Journal
TOXINS
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/toxins12020134
Keywords
Canary Islands; ciguatera; ciguatoxins; erythrocyte lysis assay; maitotoxins; neuroblastoma cytotoxicity assay
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Funding
- Spanish national project CICAN [CGL2013-40671-R]
- Spanish national project DIANAS [CTM2017-86066-R]
- Fecyt
- Fundacion Biodiversidad
- CCVIEO
- Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia
- Europen project EuroCigua ('Risk characterization of ciguatera food poisoning in Europe') [GP/EFSA/AFSCO/2015/03]
- URV-IRTA grant
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In the last decade, several outbreaks of ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) have been reported in the Canary Islands (central northeast Atlantic Ocean), confirming ciguatera as an emerging alimentary risk in this region. Five Gambierdiscus species, G. australes, G. excentricus, G. silvae, G. carolinianus and G. caribaeus, have been detected in macrophytes from this area and are known to produce the ciguatoxins (CTXs) that cause CFP. A characterization of the toxicity of these species is the first step in identifying locations in the Canary Islands at risk of CFP. Therefore, in this study the toxicity of 63 strains of these five Gambierdiscus species were analysed using the erythrocyte lysis assay to evaluate their maitotoxin (MTX) content. In addition, 20 of the strains were also analysed in a neuroblastoma Neuro-2a (N2a) cytotoxicity assay to determine their CTX-like toxicity. The results allowed the different species to be grouped according to their ratios of CTX-like and MTX-like toxicity. MTX-like toxicity was especially high in G. excentricus and G. australes but much lower in the other species and lowest in G. silvae. CTX-like toxicity was highest in G. excentricus, which produced the toxin in amounts ranging between 128.2 +/- 25.68 and 510.6 +/- 134.2 fg CTX1B equivalents (eq) cell(-1) (mean +/- SD). In the other species, CTX concentrations were as follows: G. carolinianus (100.84 +/- 18.05 fg CTX1B eq cell(-1)), G. australes (31.1 +/- 0.56 to 107.16 +/- 21.88 fg CTX1B eq cell(-1)), G. silvae (12.19 +/- 0.62 to 76.79 +/- 4.97 fg CTX1B eq cell(-1)) and G. caribaeus (
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