Isolation and characterization of hepatotoxic microcystin homologs from the filamentous freshwater cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. strain 152.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
K SivonenS I Niemelä

Abstract

A strain of the filamentous cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. isolated from a lake in Finland was found to produce at least nine hepatotoxic peptides with chemical and toxicological properties similar to those of the hepatotoxic hepta- and pentapeptides produced by other cyanobacteria. Toxins were isolated and purified by high-performance liquid chromatography. Amounts available for five of the purified toxins (P6, P14, P15, P16, and P18) were adequate for high-performance liquid chromatography amino acid analysis and determination of molecular weight by fast-atom bombardment-mass spectrometry (FAB-MS). Quantities of three toxins (P14, P15, and P16) were adequate for further analysis by high-resolution FAB-MS, FAB-MS/MS, and 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance. Analysis showed that the toxins are new types of microcystin-LR homologs. Microcystin-LR contains equimolar amounts of D-alanine, L-leucine, D-erythro-beta-methylaspartic acid, L-arginine, ADDA (3-amino-9-methoxy-2,6,8-trimethyl-10-phenyl-4,6-decadienoic acid), D-glutamic acid, and N-methyldehydroalanine (molecular weight [MW], 994). Nostoc sp. strain 152 was found to produce the following microcystin-LR homologs: (i) P6 contains an extra methylene group most probably due to the prese...Continue Reading

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