Biotechnology and Bioinformatics (1+1)

5.1.7. Sea Anemones

In a 1977 conference on “Drugs and Food from the Sea : Myth or Reality,” “researchers described cardiotonic polypeptide s from sea anemones.

• The sea anemone, Anemonia sulcata is a well-known natural source of supply of biologically active poly peptide s. So far, five toxins, ATX I, II, III, IV and AS V, several polyvalent protease inhibitors, an elastase inhibitor, two blood pressure-depressive polypeptides have been isolated from it.
• The sea anemone toxins (especially toxin II of A. sulcata, ATX II) are very important tools in neurophysiological and pharmacological research.