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ArticleToxins2020

Boronic Acids of Pharmaceutical Importance Affect the Growth and Photosynthetic Apparatus of Cyanobacteria in a Dose-Dependent Manner.

Emilia Niemczyk, Jerzy Pogrzeba, Agnieszka Adamczyk-Woźniak, Jacek Lipok

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Article in Toxins, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Emilia NiemczykDepartment of Pharmacy and Ecological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Opole, Oleska 48, 45-052 Opole, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-0867-3587
Jerzy PogrzebaDepartment of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Opole, Oleska 48, 45-052 Opole, Poland.
Agnieszka Adamczyk-WoźniakLaboratory of Synthesis and Structural Investigation of OrganoBoron Compounds, Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology, Noakowskiego 3, 00-664 Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-0571-0197
Jacek LipokDepartment of Pharmacy and Ecological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Opole, Oleska 48, 45-052 Opole, Poland.
University of Opole · PLWarsaw University of Technology · PL

Funding

National Science Centre of Poland 2016/23/B/ST5/02847
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The dynamic increase in the commercial application of antimicrobial derivatives of boronic acids, and potential impact of their presence in aquatic systems, supports the necessity to study the toxicity of these substances towards microorganisms of crucial meaning in the environment. One example of the mentioned derivatives is tavaborole (5-fluoro-substituted benzoxaborole), a pharmaceutical agent with antifungal activity. Cyanobacteria were used as model organisms, which are photoautotrophic prokaryotes, as representative aquatic bacteria and photoautotrophs associated with the plant kingdom. To the best of our knowledge, we investigated this issue for the first time. In order to recognize the under-stress response of those microorganisms, the concentration of photopigments-a key factor in the activity of photosynthetic apparatus-was measured spectrophotometrically. We found that the 3-piperazine bis(benzoxaborole) significantly suppressed the growth of halophilic and freshwater cyanobacteria, at a concentration 3.0 mM and 0.3 mM, respectively. Our results also showed that the tested substances at micromolar concentrations stimulated the growth of cyanobacteria, particularly in the freshwater strain

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Boronic AcidsChlorophyllCyanobacteriaDose-Response Relationship, DrugPhotosynthesisBoronic AcidsChlorophyllaryl boronic acidsbactericidal activitycyanobacteriapharmaceuticalsphotosynthetic pigments

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PMID33322165
PMCPMC7763570
OpenAlexW3111196003

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