C yanotoxins: producing organisms, occurrence, toxicity, mechanism of action and human health toxicological risk evaluation

FM Buratti, M Manganelli, S Vichi, M Stefanelli… - Archives of …, 2017 - Springer
Cyanobacteria were present on the earth 3.5 billion years ago; since then they have
colonized almost all terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. They produce a high number of …

Marine natural products

JW Blunt, BR Copp, RA Keyzers, MHG Munro… - Natural Product …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2013. Previous review: Nat. Prod. Rep., 2014, 31, 160–258 This review covers the
literature published in 2013 for marine natural products (MNPs), with 982 citations (644 for …

An overview on the marine neurotoxin, saxitoxin: genetics, molecular targets, methods of detection and ecological functions

KD Cusick, GS Sayler - Marine Drugs, 2013 - mdpi.com
Marine neurotoxins are natural products produced by phytoplankton and select species of
invertebrates and fish. These compounds interact with voltage-gated sodium, potassium and …

Stoichiometric regulation of phytoplankton toxins

DB Van de Waal, VH Smith, SAJ Declerck… - Ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological Stoichiometry theory predicts that the production, elemental structure and cellular
content of biomolecules should depend on the relative availability of resources and the …

Genomic copy number variability at the genus, species and population levels impacts in situ ecological analyses of dinoflagellates and harmful algal blooms

R Ruvindy, A Barua, CJS Bolch, C Sarowar… - ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The application of meta-barcoding, qPCR, and metagenomics to aquatic eukaryotic
microbial communities requires knowledge of genomic copy number variability (CNV). CNV …

Marine paralytic shellfish toxins: chemical properties, mode of action, newer analogues, and structure–toxicity relationship

JF Leal, MLS Cristiano - Natural Product Reports, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Up to the end of 2020 Every year, the appearance of marine biotoxins causes enormous
socio-economic damage worldwide. Among the major groups of biotoxins, paralytic shellfish …

Putting the N in dinoflagellates

S Dagenais-Bellefeuille, D Morse - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
The cosmopolitan presence of dinoflagellates in aquatic habitats is now believed to be a
direct consequence of the different trophic modes they have developed through evolution …

Saxitoxin

AP Thottumkara, WH Parsons… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The paralytic agent (+)‐saxitoxin (STX), most commonly associated with oceanic
red tides and shellfish poisoning, is a potent inhibitor of electrical conduction in cells. Its …

Risk to human health associated with the environmental occurrence of cyanobacterial neurotoxic alkaloids anatoxins and saxitoxins

E Testai, S Scardala, S Vichi, FM Buratti… - Critical Reviews in …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Cyanobacteria are ubiquitous photosynthetic micro-organisms forming blooms and scums in
surface water; among them some species can produce cyanotoxins giving rise to some …

A carboxyl-functionalized covalent organic polymer for the efficient adsorption of saxitoxin

T Wang, SPS Fernandes, J Araújo, X Li… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Saxitoxin (STX), the most widely distributed neurotoxin in marine waters and emerging
cyanotoxin of concern in freshwaters, causes paralytic shellfish poisoning in humans upon …