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Liquid cell suspension cultures derived from marine plants have the potential to biosynthesize novel biomedicinal compounds in a controlled environment. Of particular interest are the eicosanoids and related oxylipins emanating from the 15-lipoxygenase manifold of the arachidonic acid cascade, which is active in the brown algaLaminaria saccharina. Filamentous cell clumps ofL. saccharina isolated from female gametophytes were cultured in an illuminated bubble-column bioreactor in GP2 artificial seawater nutrient medium at 13 °C and air flow rate of 0.35 L air min−1 L−1 culture (vvm). Growth kinetics and biomass productivity data were obtained as a function of incident light intensity (2.4 to 98μmol photon m−2 s−1) and initial cell density (27 to 149 mg DCW L−1). Maximum cell densities exceeded 1200 mg DCW L−1 after a 20 day cultivation time at optimal conditions of 98μmol photon m−2 s−1 and 118 mg DCW L−1 initial cell density. Qualitative analysis of chloroform/methanol extracts of the cell culture biomass by GC-MS confirmed the presence of the hydroxy fatty acids 13-HODTA and 13-HOTE, the likely products of 15-lipoxygenase catalyzed oxidation of linoleic or linolenic acids.
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Rorrer, G.L., Modrell, J., Zhi, C. et al. Bioreactor seaweed cell culture for production of bioactive oxylipins. J Appl Phycol 7, 187–198 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00693067
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