The cyanobacterial dialkylresorcinol bartolosides were initially reported to feature glycosylated and halogenated moieties. Later, biosynthetic and in vitro studies showed that the chlorinated alkyl chains are utilized for a nucleophilic substitution with free fatty acid carboxylates from primary metabolism, generating bartoloside esters. Here, we applied a workflow based on PCR screening coupled to LC-HRESIMS and molecular network analysis with the aim of discovering additional bartoloside diversity. We report the annotation of 27 bartoloside and bartoloside ester derivatives, including the characterization of two new bartolosides, underlining the breadth of structures generated by bartoloside biosynthetic pathways. Some of the herein reported bartolosides feature hydroxylation in their side chains, a modification that has not been associated with this metabolite family.
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- molekulární struktura MeSH
- resorcinoly * chemie MeSH
- sinice * chemie metabolismus MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
Partnerships, intimacy and sexuality are an integral part of everybody's life. The same applies to persons with any type of impairment. For them, fulfilment in the area of partnerships, intimacy and sexuality is a significant factor and indicator of one's value, quality of life and life satisfaction. The paper focuses on sexuality in persons with intellectual disability who live in social care establishments. In these types of establishments, these individuals are often part of a community governed by internal rules and Standards. As a result, these establishments can create a specific environment in order to fulfil relational and sexual needs of their clients. The research involved individuals with intellectual disability and employees of homes for people with disabilities (HPDs). The main objective of the research is to find out how sexuality and its manifestations are perceived by the employees and clients of selected homes for people with disabilities. One of the partial objectives was to find out whether HPDs perform sexuality education, whether they use any professional resources and whether they provide continuing education and development in the area of sexuality both for employees and clients. The authors also analysed the knowledge and experience of clients in the area of sexuality, their perspectives of parenthood, privacy, sexuality education as well as partnerships and their establishment. Another aim was to investigate how the perception of se xuality had developed throughout the existence of the establishments.This information was acquired by means of semi-structured interviews and their subsequent analysis. The administration of the interviews was both personal and electronic in three homes for people with disabilities. The research, the results of which are presented in the text below, has brought new information about how specific homes address their clients' sexuality, which resources they use and what experience and knowledge their clients have in the area of sexuality. It turned out that it would be desirable to perform a similar research study across the whole network of homes for people with disabilities in order to find out information that would help resolve further questions concerning partnerships, ntimacy, sexuality as well as sexuality education of persons with intellectual disability in social care establishments.
Microcystins are cyclic peptide toxins with hepatotoxic and tumor-promoting properties, which are produced in significant quantities (up to tens of μg/L) in freshwater cyanobacterial water blooms. Several studies reported microcystin accumulation in fish with possible food transfer to humans. These compounds are further metabolized to cysteine and glutathione conjugates which can be present in tissues in significant concentrations. In this study, we focused on the development and evaluation of robust and highly sensitive SPE-LC-MS/MS method for the analysis of microcystin conjugates in fish tissue samples. For the first time, we demonstrate the use of isotopically labeled internal standards which are essential for accurate and precise determination of analytes in complex biotic matrices. LLOQs of respective microcystin conjugates (signal-to-noise ratio; S/N > 10, peak-to-peak method) ranged from 3.3 to 5.0 ng/g of tissue fresh weight (FW). The calibration was linear within a range of concentrations from 1 to 70 ng/mL for all analyzed conjugates. The precision and repeatability of the method were very good with recoveries in the range of 88.5-107.6% and relative standard deviations between 8.8 and 13.2% for all analytes. In the follow-up study, fully validated method was used for the determination of microcystin conjugate levels in common carp exposed to microcystin-containing cyanobacterial biomass under controlled conditions. Significant amounts of microcystin conjugates (up to 55 ng/g) were found in the tissues of fish after 7 weeks of exposure. Our method was shown to be robust, sensitive, selective, and suitable for the determination of trace levels of microcystin conjugates in fish tissues.
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- biomasa MeSH
- chromatografie kapalinová metody MeSH
- cystein analýza MeSH
- glutathion analýza MeSH
- limita detekce MeSH
- mikrocystiny analýza chemie MeSH
- radioisotopová diluční technika MeSH
- reprodukovatelnost výsledků MeSH
- sinice chemie MeSH
- tandemová hmotnostní spektrometrie metody MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
Cyanobacterial blooms represent a worldwide problem in freshwater as well as marine ecosystems as producers of various toxic compounds. This study provides environmentally important information about the common presence of mixtures of retinoids in various water bodies associated with the occurrence of cyanobacterial blooms dominated by many different species. The study documents, for the first time, that retinoids are produced by environmental cyanobacterial blooms dominated by species belonging to different genera such as Microcystis, Dolichospermum, Planktothrix, Woronichinia, Pseudanabaena and others. Samples of biomass of cyanobacterial blooms and their surrounding water were collected from seventeen independent freshwater bodies across the Czech Republic during summer 2015. Retinoid-like activity was detected by an in vitro reporter gene bioassay in water samples from 8 out of 17 localities with a maximal activity of 263 ng all-trans retinoic acid equivalent (REQ)/L. In comparison, in vitro assessment of biomass extracts documented retinoid-like activity at 11 out of 17 localities with a maximal retinoid-like activity of 867 ng REQ/g dry mass (dm). Individual retinoids were detected by chemical analyses in all water samples and in 16 out of 17 biomass samples with 4keto-retinal and all-trans 5,6epoxy retinoic acid being detected in aquatic ecosystems for the first time. Further, all-trans 4keto retinoic acid and retinal were the most commonly detected compounds in both types of samples. With respect to retinoid-like activity, a large proportion was explained in some samples by contributions of individual detected retinoids calculated from their concentrations and relative potencies. However, results also indicate that other unknown compounds with a retinoic acid receptor-mediated mode of action were present. The revealed widespread production of retinoids by cyanobacterial blooms dominated by diverse species across various aquatic ecosystems and their common presence in both biomass and surrounding water raises concern namely because some retinoids belong to the most potent teratogens. These compounds need to be taken into consideration in the assessment of risks associated with massive cyanobacterial blooms.
