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Article

Assessment of the Chemical Diversity and Potential Toxicity of Benthic Cyanobacterial Blooms in the Lagoon of Moorea Island (French Polynesia)

by
Isabelle Bonnard
1,
Louis Bornancin
1,
Klervi Dalle
1,
Mireille Chinain
2,
Mayalen Zubia
3,
Bernard Banaigs
1 and
Mélanie Roué
4,*
1
Université de Perpignan, USR CRIOBE, LabEx CORAIL, 66860 Perpignan, France
2
Institut Louis Malardé, UMR EIO, Papeete 98713, Tahiti, French Polynesia
3
Université de Polynésie Française, UMR EIO, LabEx CORAIL, 98702 Faa’a, Tahiti, French Polynesia
4
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR EIO, LabEx CORAIL, Faa’a 98702, Tahiti, French Polynesia
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2020, 8(6), 406; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse8060406
Submission received: 10 April 2020 / Revised: 26 May 2020 / Accepted: 28 May 2020 / Published: 4 June 2020
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Abstract

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In the last decades, an apparent increase in the frequency of benthic cyanobacterial blooms has occurred in coral reefs and tropical lagoons, possibly in part because of global change and anthropogenic activities. In the frame of the survey of marine benthic cyanobacteria proliferating in the lagoon of Moorea Island (French Polynesia), 15 blooms were collected, mainly involving three species—Anabaena sp.1, Lyngbya majuscula and Hydrocoleum majus-B. Their chemical fingerprints, obtained through high performance liquid chromatography combined with UV detection and mass spectrometry (HPLC-UV-MS) analyses, revealed a high extent of species-specificity. The chemical profile of Anabaena sp.1 was characterized by three major cyclic lipopeptides of the laxaphycin family, whereas the one of L. majuscula was characterized by a complex mixture including tiahuramides, trungapeptins and serinol-derived malyngamides. Toxicity screening analyses conducted on these cyanobacterial samples using Artemia salina and mouse neuroblastoma cell-based (CBA-N2a) cytotoxic assays failed to show any toxicity to a degree that would merit risk assessment with regard to public health. However, the apparently increasing presence of blooms of Lyngbya, Hydrocoleum, Anabaena or other benthic cyanobacteria on coral reefs in French Polynesia encourages the implementation of ad hoc monitoring programs for the surveillance of their proliferation and potential assessment of associated hazards.

