Abstract
Aspergillus niger produced a proteinaceous hemolysin, nigerlysin © when incubated on sheep's blood agar (SBA) at both 23 and 37 °C. Nigerlysin was purified from tryptic soy broth (TSB) culture filtrate and found to have a molecular weight of approximately 72 kDa, with an isoelectric point of 3.45. Nigerlysin is heat stable up to 65 °C but unstable at 75 °C when incubated for 10 min. Circular dichroic analysis revealed that nigerlysin has an alpha helical structure. Exposure of mouse primary cortical neuronal cells to 0.1 μg ml −1 of nigerlysin resulted in the rapid loss of their viability, approximately 50% in 24 h. The IC 50 is estimated to be 0.037 μg ml −1, or between 0.034 and 0.041 μg ml −1 at the 95% confidence level.
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