Chemical Defense Against Herbivory in the Brown Marine Macroalga Could Be Attributed to a New Hydrocarbon Compound

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Journal Plants (Basel)

Date 2023 Mar 11

PMID 36903932

Authors

Renato Crespo Pereira

Wladimir Costa Paradas

Rodrigo Tomazetto de Carvalho

Davyson de Lima Moreira

Alphonse Kelecom

Raoni Moreira Ferreira Passos

Georgia Correa Atella

Leonardo Tavares Salgado

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Abstract

Brown marine macroalga (Phaeophyceae, Ochrophyta) produces both secondary metabolites (phlorotannins) and precipitate calcium carbonate (CaCO-aragonite) on its surface as potential defensive strategies against herbivory. Here, we have evaluated the effect of natural concentrations of organic extracts (dichloromethane-DI; ethyl acetate-EA and methanol-ME, and three isolated fractions) and mineralized tissues of as chemical and physical resistance, respectively, against the sea urchin through experimental laboratory feeding bioassays. Fatty acids (FA), glycolipids (GLY), phlorotannins (PH) and hydrocarbons (HC) were also characterized and/or quantified in extracts and fractions from using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and gas chromatography (GC) coupled to mass spectrometry (CG/MS) or GC coupled to flame ionization detector (FID) and chemical analysis. Our results showed that chemicals from the EA extract of were significantly important in reducing consumption by , but the CaCO did not act as a physical protection against consumption by this sea urchin. An enriched fraction containing 76% of the new hydrocarbon 5,8,11,14-heneicosatetraene exhibited a significant defensive property, while other chemicals found in minor amounts, such as GLY, PH, saturated and monounsaturated FAs and CaCO did not interfere with the susceptibility of to consumption. We suggest that the unsaturation of the 5,8,11,14-heneicosatetraene from is probably an important structural characteristic responsible for the defensive property verified against the sea urchin.

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