{"title":"Antioxidative activity for human low density lipoprotein oxidation by a novel compound purified from marine microbial origin.","authors":"Ryu, Jeong, Gutman, Greenspan","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study was designed to investigate the antioxidative activity of a substance isolated and purified from culture broth of Bacillus sp. The antioxidative substance was identified as 2,6-bis(1,1-dimethylethyl)phenol (Phen-251). The antioxidative activity of Phen-251 was higher than that of dl-tocopherol and BHA against low-density lipoprotein (LDL) oxidation by thiobarbituric acid reactive substance (TBARS). Phen-251 inhibited the copper-mediated oxidation of human LDL in a dose-dependent manner with almost complete inhibition at 40 µg/ml. Phen-251 at a concentration of 60 µg/ml also inhibited oxidation of LDL induced by J774. LDL oxidized by copper-mediated or cell-induced oxidation was degraded at a much greater rate than native LDL. These results suggested the importance of further research on Phen-251 in the investigation of atherosclerosis and free radical-induced injury.</p>","PeriodicalId":79672,"journal":{"name":"Journal of marine biotechnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1998-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of marine biotechnology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This study was designed to investigate the antioxidative activity of a substance isolated and purified from culture broth of Bacillus sp. The antioxidative substance was identified as 2,6-bis(1,1-dimethylethyl)phenol (Phen-251). The antioxidative activity of Phen-251 was higher than that of dl-tocopherol and BHA against low-density lipoprotein (LDL) oxidation by thiobarbituric acid reactive substance (TBARS). Phen-251 inhibited the copper-mediated oxidation of human LDL in a dose-dependent manner with almost complete inhibition at 40 µg/ml. Phen-251 at a concentration of 60 µg/ml also inhibited oxidation of LDL induced by J774. LDL oxidized by copper-mediated or cell-induced oxidation was degraded at a much greater rate than native LDL. These results suggested the importance of further research on Phen-251 in the investigation of atherosclerosis and free radical-induced injury.