Farag, Mohamed A., Porzel, Andrea, Al-Hammady, Montasser A., Hegazy, Mohamed-Elamir F., Meyer, Achim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4345-274X, Mohamed, Tarik A., Westphal, Hildegard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7324-6122 and Wessjohann, Ludger A. (2016) Soft Corals Biodiversity in the Egyptian Red Sea: A Comparative MS and NMR Metabolomics Approach of Wild and Aquarium Grown Species. Journal of Proteome Research, 15 (4). pp. 1274-1287. DOI https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.6b00002.

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Abstract

Marine life has developed unique metabolic and physiologic capabilities and advanced symbiotic relationships to survive in the varied and complex marine ecosystems. Herein, metabolite composition of the soft coral genus Sarcophyton was profiled with respect to its species and different habitats along the coastal Egyptian Red Sea via 1H NMR and ultra performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (UPLC–MS) large-scale metabolomics analyses. The current study extends the application of comparative secondary metabolite profiling from plants to corals revealing for metabolite compositional differences among its species via a comparative MS and NMR approach. This was applied for the first time to investigate the metabolism of 16 Sarcophyton species in the context of their genetic diversity or growth habitat. Under optimized conditions, we were able to simultaneously identify 120 metabolites including 65 diterpenes, 8 sesquiterpenes, 18 sterols, and 15 oxylipids. Principal component analysis (PCA) and orthogonal projection to latent structures-discriminant analysis (OPLS) were used to define both similarities and differences among samples. For a compound based classification of coral species, UPLC–MS was found to be more effective than NMR. The main differentiations emanate from cembranoids and oxylipids. The specific metabolites that contribute to discrimination between soft corals of S. ehrenbergi from the three different growing habitats also belonged to cembrane type diterpenes, with aquarium S. ehrenbergi corals being less enriched in cembranoids compared to sea corals. PCA using either NMR or UPLC–MS data sets was found equally effective in predicting the species origin of unknown Sarcophyton. Cyclopropane containing sterols observed in abundance in corals may act as cellular membrane protectant against the action of coral toxins, that is, cembranoids.

Document Type:	Article
Programme Area:	UNSPECIFIED
Research affiliation:	Biogeochemistry and Geology > Geoecology & Carbonate Sedimentology Infrastructure > Marine Experimental Ecology (MAREE)
Refereed:	Yes
Open Access Journal?:	No
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.6b00002
ISSN:	1535-3893
Date Deposited:	08 Jul 2019 14:46
Last Modified:	26 Mar 2024 13:28
URI:	http://cris.leibniz-zmt.de/id/eprint/2278

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