Microwave assisted extraction of iodine and bromine from edible seaweed for inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry determination

The feasibility of microwave energy to assist the solubilisation of edible seaweed samples by tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) has been investigated to extract iodine and bromine. Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) has been used as a multi-element detector. Variables affecting the microwave assisted extraction/solubilisation (temperature, TMAH volume, ramp time and hold time) were firstly screened by applying a fractional factorial design (2^5-1 + 2), resolution V and 2 centre points. When extracting both halogens, results showed statistical significance (confidence interval of 95%) for TMAH volume and temperature, and also for the two order interaction between both variables. Therefore, these two variables were finally optimized by a 2² + star orthogonal central composite design with 5 centre points and 2 replicates, and optimum values of 200 °C and 10 mL for temperature and TMAH volume, respectively, were found. The extraction time (ramp and hold times) was found statistically non-significant, and values of 10 and 5 min were chosen for the ramp time and the hold time, respectively. This means a fast microwave heating cycle. Repeatability of the over-all procedure has been found to be 6% for both elements, while iodine and bromine concentrations of 24.6 and 19.9 ng g⁻¹, respectively, were established for the limit of detection. Accuracy of the method was assessed by analyzing the NIES-09 (Sargasso, Sargassum fulvellum) certified reference material (CRM) and the iodine and bromine concentrations found have been in good agreement with the indicative values for this CRM. Finally, the method was applied to several edible dried and canned seaweed samples.     

海藻中的类胡萝卜素及其在食品等领域中的应用

论述了海藻中类胡萝卜素的性质、分类及其提取、分离的方法,分析了类胡萝卜素在食品等领域中的应用现状和前景,为其在食品等领域深层次的开发利用奠定基础．     

Previously undescribed antioxidative azocinyl morpholinone alkaloid from red seaweed Gracilaria opuntia with anti-cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase properties

In vitro antioxidative and anti-inflammatory bioassay-guided fractionation of the methanol: ethyl acetate crude extract of the thalli of red seaweed Gracilaria opuntia collected from the Gulf of Mannar led to the isolation of a new morpholine alkaloid 3-(2-ethyl-6-((3Z,7Z)-1,2,5,6-tetrahydroazocin-5-yl)hexyl) morpholin-6-one. The substituted azocinyl morpholinone recorded significant 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl-hydrazil free radical scavenging activities (IC₅₀ ~ 0.086 mg/mL) compared to the commercially available antioxidants, butylated hydroxyanisole, butylated hydroxytoluene, and α-tocopherol (IC₅₀ > 0.20 mg/mL). The title compound showed greater cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitory activity (IC₅₀ 0.84 mg/mL) in conjunction with in vitro 5-lipoxidase inhibitory activity (IC₅₀ 0.85 mg/mL) than non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). The test compound had better selectivity index (COX-1/COX-2 ratio) (1.17 mg/mL) compared to aspirin (0.02 mg/mL), Na salicylate (0.73 mg/mL) and ibuprofen (0.44 mg/mL). The animals challenged with the substituted azocinyl morpholinone significantly mitigated the carrageenan-induced paw edema in time-dependent manner till the end of 6 h.     

山东威海海藻中细菌分离和多样性分析

从我国东部沿海城市威海金海滩(北纬36°41′～37°35′,东经121°11′～122°42′)采取海藻样品.采用可培分析方法得到55株菌.基于16SrDNA序列分析,发现这55株菌共分为5个纲,14个属.其中芽孢菌纲(Bacilli),γ-变形菌纲(Gammaproteobacteria)为优势种群,分别占总数的20%和56.4%.此外还分离获得2株具有琼胶降解活性的菌株,都属于海杆菌属(Marinimicrobium).部分菌株比已报道菌株相似度低,表明海藻样品具有较好的细菌多样性,并蕴藏着巨大的微生物资源.     

Characterization of Fatty Acids,Polysaccharides, Amino Acids,and Minerals in Marine Macroalga Chaetomorpha crassa and Evaluation of Their Potentials in Skin Cosmetics

Cosmetic industries are highly committed to finding natural sources of functional active constituents preferable to safer materials to meet consumers’ demands. Marine macroalgae have diversified bioactive constituents and possess potential benefits in beauty care products. Hence, the present study was carried out to characterize the biochemical profile of marine macroalga Chaetomorpha crassa by using different techniques for revealing its cosmetic potentials. In results, the FTIR study characterized the presence of different bioactive functional groups that are responsible for many skin-beneficial compounds whereas six and fifteen different important phycocompounds were found in GCMS analysis of ethanolic and methanolic extracts, respectively. In the saccharide profile of C. crassa, a total of eight different carbohydrate derivatives were determined by the HRLCMS Q-TOF technique, which showed wide varieties of cosmetic interest. In ICP AES analysis, Si was found to be highest whereas Cu was found to be lowest among other elements. A total of twenty-one amino acids were measured by the HRLCMS-QTOF technique, which revealed the highest amount of the amino acid, Aspartic acid (1207.45 nmol/mL) and tyrosine (106.77 nmol/mL) was found to be the lowest in amount among other amino acids. Their cosmetic potentials have been studied based on previous research studies. The incorporation of seaweed-based bioactive components in cosmetics has been extensively growing due to its skin health-promoting effects.     