1. Introduction

Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic prokaryotes with a high morphological, physiological and metabolic diversity, with fossil records dating back to around 3 billion years ago [1,2]. They are widely distributed worldwide and are found in various habitats. Freshwater and brackish water cyanobacteria are well-known for their toxicity, with about 40 genera potentially producing cyanotoxins toxic to human beings and other vertebrates [3,4]. In contrast, marine cyanobacteria are well recognized as the potential producers of a variety of secondary metabolites that show a range of bioactivities potentially of interest for different industries, such as pharmaceutical, cosmetics, agriculture or energy [5,6,7,8]. In the last decade alone, estimations point to more than 400 newly described natural compounds, mainly peptides, extracted from marine cyanobacteria [8]. However, some marine cyanobacteria, like their freshwater and brackish water counterparts, can also produce potent toxins [3,9] and may thus represent a health hazard to human populations, for example, either through external exposure and skin irritation [10,11,12] or through consumption of fish or invertebrates having bioaccumulated toxins [13,14,15,16]. Besides these potential health impacts, marine benthic cyanobacterial blooms can also have negative consequences on coral reef health such as reducing coral settlement and recruitment [17], inducing coral diseases [18] or altering coral-associated microbial communities [19].
In recent years, reports of benthic cyanobacterial blooms have apparently increased in frequency in coral reefs and tropical lagoons, possibly in part in response to both man-made environmental disturbances and climate change [20,21]. As most of the areas where blooms are observed have importance for biodiversity, fish industry and tourism, the potential toxicity of benthic marine cyanobacteria has increasingly attracted the attention of the scientific community, environmental agencies and public health authorities. This is, for example, the case in Moorea Island (French Polynesia), where benthic cyanobacterial proliferations have been often observed during the warm season over the two past decades, especially in coral habitats degraded by anthropogenic activities (e.g., coastal development, tourism, fishing) [22]. Previous studies on these proliferating cyanobacteria mainly focused on the characterization of newly described bioactive metabolites in the filamentous cyanobacteria Lyngbya majuscula and Anabaena torulosa [23,24,25,26,27]. To the best of our knowledge, no harmful events for humans associated with these benthic cyanobacterial blooms have been reported so far in Moorea Island. In contrast, in Raivavae Island (Australes archipelago, French Polynesia), poisoning cases linked to the consumption of giant clams (Tridacna maxima) possibly contaminated with toxins produced by Oscillatoriales mats (Oscillatoria and Hydrocoleum genera) were reported [16]. In addition, the presence of the sxtG gene fragment involved in the synthesis of saxitoxin (STX) was detected in two mats comprised of marine benthic filamentous cyanobacteria collected in Raivavae Island, suggesting that these cyanobacteria are able to synthesize STX or analogs (i.e., neurotoxins known to contribute to Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning in humans) [28].
The present study was conducted in parallel to the study recently published by Zubia et al. [22], in order to assess the chemical diversity and potential toxicity of some benthic cyanobacterial blooms collected in the lagoon of Moorea Island (Society archipelago, French Polynesia). To this end, the chemical fingerprints of organic extracts from benthic cyanobacterial blooms were acquired through high performance liquid chromatography combined with UV detection and mass spectrometry (HPLC-UV-MS) analyses, while their potential toxicity was evaluated using the Artemia salina (brine shrimp) lethality bioassay as well as the mouse neuroblastoma cell-based assay (CBA-N2a). This last assay was chosen because, combined with the use of particular compounds, it allows the specific detection of marine neurotoxins acting on voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs), such as ciguatoxins (CTXs) [29]. Indeed, previous studies have reported the potential production of CTX-like compounds by benthic marine cyanobacteria in New Caledonia and French Polynesia [13,14,16]. CTXs are neurotoxins produced primarily by benthic dinoflagellates belonging to the genera Gambierdiscus and Fukuyoa, the accumulation of which in coral reef fish and invertebrates in marine food webs is responsible for ciguatera poisoning, a food-borne disease with high incidence in French Polynesia [30]. Because ciguatera constitutes a major health issue and a major threat to food sustainability and food security for local populations in French Polynesia [31,32], the potential implication of benthic marine cyanobacteria in the ciguatera phenomenon needs to be assessed to adapt seafood poisoning risk monitoring and management programs if necessary.

2. Materials and Methods

2.1. Sampling and Species Identification

Benthic cyanobacterial blooms (n = 15) were collected in various sites, mainly channels and sandy areas, of the lagoon of Moorea Island (Society archipelago, French Polynesia) (Figure 1) between October 2014 and March 2015. Each sample was geo-located and photo-documented in situ.
In the field, two sub-samples of each bloom were immediately preserved for species identification—in 3% solution of buffered formaldehyde in seawater for morphological analyses (light microscopy) and in guanidine thiocyanate for molecular analyses (16S rRNA gene fragments). The predominance of a given species in each bloom was verified under microscope. Samples were further analyzed for phenotype (i.e., species morphotype identification) and genotype (i.e., 16S rRNA sequences) determinations using a polyphasic approach previously described in Zubia et al. [22].
The remaining benthic cyanobacterial bloom samples were sorted to remove sand and epiphytes and quickly stored at -20°C until freeze-drying before chemical and toxicological analyses.

