Asteropus simplex
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Tetractinellida
- Family: Ancorinidae
- Genus: Asteropus
- Species: Asteropus simplex
Visual Description
Specimens attributed to Asteropus simplex (museum preserved material) are pictured as irregular, encrusting to upright sponge forms with a solid, compact appearance.
Overview
Asteropus simplex is a sponge species in the family Ancorinidae.
Distribution and taxonomic status (GBIF)
GBIF lists Asteropus simplex (Carter, 1879) as an accepted species name.
Bioactive compounds (taxon-relevant chemical ecology)
Asteropus simplex has been reported as a source of the peptide Asteropine A (APA), described as a 36–amino-acid peptide containing three disulfide bonds. APA was identified as an inhibitor of sialidase (noted as an enzyme relevant to influenza virus infection).[2]
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References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Tetractinellida / Ancorinidae / Asteropus / simplex constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Kentaro Takada. Development of bioactive natural products from marine organisms. NIPPON SUISAN GAKKAISHI. 2015. https://doi.org/10.2331/suisan.81.647.