Photoprotective compounds in cyanobacteria, phytoplankton and macroalgae — a database

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Abstract

A database on photoprotective compounds in cyanobacteria, phytoplankton and macroalgae has been developed. It contains information on photoprotective compounds such as mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs), scytonemin and other not yet identified compounds reported in aquatic organisms, their habitat, the collection site and date and the reference. Further information on the absorption maxima and extinction coefficients of different photoprotective compounds as well as experimental procedures are provided (see http://www.biologie.uni-erlangen.de/botanik1/index.html). The database answers the urgent need for a library on these substances and provides scientists in the field with the necessary information to identify and quantify screening pigments in different aquatic organisms from various growing sites and different collection dates.

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Abbreviations

    AS

    asterina-330

    MAAs

    mycosporine-like amino acids

    MG

    mycosporine-glycine

    PE

    palythene

    PL

    palythinol

    PR

    porphyra-334

    PT

    palythine

    SH

    shinorine

    ST

    scytonemin

    UC

    unknown compounds

    UV

    ultraviolet

Country abbreviations

    A

    Austria

    AUS

    Australia

    BR

    Brazil

    C

    Chile

    CH

    Switzerland

    CND

    Canada

    CZ

    Czech Republic

    D

    Germany

    DK

    Denmark

    E

    Spain

    EYT

    Egypt

    F

    France

    GUA

    Guatemala

    I

    Italy

    IL

    Israel

    IND

    India

    INS

    Indonesia

    J

    Japan

    M

    Mexico

    N

    Norway

    NL

    Netherlands

    NZ

    New Zealand

    P

    Portugal

    PAN

    Panama

    PRC

    People’s Republic of China

    RA

    Argentina

    SA

    South Africa

    SE

    Sweden

    UK

    United Kingdom

    USA

    United States of America

    V

    Venezuela

Note added in proof

Recently Jeffrey et al. [55] have reported the occurrence of UV-A and UV-B-absorbing compounds in 152 species (206 strains) of marine microalgae.

Acknowledgements

This work was financially supported, in part, by the European Union (DGXII, Environmental programme, ENV4-CT97-0580). Thanks are due to all contributors. We thank M. Schuster for excellent technical assistance.

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