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Iron (Fe) is the most important trace element in the ocean ecosystem, being a micronutrient required for phytoplankton growth and thus involved in marine primary productivity and carbon export. The dissolved Fe (dFe) is the most bioavailable fraction and about 99.9% of the dFe is complexed with organic ligands (L), the nature of which is...

Collagen from marine sources is a very attractive alternative to bovine collagen. In biomedicine, several applications of collagens derived from sponges have been described, many of which from the demospongia Chondrosia reniformis. The production of these molecules in recombinant form would allow to obtain well-defined molecular types and to...

Iron (Fe) is the most important trace element in the ocean, as it is required by phytoplankton for photosynthesis and nitrate assimilation [1]. Fe speciation is important to better understand the biogeochemical cycle and availability of this micronutrient, in particular in the Southern Ocean [2]. Dissolved Fe (dFe) concentration and speciation...

Siderophores are organic ligands involved in dissolved iron (dFe) speciation in the oceans. Their study is crucial for a better understanding of the biogeochemical cycle of Fe in the marine environment, particularly in certain areas, such as the Southern Ocean, where Fe deficiency limits marine productivity. In this study, an analytical method...

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The majority of medicines come from natural resources, and in particular a great number of bioactive molecules (more than 10,000) have been isolated until now from the marine environment, with hundreds of new compounds still being discovered every year [1]. The richest sources of sea natural products are invertebrates with Porifera being the...