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C-Phycocyanin is a natural blue pigment with many commercial applications in foods, cosmetics, and medicines. In this paper we describe the extraction and purification of C-phycocyanin from the cyanobacterium Spirulina platensis. The procedure is based on adsorption of impurities with chitosan and activated charcoal then one-step ion-exchange chromatography. The dry algal powder was soaked in potassium...
Lung cancer is still difficult to treat by current chemotherapeutic procedures. We recently found that MVL, an anti-HIV lectin from blue-green algae Microcystis viridis, also has antitumor activity. The objective of this study was to investigate apoptosis-inducing activity of recombinant MVL (R-MVL) and proteomic changes in A549 cells, and to identify the molecular pathways responsible for the anti-cancer...
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