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Aplidium albicans
Sea squirt, source of toxin aplidine From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Aplidium albicans is a toxic sea squirt native to the Mediterranean Sea.
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Range
Native to the Mediterranean Sea.[2][3][4][5] Population density is sparse in its native range.[5]
Toxins
A. albicans contains aplidine (aplidin, plitidepsin),[6][2][7][8] found by Steiner et al 2015 and Borjan et al 2015[7] to be a cytotoxin (due to its apoptotic[4][5][9] effect) and antiangiogenic.[2][7][5] The toxin is structurally and functionally almost identical to toxins produced by the genus Tistrella of marine bacteria.[8]
Aquaculture
Aquaculture of A. albicans has not been economically feasible as of 2008[update].[5]
References
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