A microbial factory for defensive kahalalides in a tripartite marine symbiosis

Science56.90
Volume: 364, Issue: 6445
Published: Jun 14, 2019
Abstract
A little help from a friend The Hawaiian sea slug Elysia rufescens grazes on an alga called Bryopsis sp. The alga defends itself from predators using peptide toxins decorated with fatty acids, called kahalalides. Zan et al. wondered if a third party was involved in toxin production (see the Perspective by Mascuch and Kubanek). Within the alga, a species of bacterium with a very reduced genome was discovered to be a factory for the nonribosomal...
Paper Details
Title
A microbial factory for defensive kahalalides in a tripartite marine symbiosis
Published Date
Jun 14, 2019
Journal
Volume
364
Issue
6445
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