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- ekosystém MeSH
- Microcystis * MeSH
- retinoidy MeSH
- sinice * MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- Geografické názvy
- Česká republika MeSH
Cyanobacterial species produce wide range of bioactive compounds. This study characterized production of retinoid-like compounds with embryotoxic and teratogenic potential by commonly occurring cyanobacterial species with tendency to form massive water blooms. The major goal was to simultaneously assess the intracellular and extracellular retinoid-like activity from several independent cultivations of one coccal (Microcystis aeruginosa) and four filamentous cyanobacteria (Aphanizomenon gracile, Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii, Limnothrix redekeii, and Planktothrix agardhii) and characterize the variability in its production among cultivations. The retinoid-like activity was evaluated by in vitro assay along with chemical analyses of nine retinoids: all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA), 9-cis retinoic acid (9cis-RA), 13cis-RA, 13cis-RA methyl ester, 5,6 epoxy-RA, 4keto-ATRA, 4keto-retinal, 4hydoxy-retinoic acid (4OH-ATRA), retinal and retinol. The production of retinoid-like compounds was recalculated per volume, per biomass dry weight and per cell to provide relevant data for risk assessment in relation to occurrence of massive water blooms in the environment. Total produced retinoid-like activity of five selected species ranged from 170 to 25,600ng ATRA-equivalents (REQ)/g dm corresponding to 0.001-0.392ng REQ/106 cyanobacterial cells. Results from chemical analyses showed that all tested extracts contained 4keto-ATRA and retinal. All-trans retinoic acid, 9/13cis-retinoic acid and 5,6 epoxy-retinoic acid were detected in most exudate and extract samples. The reported results of recalculated total retinoid-like activity enable potential predictions of its production by the studied species in water blooms of known cell densities relevant for risk assessment.
Compounds with estrogenic potencies and their adverse effects in surface waters have received much attention. Both anthropogenic and natural compounds contribute to overall estrogenic activity in freshwaters. Recently, estrogenic potencies were also found to be associated with cyanobacteria and their blooms in surface waters. The present study developed and compared the solid phase extraction and LC-MS/MS analytical approaches for determination of phytoestrogens (8 flavonoids - biochanin A, coumestrol, daidzein, equol, formononetin, genistein, naringenin, apigenin - and 5 sterols - ergosterol, β-sitosterol, stigmasterol, campesterol, brassicasterol) and cholesterol in water. The method was used for analyses of samples collected in stagnant water bodies dominated by different cyanobacterial species. Concentrations of individual flavonoids ranged from below the limit of detection to 3.58 ng/L. Sterols were present in higher amounts up to 2.25 μg/L. Biological potencies of these phytoestrogens in vitro were characterized using the hERα-HeLa-9903 cell line. The relative estrogenic potencies (compared to model estrogen - 17β-estradiol) of flavonoids ranged from 2.25E-05 to 1.26E-03 with coumestrol being the most potent. None of the sterols elicited estrogenic response in the used bioassay. Estrogenic activity was detected in collected field water samples (maximum effect corresponding to 2.07 ng/L of 17β-estradiol equivalents, transcriptional assay). At maximum phytoestrogens accounted for only 1.56 pg/L of 17β-estradiol equivalents, contributing maximally 8.5% of the total estrogenicity of the water samples. Other compounds therefore, most likely of anthropogenic origin such as steroid estrogens, are probably the major drivers of total estrogenic effects in these surface waters.
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- chemické látky znečišťující vodu analýza MeSH
- cholestadienoly MeSH
- cholesterol analogy a deriváty MeSH
- estradiol analýza MeSH
- estrogeny analýza MeSH
- estron analýza MeSH
- fytoestrogeny analýza MeSH
- fytosteroly MeSH
- genistein analýza MeSH
- HeLa buňky MeSH
- isoflavony analýza MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- receptory pro estrogeny metabolismus MeSH
- sinice účinky léků metabolismus MeSH
- sitosteroly analýza MeSH
- sladká voda MeSH
- steroly analýza MeSH
- tandemová hmotnostní spektrometrie MeSH
- voda MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
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- aktivní eutanazie etika metody psychologie MeSH
- kurzy a stáže v nemocnici pracovní síly MeSH
- lékařská etika MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- studium ošetřovatelství vysokoškolské metody MeSH
- zahraniční odborný personál MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- Geografické názvy
- Belgie MeSH