Identification of arsenic species in sheep‐wool extracts by different chromatographic methods

Sheep on the island of North Ronaldsay (Orkney, UK) feed mostly on seaweed, which contains high concentrations of dimethylated arsenoribosides. Wool of these sheep contains dimethylated, monomethylated and inorganic arsenic, in addition to unidentified arsenic species in unbound and complexed form. Chromatographic techniques using different separation mechanisms and detectors enabled us to identify five arsenic species in water extracts of wool. The wool contained 5.2 ± 2.3 µg arsenic per gram wool. About 80% of the arsenic in wool was extracted by boiling the wool with water. The main species is dimethylarsenic, which accounted for about 75 to 85%, monomethylated arsenic at about 5% and the rest is inorganic arsenic. Depending on the separation method and condition, the chromatographic recovery of arsenic species was between 45% for the anion exchange column, 68% for the size exclusion chromatography (SEC) and 82% for the cation exchange column. The SEC revealed the occurrence of two unknown arsenic compounds, of which one was probably a high molecular mass species. Since chromatographic recovery can be improved by either treating the extract with CuCl/HCl (CAT: 90%) or longer storage of the sample (CAT: 105%), in particular for methylated arsenic species, it can be assumed that labile arsenic–protein‐like coordination species occur in the extract, which cannot be speciated with conventional chromatographic methods. It is clear from our study of sheep wool that there can be different kinds of ‘hidden’ arsenic in biological matrices, depending on the extraction, separation and detection methods used. Hidden species can be defined as species that are not recordable by the detection system, not extractable or do not elute from chromatographic columns. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Symplectic meanders

Analogous to the 𝔰𝔩(n) case, we address the computation of the index of seaweed subalgebras of 𝔰𝔭(2n) by introducing graphical representations called symplectic meanders. Formulas for the algebra’s index may be computed by counting the connected components of its associated meander. In certain cases, formulas for the index can be given in terms of elementary functions.     

浙江底栖海藻及其区系分析

报道浙江潮间带底栖海藻211种，其中蓝藻门11种、绿藻门34种、褐藻门38种、红藻门128种。根据地理分布分析，其中有2／3的藻种由中国南海随台湾暖流北上而传入浙江海藻，来自北方的温带藻种及本地种均不多，因此，浙江海区以亚热带藻种占绝对优势，达69．2％，热带成分1．4％，温带成分26．5％，本地种2．4％。同时，与南北海藻区系的相似系数比较以及对R／P及RdC/P值（R：红藻，P：褐藻，C：绿藻）的分析，均显示浙江海区海藻属于亚植物区系。     

1H-NMR study of Na alginates extracted from Sargassum spp. in relation to metal biosorption

The use of a number of species of marine brown algae in the implementation of bioremediation strategies for toxic heavy metals is being considered and evaluated. The biosorption capacity of these algae for heavy metals resides mainly in a group of linear polysaccharides known as alginates that occur as a gel in the algal thallus. The potential for selective metal binding by the biomass of two species of Sargassum was evaluated by ¹H-NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) following a high temperature, alkaline extraction and purification of their alginate polysaccharide. The alkaline extraction protocol applied to Sargassum fluitans and Sargassum siliquosum yielded alginate samples of low viscosity, suitable for direct acquisition of well-resolved spectra. Estimates of both the ratio of β-d-mannopyranuronosyl (M) and α-l-gulopyranuronosyl (G) residues along the polymer chain and the frequencies of occurrence of diad uronic acid residue pairs were obtained. Guluronic acid (G) was the major component in all, extracts and the GG diads accounted for more than 49% of the polymer diads. Whereas the performance of Sargassum spp. in the metal biosorption process is a function of both its alginate content and composition, the occurrence of “G-blocks” in both purified alginates and in the raw brown seaweed is critical because it results in a well-established selectivity for divalentions, potentially increasing the commercial effectiveness of targeted biosorption as a means of remediation.     

海藻多糖中硫酸基含量对抑制草酸钙晶体形成和修复受损伤肾小管上皮细胞的影响

采用X射线衍射法、傅里叶变换红外光谱仪、扫描电子显微镜、ζ电位仪和电感耦合等离子体发射光谱仪,比较了4种分子量相近(约 3 700 Da)、但硫酸基(—OSO₃^-)含量不同的降解海藻多糖对草酸钙(CaC₂O₄)晶体生长的调控作用;采用细胞实验比较了它们对受损伤肾小管上皮细胞(HK-2)的修复能力。这4种海藻多糖分别是降解紫菜多糖(PY-1)、降解龙须菜多糖(GL-2)、降解羊栖菜多糖(SF-3)和降解裙带菜多糖(UP-4),其—OSO₃^-含量分别为17.9%、13.3%、8.2%和5.5%。结果表明,这4种多糖均能够抑制一水草酸钙(COM)生长,诱导二水草酸钙(COD)生成,增加溶液中可溶性 Ca²⁺离子浓度,增加晶体表面的 ζ 电位绝对值,从而降低晶体的聚集程度;这些多糖均能修复被草酸氧化损伤的HK-2细胞,提高细胞活力和超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)活力,降低丙二醛(MDA)的释放量。结果表明,多糖中—OSO₃^-含量越高,多糖对 CaC₂O₄晶体生长的抑制作用和对受损伤 HK-2细胞的修复作用均越强。