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Secondary metabolites of cyanobacteria from Cape Verde Archipelago act as NO donors with potential application in dermatology and cosmetics

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dc.contributor.authorMorone, Janaína
dc.contributor.authorHentschke, Guilherme Scotta
dc.contributor.authorOliveira, Isabel Benta
dc.contributor.authorVasconcelos, Vítor
dc.contributor.authorMartins, Rosário
dc.contributor.authorLopes, Graciliana
dc.contributor.authorMartins, Rosário
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-27T12:36:14Z
dc.date.available2025-03-27T12:36:14Z
dc.date.issued2025-03
dc.description.abstractNitric oxide (NO) is a versatile mediator implicated in a variety of physiological processes, with the ultimate goal of maintaining organism homeostasis. In the present work, aqueous extracts from ten cyanobacteria strains isolated from the Cape Verde archipelago were explored as potential NO donors. None of the strains are toxin producers, as demonstrated by PCR and LC-MS analysis. The extracts were mainly composed by phycobiliproteins (9.1 to 43.8 %), followed by polysaccharides (7.7 to 35.1 %), phenols (1.49 to 3.3 %) and chlorophylls (0 to 0.45 %). All the extracts revealed antioxidant potential, with Salileptolyngbya sp. LEGE 181184 presenting the lowest IC 1 50 value for superoxide anion radical scavenging (46.50 μ g mL ), and ability to inhibit the proinflammatory enzyme lipoxygenase (LOX), Salileptolyngbya sp. LEGE 181150 presenting an IC positive control quercetin (28.49 and 31.77 μ g mL 1 25 similar to the , respectively), highlighting the potential of cyanobacteria extracts as natural ingredients for LOX inhibition. All the extracts were able to increase the NO produced by the macrophage cell line RAW 264.7 through iNOS modulation (from concentrations starting in 12.5 μ g mL 1 ), in a similar mechanism and superior extend to that of LPS. None of the extracts induced cytotoxicity to RAW 264.7 cells and to the endothelial hCMEC/d3, the fibroblast 3 T3/L1 and the keratinocytes HaCaT cell lines, and no environmental hazard is predicted, as demonstrated through the zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryo acute toxicity test (zFET). This pioneer study points-out cyanobacteria aqueous extracts as innovative and biobased natural antimicrobial ingredients which, through a NO-donating mechanism, may potentially act against important antibiotic-resistant strains, thus being worth of consideration as therapeutic agents in dermatology.por
dc.identifier.citationMorone, J., Hentschke, G. S., Oliveira, I. B., Vasconcelos, V., Martins, R., & Lopes, G. (2025). Secondary metabolites of cyanobacteria from Cape Verde Archipelago act as NO donors with potential application in dermatology and cosmetics. Algal Research, 86, 103952. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.algal.2025.103952
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.algal.2025.103952
dc.identifier.issn2211-9264
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/29898
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relationUIDB/04423/2020 and UIDP/04423/2020
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221192642500061X?via%3Dihub
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectPhycobiliproteins
dc.subjectNitric oxide
dc.subjectRAW 264.7 cells
dc.subjectLipoxygenase
dc.subjectOxidative stress
dc.titleSecondary metabolites of cyanobacteria from Cape Verde Archipelago act as NO donors with potential application in dermatology and cosmeticspor
dc.typeresearch article
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oaire.citation.titleAlgal Research
oaire.citation.volume86
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person.familyNameMartins
person.givenNameRosario
person.identifier.ciencia-idA919-DB40-EF10
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-9882-4651
person.identifier.scopus-author-id21834368700
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