Marine microorganisms

Marine microorganisms have developed unique physiological and biochemical mechanisms to survive in extreme and highly competitive habitats producing unique secondary metabolites of high therapeutic value. Another of our lines of research is the bioguided study of natural products produced by fungi, bacteria and actinomycetes from marine sediment samples.

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Activation of silent metabolic pathways of marine actinomycetes: Part of our efforts focuses on the activation of unspoken pathways of the secondary metabolism of our collection of marine actinomycetes in order to stimulate the production of new compounds likely to become potential therapeutic agents or biological tools.