Bacterial symbionts associated with stingless bee Melipona scutellaris as sources of bioactive natural products

• Grant number: 14/17620-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: November 01, 2014
• End date: July 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Chemistry - Organic Chemistry
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Mônica Tallarico Pupo
• Grantee: Carla Menegatti
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto (FCFRP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Natural products play an important role in drug discovery. Several drugs have been discovered or developed from microbial natural products hits and leads showing a great efficiency of microorganisms to synthesize compounds with high biological potential. It is known that social insects are subjected to climate and population conditions that increase their susceptibility to parasites. Therefore, these insects have developed an evolutionary defense mechanism consisting in symbiotic association with bacteria that can biosynthesize antimicrobial products against pathogens. Based on this ecological evidence, this project proposes the study of natural products biosynthesized by symbiotic microorganisms associated to the species of stingless bee Melipona scutellaris. For this, the symbiotic microorganisms will be isolated from this species of bee and it brood cell, cultured in the laboratory for obtaining extracts, which will be fractionated for the isolation and identification of natural products. The project also aims to correlate natural products produced by the microorganisms to possible ecological and biological functions. (AU)

Scientific publications

(4)

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RODRIGUEZ-HERNANDEZ, DIEGO; MELO, WEILAN G. P.; MENEGATTI, CARLA; LOURENZON, VITOR B.; DO NASCIMENTO, FABIO S.; PUPO, MONICA T.. Actinobacteria associated with stingless bees biosynthesize bioactive polyketides against bacterial pathogens. NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY, v. 43, n. 25, p. 10109-10117, JUL 7 2019. (17/01188-4, 13/50954-0, 14/17620-4, 16/15576-3, 15/01001-6, 18/07153-0)

MENEGATTI, CARLA; LOURENZON, VITOR BRUNO; RODRIGUEZ-HERNANDEZ, DIEGO; DA PAIXAO MELO, WEILAN GOMES; GOMES FERREIRA, LEONARDO LUIZ; ANDRICOPULO, ADRIANO DEFINI; DO NASCIMENTO, FABIO SANTOS; PUPO, MONICA TALLARICO. Meliponamycins: Antimicrobials from Stingless Bee-Associated Streptomyces sp.. Journal of Natural Products, v. 83, n. 3, SI, p. 610-616, MAR 27 2020. (14/17620-4, 13/07600-3, 16/15576-3, 18/07153-0, 17/01188-4, 13/50954-0, 15/01001-6)

MENEGATTI, CARLA; DA PAIXAO MELO, WEILAN GOMES; CARRAO, DANIEL BLASCKE; MORAES DE OLIVEIRA, ANDERSON RODRIGO; DO NASCIMENTO, FABIO SANTOS; LOPES, NORBERTO PEPORINE; PUPO, MONICA TALLARICO. Paenibacillus polymyxa Associated with the Stingless Bee Melipona scutellaris Produces Antimicrobial Compounds against Entomopathogens. Journal of Chemical Ecology, v. 44, n. 12, p. 1158-1169, DEC 2018. (09/54098-6, 14/17620-4, 13/50954-0, 14/50265-3, 15/01001-6)

MENEGATTI, CARLA; LOURENZON, VITOR BRUNO; RODRIGUEZ-HERNANDEZ, DIEGO; DA PAIXAO MELO, WEILAN GOMES; GOMES FERREIRA, LEONARDO LUIZ; ANDRICOPULO, ADRIANO DEFINI; DO NASCIMENTO, FABIO SANTOS; PUPO, MONICA TALLARICO. Meliponamycins: Antimicrobials from Stingless Bee-Associated Streptomyces sp.. Journal of Natural Products, v. 83, n. 3, p. 7-pg., 2020-03-27. (18/07153-0, 13/07600-3, 13/50954-0, 16/15576-3, 15/01001-6, 14/17620-4, 17/01188-4)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

MENEGATTI, Carla. Bacterial symbionts associated with the stingless bee Melipona scutellaris as sources of bioactive natural products. 2016. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC) Ribeirão Preto.