Callyspongia truncata

Callyspongia truncata
Callyspongia truncata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Subclass: Ceractinomorpha
Order: Haplosclerida
Family: Callyspongiidae
Genus: Callyspongia
Species: C. truncata
Binomial name
Callyspongia truncata
(Lendenfeld, 1887)

Callyspongia truncata is a demosponge species in the genus Callyspongia.

Callystatin A is a polyketide natural product from the leptomycin family of antibiotics. It was first isolated in 1997 from the marine sponge Callyspongia truncata which was collected from the Goto Islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture of Japan by the Kobayashi group.[1]

References

  1. Kobayashi, M.; Higuchi, K.; Murakami, N.; Tajima, H.; Aoki, S. (1997). "Callystatin A, a potent cytotoxic polyketide from the marine sponge, Callyspongia truncata". Tetrahedron Lett. 38 (16): 2859–2862. doi:10.1016/S0040-4039(97)00482-6.

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