The DOI matches its Crossref record; 1 of the 1 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Cyanobacterial toxins – occurrence, biosynthesis and impact on human affairs
Abstract
Mass developments of cyanobacteria (“blue‐green algae”) in lakes and brackish waters have repeatedly led to serious concerns due to their frequent association with toxins. Among these are the widespread hepatotoxins microcystin (MC) and nodularin (NOD). Here, we give an overview about the ecostrategies of the diverse toxin‐producing species and about the genes and enzymes that are involved in the biosynthesis of the cyclic peptides. We further summarize current knowledge about toxicological mechanisms of MC and NOD, including protein phosphatase inhibition, oxidative stress and their tumor‐promoting capabilities. One biotransformation pathway for MC is described. Mechanisms of cyanobacterial neurotoxins (anatoxin‐a, homanatoxin‐a, and anatoxin‐a(s)) are briefly explained. We highlight selected cases of human fatalities related to the toxins. A special focus is given to evident cases of contamination of food supplements with cyanobacterial toxins, and to the necessary precautions.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Anatoxin-a, a toxic alkaloid from Anabaena flos-aquae NRC-44h
Devlin, J. P., Edwards, O. E., Gorham, P. R., Hunter, N. R., Pike, R. K., & Stavric, B. (1977) · Canadian Journal of Chemistry · doi:10.1139/v77-189 · Cited by 378
Cited by
Faulkner, D. J. (1990) · Natural Product Reports · doi:10.1039/np9900700269 · Cited by 4,866
Blunt, J. W., Copp, B. R., Hu, W.-P., Munro, M. H. G., Northcote, P. T., & Prinsep, M. R. (2008) · Natural Product Reports · doi:10.1039/b701534h · Cited by 365
Cornelis, P., & Matthijs, S. (2002) · Environmental Microbiology · doi:10.1046/j.1462-2920.2002.00369.x · Cited by 278
Bacillus anthracis requires siderophore biosynthesis for growth in macrophages and mouse virulence
Cendrowski, S., MacArthur, W., & Hanna, P. (2004) · Molecular Microbiology · doi:10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03861.x · Cited by 229
Berry, J., Gantar, M., Perez, M., Berry, G., & Noriega, F. (2008) · Marine Drugs · doi:10.3390/md6020117 · Cited by 231
Metadata
- Authors
- Dittmann, E., & Wiegand, C.
- Venue
- Molecular Nutrition & Food Research
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2006-01
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 7-17
- ISSN
- 1613-4125 (ISSN-L)
- 1613-4133
- OpenAlex
- W2023988904
- Cited by
- 430
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 14.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Cyanobacterial toxins – occurrence, biosynthesis and impact on human affairs. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1002/mnfr.200500162
- The paper
- Dittmann, E., & Wiegand, C. (2006). Cyanobacterial toxins – occurrence, biosynthesis and impact on human affairs. Molecular Nutrition & Food Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/mnfr.200500162
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
