Iodine-containing complexes of the Black Sea algaPhyllophora nervosa

Iodine-containing complexes have been isolated from a Black Sea red alga. Information is given showing their carbohydrate nature. The causes of the hydrophobic peptide-peptide interaction in the complex are discussed.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Physicochemical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Odessa. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 772–776, November–December, 1983.