{"title":"Induction of apoptosis by a marine microalgal polysaccharide in a human leukemic cell line.","authors":"Sogawa, Matsuda, Okutani","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An extracellular polysaccharide produced by a marine microalga Gymnodinium A3 OKU-1 strain showed a strong cytotoxicity for the human leukemia K-562 cells (CC50 = 11.6 µg/ml). We revealed that this polysaccharide induced apoptosis of K-562 cells, as shown by cell morphology, nuclear fragmentation, in situ end-labeling of fragmented DNA, and internucleosomal DNA fragmentation, suggesting that the mechanism of cytotoxicity of this polymer was based on the induction of apoptosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":79672,"journal":{"name":"Journal of marine biotechnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1998-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of marine biotechnology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
An extracellular polysaccharide produced by a marine microalga Gymnodinium A3 OKU-1 strain showed a strong cytotoxicity for the human leukemia K-562 cells (CC50 = 11.6 µg/ml). We revealed that this polysaccharide induced apoptosis of K-562 cells, as shown by cell morphology, nuclear fragmentation, in situ end-labeling of fragmented DNA, and internucleosomal DNA fragmentation, suggesting that the mechanism of cytotoxicity of this polymer was based on the induction of apoptosis.