Overall results showed a high anticoagulant activity of fucoidan from the sea cucumber Holothuria polii. - GreenMedInfo Summary
Primary structure and anticoagulant activity of fucoidan from the sea cucumber Holothuria polii.
Int J Biol Macromol. 2019 Jan ;121:1145-1153. Epub 2018 Oct 16. PMID: 30340002
Mohamed Ben Mansour
Sea cucumber fucoidan is recently endowed with a variety of biological activities. In the present study, we studied the structure and anticoagulant effect of fucoidan from the sea cucumber Holothuria polii (Fuc-Hp). The Fuc-Hp was purified by anion exchange chromatography and its structure was characterized by FT-IR and NMR spectroscopy. Molecular weight measurements were performed by HPSEC-MALLS-dRI. Fuc-Hp anticoagulant activity was measured by activated partial thromboplastin and thrombin times, and by in vitro thrombin inhibition in the presence of antithrombin and heparin cofactor II. The assessment of thrombin generation was investigated using calibrated automated thrombography. Fuc-Hp with a high sulfate content (34.6%) and an average molecular mass of 1376.3 kDa was isolated from H. polii in amount of ~2.7 mg/g dry body wall. Primary structural analysis indicated that Fuc-Hp was mainly composed of a tetrafucose repeating unit branched by glucuronic acid. Fuc-Hp exhibited a high anticoagulant effect mediated essentially by heparin cofactor II and tolesser extent by antithrombin with ICvalues of 0.16 μg/mL and 0.5 μg/mL, respectively. Overall results showed a high anticoagulant activity of Fuc-Hp, which was attributed to the high sulfate content and abundance of disulfated fucose residues of H. polii fucoidan.