2.2. Metabolites Fingerprinting

In order to capture a broad range of mid-polar and non-polar metabolites that can be used as chemotaxonomic markers, an extraction method with methanol (MeOH) and dichloromethane (CH2Cl2) was used. The chemical fingerprints of these organic extracts were then acquired by HPLC-UV-MS.
Freeze-dried samples (3 g) were extracted three times in 20 mL of MeOH–CH2Cl2 (1:1) under 5 min sonication. For each cyanobacterial sample, the resulting extracts were combined then evaporated under reduced pressure to give a greenish organic extract weighing between 90 and 200 mg, depending on samples. Next, 500 mg of RP-18 silica (Puriflash, 50 µm, Interchim, Montluçon, France) were added to each sample, previously dissolved in MeOH–CH2Cl2 (1:1), and the impregnated silica evaporated under reduced pressure was loaded on a C18-E solid-phase extraction (SPE) cartridge (Strata, 2 g, 12 mL, 55 µm, 70 Å, Phenomenex, Torrance, CA, USA). After washing with water, the elution step was carried out with MeOH–CH2Cl2 (1:1) to obtain desalted crude organic extracts. Finally, samples were prepared at a concentration of 1 mg mL−1 in MeOH and were filtered through Uptidisk filters (PTFE, 0.2 µm, Interchim, Montluçon, France).
The chemical fingerprints were acquired on a Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, MA, USA) LC-MS device—an Accela HPLC coupled to a liquid chromatography quadrupole (LCQ) Fleet equipped with an electrospray ionization (ESI) source and a 3D ion-trap analyzer. The separation was achieved using a Gemini C6-Phenyl column (150 × 3.0 mm, 3 µm, 110 Å, Phenomenex, Torrance, CA, USA), run at 30 °C, with a flow rate of 0.5 mL min−1 and a gradient solvent system programmed as follows—from 80:20 H2O–acetonitrile (CH3CN) to 60:40 H2O–CH3CN for 5 min, from 60:40 to 30:70 H2O–CH3CN for 25 min, from 70% to 100% CH3CN for 5 min, then 100% CH3CN held for 10 min. All solvents were buffered with 0.1% formic acid (HCOOH). Mass spectrometry acquisition parameters were as follows—positive and negative ion polarity, scan range from 150 to 2000 m/z, ionization voltage −3 kV or 4 kV in ESI negative or ESI positive mode respectively, capillary temperature of 350 °C and sheath gas, sweep gas, auxiliary gas at 40, 2, 15 arbitrary units, respectively.
The identification of metabolites from L. majuscula and Anabaena sp.1 was made based on the retention times and masses of purified reference compounds—laxaphycins A, B, B3 [24,25] and tiahuramides A, B, C [26]. 1D/2D Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) fragmentations were also used and the data were compared to those of known compounds—dolastatin 16 [33,34], serinol-derived malyngamides 4a and 4b [35] and trungapeptins A–C [36] (Supplementary Material S1).
The chemical fingerprints of lipophilic fractions obtained with the extraction method described below (see Section 2.3) were also acquired (data not shown) and compared to those of MeOH–CH2Cl2 extracts. Since only some minor differences in the relative number of peaks in the polar and mid-polar region of the chromatograms could be observed, only the chemical fingerprints of MeOH–CH2Cl2 extracts were presented in the results Section 3.2. Since the LC-MS method used was designed to study mid- and non-polar secondary metabolites, the chemical fingerprints of the hydrophilic fractions obtained with the extraction method described below for the toxicological analyses (see Section 2.3) were not acquired and thus not shown.

2.3. Evaluation of Cytotoxic Activity Using the Neuroblastoma Cell-Based Assay

Before toxicological analyses targeting marine neurotoxins activating VGSCs, such as ciguatoxin-like compounds, benthic cyanobacterial samples were extracted according to the protocol previously described in Laurent et al. [16]. Thus, 5–10 g of each freeze-dried sample were extracted twice in 30 mL of MeOH and twice in 20 mL of 50% aqueous MeOH, under sonication for 4 h. Following centrifugation, the supernatants were pooled (100 mL) and dried under vacuum. The resulting dried extracts were further partitioned between 50 mL of CH2Cl2 and 2 × 25 mL of 60% aqueous MeOH. The resulting 60% aqueous MeOH and CH2Cl2 fractions, likely to contain hydrophilic and lipophilic toxic compounds, respectively, were dried under vacuum and stored at 4 °C until toxicological analyses.
The resulting lipophilic and hydrophilic fractions were screened for the presence of CTXs using CBA-N2a assay performed following the protocol previously described in Viallon et al. [37]. The final concentration for ouabain/veratridine treatment (OV+ conditions) was 85/8.5 to obtain 90–100% of cell viability against control cells without ouabain/veratridine treatment (OV- conditions). Each sample was tested in three independent experiments, with each concentration run in triplicate per plate. Lipophilic and hydrophilic fractions were tested using a serial dilution 1:2 of eight concentrations ranging from 74 to 9524 or 1475 to 188,783 pg dry extract µL−1, respectively. The maximum concentrations of dry extract (MCE) that does not induce non-specific cytotoxic effects on neuroblastoma (N2a) cells was estimated to be around 10 ng dry extract µL−1 and higher than 190 ng dry extract µL−1 for lipophilic and hydrophilic fractions, respectively. Absorbance data were fitted to a sigmoidal dose-response curve (variable slope) based on the four-parameter logistic model (4PL) allowing the calculation of half-maximal effective concentration (EC50) values using Prism v6.07 software (GraphPad, San Diego, CA, USA). The EC50 values of samples were expressed in ng dried extract µL−1. According to Viallon et al. [37], samples inducing a loss of N2a cell viability between 50% and 80% at the MCE under OV+ conditions were considered as weakly toxic.
Calibration of the assay was achieved using a P-CTX3C reference material sourced from the Institut Louis Malardé (Papeete, French Polynesia) that had been quantified gravimetrically. The EC50 value obtained for P-CTX3C was 3.1 ± 0.8 fg µL−1. The toxin contents (T) of samples were estimated using the formula T = (P-CTX3C EC50/sample EC50) and expressed in ng P-CTX3C equiv. g−1 freeze-dried cyanobacteria.

