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Promising Polyunsaturated Oils from Marine Haptophyta Journal of Ecology & Natural Resources ISSN: 2578-4994 Promising Polyunsaturated Oils from Marine Haptophyta Bakku RK1,2* Review article 1 Faculty of Information, Systems and Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Japan Volume 2 Issue 5 2Tsukuba Life Science Innovation Program, University of Tsukuba, Japan Received Date: September 21, 2018 Published Date: October 23, 2018 *Corresponding author: Ranjith Kumar Bakku, Faculty of Information, Systems and DOI: 10.23880/jenr-16000143 Engineering, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan, Tel: +81-29-853-5449; Fax: +81- 29-853-5449; Email: [email protected] Abstract Energy and Environment play a key role for the sustainability and survival of a society. At present these are the two major concerns in current world. Rapidly increasing energy demands and decreasing healthy environmental conditions pose a serious threat to future generations of humanity. The quest to find clues for prediction of future environment from past information and search for alternate energy sources has already begun. In this regard, the photosynthetic marine micro algae and the organic compounds produce by them are considered as the potential targets to address the environmental challenges. Poly-unsaturated long chain ketones (PULCAs) are such compounds produced by few species of marine Haptophyta. These compounds are identified to be unique lipids which are considered as potential biofuel precursors. The PULCAs are generally called as alkenones and are comprised of more than 40% of total lipid content in haptophyte species like E.huxley and Gephyrocapsa. Current paper provides a brief overview on these compounds. Keywords: PULCAs; Haptophyta; Bio-fuel; Biomarkers; Alkenones Introduction response to environmental conditions and contributed to global bio-geochemical cycles [1]. Due to over use of natural oil reserves there is a significant increase in CO2 levels as well as simultaneous Till date a wide range of algal species were discovered decrease in the climatic conditions and energy reserves. and are used as standard models for several research This situation is leading towards energy crisis and global purposes in food, fuel and pharma industries. Some of warming. In order to prevent further damage, the them are of significant importance to scientific scientific community is searching for alternate solutions community because of their unique biochemical from the photosynthetic organisms. Life on earth has mechanisms and carbon containing products [2-4]. proliferated from simple single celled microbes in oceans Especially, certain lipids like fatty acids, sterols, alcohols, to multi-cellular complex beings on land, water and air. Oxylipins etc., produced by these photosynthetic marine Out of which marine photosynthetic microbes lie in the microbes like Cyanobacteria and diatoms are very useful primary line of evolution. Marine phytoplankton evolved in geophysical, food, biofuel and pharma industries. Such through a various symbiotic processes to thrive in lipid deposition from plants and algae in the layers of earth from the past million years triggered formation of Promising Polyunsaturated Oils from Marine Haptophyta J Ecol & Nat Resour 2 Journal of Ecology & Natural Resources crude oil reserves. However, these are being depleted assumed to be potential biofuel precursors. Various rapidly. Currently there is a high demand to explore studies on alkenones have been carried out till date to renewable and environment friendly energy sources to elucidate their applications. This article is aimed to give a prevent increasing CO2 levels and global temperature. brief over view on the alkenone research with regard to Therefore photosynthetic micro algal lipids are their biological role and biofuel potential. extensively studied for this purpose. Poly-Unsaturated Long Chain Ketones Alkenones are one such unique lipid molecules (Pulcas) produced by marine haptophyta. These lipids are widely considered as potential subjects for addressing Alkenones are unique neutral lipid molecules first environmental challenges. The haptophytes that produce discovered in the marine sediments [9,10]. The alkenones are widely distributed in the open oceans and characteristic features of these unique lipids are very long are considered to be dominant species that can survive carbon chains (C36-C40), ~(2 to 4)-trans double bonds and through diverse nutrient fluctuations [5-7]. These a methyl or ethyl ketone functional group at one end as organisms have been thrived in earth’s waters over a shown in figure 1 [10,11]. Alkenones along with other million years through adverse environmental conditions. related compounds like alkenes and alkenoates are These alkenone