Chemical identification, antioxidant, cholinesterase inhibitory, and cytotoxic properties of fucoidan extracted from Persian Gulf Sargassum angustifolium
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Abstract: Marine macroalgal sulfated fucose-containing polysaccharides, like fucoidan, have drawn significant attention due to their biotechnological potentials, such as anti-cancer, antioxidant, and anti-cholinesterase activities. The fucoidan derived from brown macroalgae Sargassum angustifolium species (FSA) was investigated for its cytotoxic effects and alterations in cell proliferation, and cell cycle-related gene expression in the present study occurred on NB4 cell line. The results showed that FSA would induce p53, p21, pro-apoptotic genes and increase expression of the p15 gene as a cell arrest marker. Also, FSA inhibited the anti-apoptotic effect of the Bcl-2 gene and decreased dnmt-1 gene expression. FSA significantly exhibited potent 2, 2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging activity (p<0.05) with an IC50 value of 0.157 mg/mL and showed moderate anti-acetylcholinesterase activity with an IC50 value of 1.20 μg/mL. These results indicated the potential of FSA for the development of therapeutic or preventive agents of cancer and Alzheimer’s disease mainly through cytotoxic effect and AChE (acetylcholinesterase) inhibition as well as additional antioxidant capacities.
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Key words:
- fucoidan /
- Sargassum angustifolium /
- cytotoxicity /
- antioxidant /
- anti-cholinesterase
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Figure 6. Diagram of the anti-cholinesterase activity of fucoidan extracted from sargassum angustifolium. The anti-cholinesterase activity of fucoidan in concentrations of 0.01 μg/mL, 0.1 μg/mL, 1 μg/mL, 10 μg/mL, and 100 μg/mL compared with the control group (10% DMSO in buffer). The values are presented as mean±SEM of 3 independent experiments (n=3) and analyzed by one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) (*p<0.05, **p<0.01 and ***p<0.001 compared with the control group).
Table 1. Sequences of primers used in qRT-PCR
Base pair Forward (5'–3') Reverse (5'–3') Gene 111 TGGACAGGACTGAACGTCTTG CCAGCAGGTCAGCAAAGAATTTA HPRT 90 CGGTGGGGTCATTTGTGTG CGGTTCAGGTACTCAGTCATCC Bcl-2 118 ACTCATCCGATTTGGCTCTTTC CCTAGCCCCAGGATTACAAG Dnmt1 82 GATGTGCAAGCGACGACAGA GAGCAAAGGCCAGCATCCT p15 130 CCTCTCACTGTCTTGTACCCT GCGTTTGGAGTGGTAGAAATCT p21 121 TAACAGTTCCTGCATGGGCGGC AGGACAGGCACAAACACGCACC p53 Table 2. Sugar analysis of the polysaccharide from Sargassum angustifolium
Sugar Composition/% Fucose 53±2.0 Galactose 0.2±0.9 Mannose 0.3±0.7 Glucose 12.6±0.4 Uronic acids 0.36±0.5 Note: Each value represents the percentage of monosaccharides obtained in the fraction. -
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