2.4. Evaluation of Toxicity Using Artemia salina Lethality Bioassay

The evaluation of the toxicity of cyanobacterial bloom samples was also carried out using a brine-shrimp lethality assay [38,39]. Brine-shrimp eggs were hatched in seawater for 48 h at room temperature under constant light exposure. Hydrophilic and lipophilic fractions (obtained as described in Section 2.3) or methanol-dichloromethane desalted extracts (obtained as described in Section 2.2) were resuspended in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and diluted in seawater to give a final concentration of 100 µg mL−1 (1% DMSO). Negative controls containing only seawater and seawater + 1% DMSO (final concentration) were also tested. Nauplii were transferred into 96-well microtiter plates (10 nauplii per treatment) filled with the test solutions and incubated at 25 °C for 24 h under a 12:12 h light regime. The experiments were conducted in triplicate for each sample. The mortality of animals (as indicated by lack of mobility) was recorded under a binocular magnifier. The percentage of lethality (%L) was calculated by comparing the number of deaths in the test vs. control wells, using the following formula—%L = [(Test−Control)/(1−Control)] × 100. Samples leading to a %L lower than 50% at a concentration of 100 µg mL−1 were considered as weakly toxic.

3. Results and Discussion

3.1. Identification of Benthic Cyanobacterial Blooms

The fifteen benthic cyanobacterial blooms sampled during the study were found to contain the following six species (Table 1)—Anabaena sp.1 (Figure 2A), Anabaena sp.2 (Figure 2B), Hydrocoleum majus-B (Figure 2C), Leptolyngbya sp.2 (Figure 2D), Lyngbya majuscula (Figure 2E) and Phormidium sp.1 (Figure 2F). Ten of these blooms appeared monospecific (i.e., predominated by one species), whereas the remaining five blooms were plurispecific mats (Figure 2G–H), composed mostly by three main species—Anabaena sp.1, Anabaena sp.2 and H. majus-B. The 16S rRNA gene fragments of seven monospecific bloom-forming cyanobacterial samples were successfully sequenced (Table S1). The detailed results and discussion on these taxonomical identifications are available in Zubia et al. [22]. None of the subsequent analyses were made at the population level.
Anabaena sp.1 forms blooms that are apparently becoming increasingly frequent in coral reefs of many tropical and sub-tropical areas worldwide, such as in islands of Moorea (blooms reported in previous studies as A. torulosa) [22,24,25,27], Tahiti, Mayotte and La Réunion [22], where they periodically cover entire reefs. L. majuscula has a long history of observations in different parts of the world, including massive blooms as well as reports of toxicity causing skin irritations, such as in Australia and Mayotte Island [10,40]. H. majus is the largest species of the genus that responds to eutrophication by building extensive mats [41].

3.2. Chemical Profiles of Benthic Cyanobacterial Blooms

The chemical profiles of the methanol-dichloromethane extracts from the 15 cyanobacterial bloom samples collected in the lagoon of Moorea Island displayed an interesting chemodiversity (Figure 3). The chemical fingerprints obtained for all samples of the same species were mostly comparable and appeared characteristic for the respective species. This was particularly obvious for Anabaena sp.1 and L. majuscula.