producing organisms played a key role in collectively referred to as polyunsaturated long chain contributing to earth’s early biosphere through oxygen alkenones (PULCAs). Only few marine haptophytes production, carbon and sulfur cycling [3,4,8]. The namely Emiliania, Gephyrocapsa, Isochrysis, Tisochrysis alkenones, produced and deposited into sea sediments, by and Chrysotila are known to produce these components these organisms are also identified to have significant [5,6,12]. paleo-climate information [5]. In addition, they are also Figure 1: Figure showing structure of C37:3 alkenone with its trans-double bonds and a methyl ketone group. The alkenone composition, distribution and double wide distribution, unique structural features and bond number varies depending on algal species, habitat applications, alkenones are considered useful and the growth conditions like temperature, salinity and macromolecular components in haptophytes. nutrient availability. For example, alkenones with two to three double bonds and C37-C39 carbon chain length are Besides being widely accepted as biomarkers for most commonly identified in Emiliania and Gephyrocapsa temperature and CO2, alkenones are also assumed to be thriving in marine and lacustrine environments [5,9-15]. potential biofuel precursors. Several studies on the While, C35-C36, C38:4-C37:4, and C40-C41 type alkenones were characteristics of alkenones speculated their biological also produced by these haptophytes and specifically role as neutral lipids, buoyancy regulators or structural identified in sediments of black sea, cold waters, sulfate- backbones [10,27-31]. Their role as storage lipids like rich lakes and hyper-saline environments [16-20]. The triacylglycerol (TAG) is highly under debate and yet to be trans-unsaturation of these molecules is identified to be explored. It was also observed that, TAGs are comparably linearly proportional to temperatures and therefore they produced in very low amounts compared to alkenones in are used as proxies to estimate ancient sea surface haptophytes like E.huxleyi and Gephyrocapsa [6,32-34]. temperatures, SST [21-23]. These compounds are mainly Alkenone unsaturation being temperature dependent and useful in geophysical studies to estimate paleo their role as storage lipids was speculated to have evolved temperatures and paleo CO2 [24-26]. Because of such through natural selection [30]. Furthermore, the Bakku RK. Promising Polyunsaturated Oils from Marine Haptophyta. J Ecol & Nat Resour Copyright© Bakku RK. 2018, 2(5): 000143. 3 Journal of Ecology & Natural Resources mechanisms involved in their biosynthesis, trans biofuels due their high boiling points (>60˚ C) compared unsaturation were also explored and identified to be to TAGS [46,50,51]. Therefore, though the use of downstream of fatty acid biosynthesis and elongation alkenones as biofuels could be advantageous technical pathways [36-39]. In the process of unraveling their difficulties in conversion of alkenoenes into industry level biosynthesis mechanisms, identification of the biofuels still persist. Identification of alkenone localization of alkenones was also studied. The abundance biosynthesis pathways and subsequent regulation of alkenone composition from membrane fractions was towards production of short chain hydrocarbons could be found in endoplasmic reticulum and coccolith producing an alternative way for efficient biofuel synthesis. compartments, while fluroscence and nutrient/light stress studies showed present of nutral lipids in Conclusion chloroplasts and lipid vesicles [40-41]. Despite such extensive studies on characteristics and applications of Renewable organic compounds that can serve as alkenones, their biological role and complete mechanism multipurpose resources are very useful for research and of synthesis are still unknown. industry. Especially lipids that can serve as both biomarkers and biofuel molecules are rare and valuable Among all alkenone producing haptophytes, E.huxleyi sources for environmental studies. The PULCAs like is the major producer of alkenones and a dominant Alkenones fit in this category perfectly. Alkenones are marine coccolithophore [9,10,33,42]. Most studies are already well known for their applications in carried mainly using E.huxleyi. Studies on carbon flow in paleothermometry and paleo-CO2 analysis. On the other alkenone producing haptophytes showed that 15-20% of hand their potential to be used as biofuels is yet to be the carbon is incorporated in to lipids among which 63- explored fully. At the moment though their biosynthesis 75% is in the form of neutral lipids [27]. The carbon mechanism is not known, their role as major storage content is around 48-64% under nutrient replete lipids is confirmed. Despite their high melting points,
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