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Svetlana Ermakova1, Roza Sokolova, Sang-Min Kim
1Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia. svetlana_ermakova@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Fucoidans were isolated by water extraction and ion-exchange chromatography from brown algae Eclonia cava, Sargassum hornery, and Costaria costata collected near of Korean coasts. The structures of fucoidans were investigated. Fucoidan from E. cava was mixture of sulfated rhamnogalactofucan and galactofucan. Fucoidan from C. costata was a sulfated galactofucan. Fucoidan isolated from S. hornery was separated into three fractions: a homofucan sulfate, a homofucan but without sulfate groups, and a sulfated rhamnofucan. The results clearly showed that fucoidans play an inhibitory role in colony formation in human melanoma and colon cancer cells and may be effective antitumor agents.
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