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BIOMATERIALS FROM AQUATIC AND TERRESTRIAL ORGANISMS BIOMATERIALS FROM AQUATIC AND TERRESTRIAL ORGANISMS Editors Milton Fingerman Rachakonda Nagabhushanam Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana USA % Science Publishers Enfield (NH) Jersey Plymouth SCIENCE PUBLISHERS An Imprint of Edenbridge Ltd., British Isles. Post Office Box 699 Enfield, New Hampshire 03748 United States of America Website: http://www.scipub.net [email protected] (marketing department) [email protected] (editorial department) [email protected] (for all other enquiries) ISBN 13: 978-1-57808-429-6 (hbk) © 2006, Copyright Reserved All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, elec- tronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Published by Science Publishers, Enfield, NH, USA An Imprint of Edenbridge Ltd. Preface Organisms, both aquatic and terrestrial, are sources of a wide variety of substances, many of which have already been shown to be bioactive. That is, they have been shown to play a wide variety of physiological and environmental roles. These chemicals include a broad array of proteins, lipids, and polysaccharides. Potentially, many of these natural products will find applications in industry, agriculture, and medicine. In the early phases of the study of these natural products the focus was on their isolation and identification. Now, the emphasis has shifted to testing and the development of new applications to solve medical and environmen tal problems, among others. These efforts involve collaboration among natural products chemists, oncologists, toxicologists, biochemists, and mo lecular biologists, to cite some examples of the specialists now involved. We are in an exciting era as potential begins to approach reality. This volume explores ongoing efforts to develop these natural prod ucts into commercially viable materials that will contribute to solving, especially, health and environmental problems world-wide. Among the chapters in this volume are ones that deal with the use of compounds from plants to treat Alzheimer's disease, the antimicrobial activity of terpenes from African plants, antioxidant compounds from plants, antiangiogenic compounds from marine invertebrates, bioactive natural products from marine fungi, and the anti-inflammatory and antiallergenic properties of triterpenoids from plants. This volume, which presents the most recent information on biomate rials, was written by a highly talented group of scientists who are not only able to communicate very effectively through their writing, but are also responsible for many of the advances that are described herein. We, the editors, have been most fortunate in attracting a highly talented, internationally respected group of investigators to serve as authors. We intentionally set out to present a truly international scope to this volume. vi Biomaterials from Aquatic and Terrestrial Organisms Consequently, appropriate authors from several countries were sought, and to everyone's benefit, our invitations to contribute were accepted. We take pleasure in thanking the authors for their cooperation and excellent contributions, and for keeping to the publication schedule. The efforts of these individuals made our task much less difficult than it might have been. Also, we especially wish to thank our wives, Maria Esperanza Fingerman and Rachakonda Sarojini, for their constant and undiminishing encouragement and support during the production of this volume. We trust that you, the readers, will agree with us that the efforts of the authors of the chapters in this volume will serve collectively to provide a major thrust toward a better understanding of the good that can come from the ongoing investigations of these interesting biomaterials that have been obtained from both plants and animals, aquatic and terrestrial. Milton Fingerman Rachakonda Nagabhushanam Contents Preface v The Contributors vii 1. Use of Plants for Management of Alzheimer's Disease 1 Peter J. Houghton and Melanie-Jayne R. Howes 2. Antiviral Activity of Sulfated Polysaccharides of Marine Red Algae 37 Shoshana (Malis) Arad, Ariel Ginzberg and Mahmoud Huleihel 3. Anti-Inflammatory and Antiallergic Properties of Triterpenoids from Plants 63 Toshihiro Akihisa and Ken Yasukawa 4. Antioxidant Compounds Extracted from Several Plant Materials 115 Rosa M. Seabra, Paula B. Andrade, Patricia Valentao, Eduarda Fernandes, Felix Carvalho and Maria de Lourdes Bastos 5. Antimicrobial Activity of Terpenes Isolated from African Plants 175 Veronique Seidel and Roger Waigh 6. Antimalarial and Antifungal Alkaloids from Plants 207 D. Chuck Dunbar, Xing-Cong Li and Bias Muhammad 7. Anticancer Compounds from Higher Plants 255 Hideji Itokawa, Koichi Takeya and Kuo-Hsiung Lee 8. Biologically Active Natural Products from Marine Fungi 285 Michio Namikoshi viii Biomaterials from Aquatic and Terrestrial Organisms 9. Antioxidant Metabolites from Marine Derived Fungi 361 Katja M. Fisch, Ahmed Abdel-Lateff and Gabriele M. Konig 10. Antiangiogenic Compounds from Marine Invertebrates 377 Tomofumi Miyamoto 11. Biologically Active Terpenoids from Sponges 393 Tatsuo Higa and Masaynki Kuniyoshi 12. Bioactive Polyacetylenic Compounds from Marine Sponges 451 Jee H. Jung, Kwang Sik Im and Bok Hee Bae 13. Bioactive Natural Products from Nudibranchs 513 Masami Ishibashi, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi and Yoshiaki J. Hirano 14. Barnacle Underwater Adhesive: Complexity from Multi-Functionality in a Multi-Protein Complex 537 Kei Kamino 15. Secondary Metabolites of Biological Significance from Echinoderms 559 Marta S. Maier and Ana P. Murray Index 595 The Contributors Ahmed Abdel-Lateff, Pharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, El-Menia University, El-Menia, Egypt Toshihiro Akihisa, College of Science and Technology, Nihon University, 1-8 Kanda Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8308, Japan E-mail: akihisa@chem .cst.nihon-u .ac.jp Paula B. Andrade, Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Rua Anibal Cunha, 164, 4099-030 Porto, Portugal Shoshana (Malis) Arad, The Institute for Applied Biosciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Bok Hee Bae, College of Pharmacy, Pusan National University, Keumjeong- ku, Changjeon-dong, Busan 609-735, Korea Maria de Lourdes Bastos, Department of Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Rua Anibal Cunha, 164, 4099-030 Porto, Portugal E-mail: [email protected] Felix Carvalho, Department of Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Univer sity of Porto, Rua Anibal Cunha, 164, 4099-030 Porto, Portugal D. Chuck Dunbar, National Center for Natural Products Research, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, United States of America Eduarda Fernandes, Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Rua Anibal Cunha, 164, 4099-030 Porto, Portugal Katja M. FiscH Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of General Surgery, University Hospital Muenster, Waldeyerstrasse 1, 48149 Muenster, Germany
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