal species and even to certain parts of the algal body. Although the mechanisms of this specificity have not yet been fully elucidated, ecological functions have been demonstrated for some of the associations. Though some of the chemical response mechanisms can be clearly attributed to either the alga or to its epibiont, in many cases the producers as well as the mechanisms triggering the biosynthesis of the biologically active compounds remain ambiguous. Positive macroalgal?bacterial interactions include phytohormone production, morphogenesis of macroalgae triggered by bacterial products, specific antibiotic activities affecting epibionts and elicitation of oxidative burst mechanisms. Some bacteria are able to prevent biofouling or pathogen invasion, or extend the defense mechanisms of the macroalgae itself. Deleterious macroalgal?bacterial interactions induce or generate algal diseases. To inhibit settlement, growth and biofilm formation by bacteria, macroalgae influence bacterial metabolism and quorum sensing, and produce antibiotic compounds. There is a strong need to investigate the bacterial communities living on different coexisting macroalgae using new technologies, but also to investigate the production, localization and secretion of the biological active metabolites involved in those possible ecological interactions.
PY - 2010
SP - 267
EP - 299
T2 - Marine Ecology Progress Series
TI - Chemical interactions between marine macroalgae and bacteria
UR - http://oceanrep.geomar.de/8734/
VL - 409
ER -