Isolation, characterization, and biomedical potential of phycoerythrin phycobiliprotein from Kappaphycus alvarezii (Doty) L. M. Liao: antimicrobial, antioxidant, and anticancer activities

Abstract Kappaphycus alvarezii (Doty) L. M. Liao, a red seaweed widely cultivated for carrageenan polysaccharide, is also a potential source of the valuable pigment phycoerythrin (PE). Therefore, this study aims to extract phycoerythrin from K. alvarezii, evaluate its antimicrobial, antioxidant, and...

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Published in:	Scientific Reports
Main Authors:	Harinathan Balasundaram, Parthasarathy Seethapathy, Subbiah Sankaralingam, Shunmugiah Mahendran, Murugan Mareeswaran, Jeyaraj Pandiarajan, Pandiaraj Maheswari, Sakthivel Venkatesh, Malaisamy Arunkumar, Girish R. Pathade, Deepu Pandita, Anu Pandita, Fazal Ullah, Hosam O. Elansary, Muhammad Nazim, Adel A. Fickak, Mohamed A. Rashwan, Ihab Mohamed Moussa
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Nature Portfolio 2025-07-01
Subjects:	Bioactive molecules Lung cancer Molecular docking Phycoerythrin Pigment analysis Red seaweed
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-11899-7