Table 6.

Examples of immunosuppressive compounds

Compounds	Chemistry	Species/ order	Mode of action	References
Simplexides	Glycolopids	Plakortis simplex/Homosclerophorida	Inhibitors of T cell proliferation	Costantino et al., 1999
Polyoxygenated sterols	Sterol	Dysidea sp./Dendroceratida	IL 8 inhibitor	de Almeida Leone et al., 2000
Contignasterol	Oxygenated sterol	Petrosia contignata/Haplosclerida	Histamine release inhibitor	Takei et al., 1994
Pateamine A	Thiazole macrolide	Mycale sp./Poecilosclerida	IL-2 inhibitor	Northcote et al., 1991
Iso-iantheran A	Polyketide	Ianthella quadrangulata	Ionotropic P2Y11 receptor activation	Greve et al., 2007