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Mechanisms of bioactivities of fucoidan from the brown seaweed fucus vesiculosus L. Of the barents sea

O. Pozharitskaya, E. Obluchinskaya, A. Shikov,
2021

The aim of this study was to elucidate some mechanisms of radical scavenging and the anti-inflammatory, anti-hyperglycemic, and anti-coagulant bioactivities of high molecular weight fucoidan from Fucus vesiculosus in several in vitro models. Fucoidan has displayed potent 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picryl hydrazil radical scavenging and reduction power activities. It significantly inhibits the cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) enzyme (IC50 4.3 µg mL−1) with a greater selectivity index (lg(IC80 COX-2/ IC80COX-1), −1.55) than the synthetic non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug indomethacin (lg(IC80 COX-2/IC80COX-1), −0.09). A concentration-dependent inhibition of hyaluronidase enzyme with an IC50 of 2.9 µg mL−1 was observed. Fucoidan attenuated the lipopolysaccharide-induced expression of mitogen-activated protein kinase p38. Our findings suggest that the inhibition of dipeptidyl peptidase-IV (DPP-IV) (IC50 1.11 µg mL−1) is one of the possible mechanisms involved in the anti-hyperglycemic activity of fucoidan. At a concentration of 3.2 µg mL−1, fucoidan prolongs the activated partial thromboplastin time and thrombin time by 1.5-fold and 2.5-fold compared with a control, respectively. A significant increase of prothrombin time was observed after the concentration of fucoidan was increased above 80 µg mL−1. This evidenced that fucoidan may have an effect on intrinsic/common pathways and little effect on the extrinsic mechanism. This study sheds light on the multiple pathways of the bioactivities of fucoidan. As far as we know, the inhibition of hyaluronidase and DPP-IV by high molecular fucoidan was studied for the first time in this work. Our results and literature data suggest that molecular weight, sulfate content, fucose content, and polyphenols may contribute to these activities. It seems that high molecular weight fucoidan has promising therapeutic applications in different pharmacological settings. Anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-coagulant drugs have been used for the management of complications of COVID19. Taken as a whole, fucoidan could be considered as a prospective candidate for the treatment of patients with COVID19; however, additional research in this field is required. © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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  • O. Pozharitskaya
    Murmansk Marine Biological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, MMBI, RAS, Vladimirskaya, 17, Murmansk, 183010, Russian Federation
  • E. Obluchinskaya
    St. Petersburg State Chemical Pharmaceutical University, Prof. Popov, 14, Saint-Petersburg, 197376, Russian Federation
  • A. Shikov
Название журнала
  • Marine Drugs
Том
  • 18
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  • 5
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Ключевые слова
  • cyclooxygenase 2; dipeptidyl peptidase IV; fucoidin; fucose; hyaluronidase; indometacin; lipopolysaccharide; mitogen activated protein kinase p38; polyphenol; sulfate; anticoagulation; antidiabetic activity; antiinflammatory activity; Article; biological activity; chemical composition; concentration response; controlled study; DPPH radical scavenging assay; drug potency; enzyme inhibition; Fucus vesiculosus; IC50; in vitro study; molecular weight; nonhuman; partial thromboplastin time; protein expression; thrombin time
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  • MDPI AG
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  • journal article
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  • CC
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  • Свободная лицензия
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  • scopus