Sterols and polysaccharides of green alga Caulerpa lentillifera grown under laboratory conditions and in mariculture and polysaccharides of green alga C. sertularioides grown under natural conditions were studied. The sterol fraction consisted of C27-C29 steroidal alcohols with Δ5-unsaturation in the steroid core regardless of the growth conditions. The dominant (79.9%) steroid component of the sterol fraction was clionasterol. The water-soluble fraction of C. lentillifera grown under laboratory conditions was a mixture of 1,4-α- and 1,3-β-D-glucans and protein. The same fraction isolated from C. lentillifera grown in mariculture contained only protein. The water-soluble fraction of C. sertularioides grown under natural conditions contained 1,3;1,6-β-D-galactan sulfated at C2. The principal components of the base-soluble polysaccharide fractions from all algae samples were 1,4-α-D-glucans.
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The work was supported financially by grants of the RFBR 07-04-90010-viet-a, FEB RAS, and RAS Presidium Program “Cellular and Molecular Biology.”
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Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 5-8, January-February, 2009.
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Shevchenko, N.M., Burtseva, Y.V., Zvyagintseva, T.N. et al. Polysaccharides and sterols from green algae Caulerpa lentillifera and C. sertularioides . Chem Nat Compd 45, 1–5 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10600-009-9223-3
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