Purification and characterization of photosensitizing hemolytic toxin from harmful red tide phytoplankton, Heterocapsa circularisquama
Purification and characterization of photosensitizing hemolytic toxin from harmful red tide phytoplankton, Heterocapsa circularisquama
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DOI:
10.1016/j.aquatox.2005.04.005
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发表时间:
2005-07-30
影响因子:
4.5
通讯作者:
Oda, T
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作者:
Miyazaki, Y;Nakashima, T;Oda, T
We have previously found that the methanol extract prepared from Heterocapsa circularisquaina, a harmful red rid dinoflagellate, showed light-dependent hemolytic activity toward rabbit erythrocytes. Interestingly, the cytotoxicity of the extract against HeLa cells was also strictly light-dependent, and no significant toxic effect was observed even at very high concentration in the dark. In this study, the hemolytic agents present in the extract were purified by several chromatographic procedures. Final HPLC analysis revealed that there are at least two hemolytic toxins with different retention times (H2-a and 113-a), which have similar absorption spectra. Although 113-a fraction was contaminated by a trace amount of H2-a, H2-a fraction gave a single peak on a three-dimensional chromatogram. The results of fast atom bombardment (FAB)-mass spectrometry (MS) and electrospray ionization quadrupole time-of-flight (ESI Q-TOF) mass spectrometry analyses suggested that the molecular weight of H2-a was 566. Since nuclear magnetic resonance analysis indicated the presence of a pyrrole ring in H2-a molecule, H2-a may be a porphyrin derivative with similar structure of pyropheophorbide a methyl ester, a well-known photosensitizing hemolyfic compound. However, some structural and physicochemical differences were observed between H2-a and pyropheophorbide a methyl ester. Since H2-a showed potent photosensitizing cytotoxicity toward HeLa cells in a concentration-dependent manner as well as hemolytic activity, H2-a may be a novel porphyrin derivative with photosensitizing hemolytic cytotoxicity. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.