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The aim of this work is to evaluate the immunomodu<strong>la</strong>tory capacity of the<br />

extracellu<strong>la</strong>r polysaccharidic fraction iso<strong>la</strong>ted from P. cru<strong>en</strong>tum on respiratory burst<br />

activity of sole phagocytes against P. damse<strong>la</strong>e subsp. piscicida.<br />

2. Materials and Methods<br />

2.1. Microorganisms<br />

The virul<strong>en</strong>t strain of Photobacterium damse<strong>la</strong>e subsp. piscicida Lg h41/01 iso<strong>la</strong>ted<br />

from diseased sole [17] was selected to test the respiratory burst activity of phagocytes<br />

from S<strong>en</strong>egalese sole treated with and without polysaccharidic fraction of P. cru<strong>en</strong>tum.<br />

The bacterial strain was cultured on tryptic soy agar (Oxoid) supplem<strong>en</strong>ted with 1.5%<br />

NaCl (TSAs) for 24 h at 22 ºC. Bacterial susp<strong>en</strong>sions were obtained from one colony of<br />

the previous culture on TSAs, inocu<strong>la</strong>ted in culture in tryptic soy broth (Oxoid) ad<strong>de</strong>d<br />

with 1.5% NaCl (TSBs) and incubated at 22ºC for 24 h. Th<strong>en</strong>, the cultures were<br />

c<strong>en</strong>trifuged at 2000 xg for 20 min at 4ºC, and pellets resusp<strong>en</strong><strong>de</strong>d in L-15 medium at an<br />

optical <strong>de</strong>nsity (600 nm) equal to 1(10 8 cells ml -1 ).<br />

2.2. Iso<strong>la</strong>tion of the extracellu<strong>la</strong>r polysaccharidic fraction from Porphyridium cru<strong>en</strong>tum<br />

The red microalga P. cru<strong>en</strong>tum (S.F. Gray) Nägeli obtained from the collection<br />

of C<strong>en</strong>tro <strong>de</strong> Investigaciones Marinas <strong>de</strong> Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain was grown in<br />

Porphyridium medium [31] in batch culture at 25 ºC, with 12 h photoperiod for 7 days.<br />

Th<strong>en</strong>, the algal culture was c<strong>en</strong>trifuged at 10000 xg for 10 min.<br />

The polysaccharidic fraction was obtained by selective precipitation of the<br />

exocellu<strong>la</strong>r polysacchari<strong>de</strong>s from the culture supernatant with N-cetylpyridinium<br />

bromi<strong>de</strong> (Cetavlon) 2% (p/v), following the method <strong>de</strong>scribed by Morris et al. [30]. The<br />

pellet was redissolved with 4 M NaCl, and the polysacchari<strong>de</strong> was floccu<strong>la</strong>ted again<br />

with ethanol (96%), c<strong>en</strong>trifuged (10000 xg, 10 min), dialyzed against 2M NaCl and<br />

finally lyophilized. Dilutions from the lyophilised extract were prepared in HBSS to<br />

achieve conc<strong>en</strong>trations of 10 mg of lyophilised per ml, 5 mg ml -1 , 2 mg ml -1 and 1 mg<br />

ml -1 .<br />

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