A. Beress et al., A NEW PROCEDURE FOR THE ISOLATION OF ANTI-HIV COMPOUNDS (POLYSACCHARIDES AND POLYPHENOLS) FROM THE MARINE ALGA FUCUS-VESICULOSUS, Journal of natural products, 56(4), 1993, pp. 478-488
Anti-HIV-active polysaccharides and polyphenols were isolated from the
brown seaweed Fucus vesiculosus by hot H2O extraction of both the int
act and the homogenized algae. This was followed by XAD2 chromatograph
y and by sequential precipitation of the nonadsorbed compounds with gl
acial HOAc and thereafter with EtOH. The precipitate was solubilized,
dialyzed against distilled H2O, and chromatographed on SP-Sephadex C25
and on QAE-Sephadex A25. This was followed by gel filtration on Sepha
dex G50 and Sephadex G100 and finally by hplc on a Shodex Ionpak S-804
column. For comparison, the commercial product fucoidan, a sulfated a
lgal polysaccharide, was also further purified by the chromatographic
techniques mentioned above. The isolated freeze-dried fractions obtain
ed by these procedures were tested for inhibition of both HIV-induced
syncytium formation and HIV reverse transcriptase enzyme activity. Som
e of these fractions inhibited both of these activities at concentrati
ons that were not cytotoxic.