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Record W4412431010 · doi:10.1016/j.microb.2025.100448

“Bleu VS Yellow”: Marennine and extracellular polysaccharides for potential application in cosmetic and pharmaceutical applications

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Mariame Chehouri, Elodie Pédron, Bertrand Génard, Kim Doiron, Samuel Fortin, William Bélanger, Jean‐Sébastien Deschênes, Réjean Tremblay

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Microbe · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicBee Products Chemical Analysis
Canadian institutionsUniversité du Québec à Rimouski
FundersFonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologiesMitacsMinistère de l'Économie, de la Science et de l'Innovation - Québec
KeywordsPolysaccharideBLEUExtracellularExtracellular polysaccharideChemistryTraditional medicineComputer scienceMedicineArtificial intelligenceBiochemistry

Abstract

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Haslea ostrearia , a widely distributed marine pennate diatom, produces the unique blue pigment marennine and various extracellular polysaccharides (EPS), exhibiting promising bioactive properties. Previous studies have demonstrated the antibacterial, antioxidant, and antiproliferative effects of purified marennine extracts, while EPS fractions remain primarily understudied despite their potential applications in dermatology and cosmetics. Based on these prior findings, we hypothesized that marennine and EPS could influence skin-related biological processes, particularly gene expression related to hydration and aging, as well as lipid metabolism. To test this hypothesis, we investigated the effects of marennine and EPS at different concentrations (1, 10 and 100 µg mL⁻¹) on dermal fibroblast skin cells. Gene expression analysis targeted key markers associated with hydration and anti-aging, while lipidomic profiling assessed potential alterations in skin cell lipid composition. Our results demonstrated a significant upregulation of genes linked to skin hydration and elasticity, supporting the bioactive potential of these compounds. However, lipidomic analyses revealed no significant changes in the structural lipid composition of the skin cells across all tested concentrations. These findings highlight the potential of marennine and EPS as bioactive ingredients for cosmetic formulations aimed at improving skin hydration and anti-aging properties. Furthermore, their bioactivity suggests possible pharmaceutical applications, particularly in dermatological treatments requiring natural bioactive compounds with antioxidative and protective properties.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.004

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.234
Teacher spread0.227 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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