3.2.1. Anabaena sp.1 Blooms

The three blooms of Anabaena sp.1 (MOR-076, MOR-139 and MOR-167) showed identical chemical profiles dominated by three major cyclic lipopeptides of the laxaphycin family, among other unidentified compounds (Figure 3). Laxaphycins A, B and B3 detected in this study (Figure 4) were consistently found in A. torulosa samples from Moorea Island [24,25,27]. In contrast, cyclic and acyclic structural analogs of laxaphycins A, B and B3 from A. torulosa blooms collected in Moorea Island, which have been recently described [25,27], were not detected in the samples analyzed in the present study. However, the production of these newly described congeners appeared atypical and could not be explained by any biotic and abiotic factors [25,27]. Structural variants of laxaphycins A have been described from cyanobacteria of diverse origins, Anabaena laxa or A. torulosa [24,27,42], Hormothamnion enteromorphoides [43], Lyngbya confervoides [44], Trichormus sp. [45], cf. Oscillatoria sp. [46] and six analogs of laxaphycin B have been found in A. laxa or A. torulosa [24,25,42], L. confervoides [44], Trichormus sp. [45], cf. Oscillatoria sp. [46] and a Lyngbya sp. strain [47]. Horizontal gene transfer between cyanobacteria has been invoked as an explanation for the presence of all these closely related compounds in diverse species [48].

3.2.2. Lyngbya Majuscula Blooms

The three blooms of L. majuscula (MOR-026, MOR-168, MOR-170) showed chemical profiles dominated by three cyclic lipopeptides of the tiahuramide family (Figure 3). Tiahuramides A, B and C (Figure 5) are typical of L. majuscula from Moorea Island [26]. Amongst the tiahuramides, the presence of trungapeptins (differing by an N-Me-Ile instead of an Ile residue) was also suspected, based on the pattern of fragmentation in LC-MS/MS (Supplementary Material S1). Tiahuramides are depsipeptides of the kulolide superfamily consisting of seven amino acids including a non-proteinogenic residue in forms such as alkane (Mhoaa in tiahuramide C), alkene (Mhoea in tiahuramide B) or alkyne (Mhoya in tiahuramide A). The kulolide superfamily includes cyclic penta-, hexa- or hepta-depsipeptides containing two ester linkages and a methyl or dimethylhydroxyoctynoic acid residue such as yanucamides [49], antanapeptins [33], pitipeptolides [50,51], trungapeptins [36], hantupeptins [52,53], lagunamides [54,55] and viquieamides [56], which have been found in various cyanobacteria but also in the cephalaspidean mollusk Philinopsis speciosa [57]. The structural similarities within this large series of cyclic depsipeptides, as well as their diverse origin in the marine area, suggest the existence of a kulolide superfamily which may have an ancient evolutionary origin within the cyanobacteria [56].
In addition to these cyclic lipopeptides, the chemical profile of L. majuscula also showed two major compounds identified as serinol-derived malyngamides 4a and 4b (Figure 3 and Figure 5) according to LC-MS/MS and RMN data (Supplementary Material S1). Serinol-derived malyngamides 4a and 4b were found in all L. majuscula samples analyzed, that is, not only in the present analytic series but also in previous series [26]; therefore they appear characteristic of the chemical profile of L. majuscula from Moorea Island. To date, more than 30 malyngamide-type metabolites have been reported in the literature to be produced by L. majuscula, without specifying whether these molecules were isolated together with peptides of the kulolide superfamily. To the best of our knowledge, only Wan and Erickson [35] had previously described serinol-derived malyngamides from an Australian cyanobacterium.
In contrast, the presence of dolastatin 16 in MOR-168 (Figure 3 and Figure 5), based on LC-MS/MS and RMN data (Supplementary Material S1), was unique within all samples examined from Moorea Island. This cyclic didepsilipopeptide has been first isolated from the sea hare Dolabella auricularia [34], then from an L. majuscula collected in Madagascar [33]. Jointly with dolastatin 16, Nogle and Gerwick [33] isolated antanapeptins A-D, peptides structurally close to tiahuramides, from the same blue-green specimen and Montaser et al. [51,58] isolated pitiprolamide, a proline-rich dolastatin 16 analog, together with pitipeptolides from a Lyngbya majuscula from Guam.
The complexity of the chemical profiles of L. majuscula is consistent with the abundant literature on the variety of compounds isolated from this organism [10,12]. To date, more than 260 compounds have been identified in the genus Lyngbya, including 196 compounds allocated to the species L. majuscula alone [59]. Several hypotheses may explain this remarkable chemodiversity, including (i) the influence of environmental factors on biosynthetic pathways or (ii) a misidentification of individuals due to the genetic diversity of variants (cryptic species) within the nominal species traditionally identified by morphology alone. The potential cryptic speciation within L. majuscula requires molecular approaches at the population level that have not been addressed in the present study, so does the derivation of metabolomic properties along with the phylogenetic background of this cyanobacterium. The misidentification hypothesis is supported by the observation of similar compounds within distant groups or their absence within individuals from the same genus. Moreover, it is important to note that symbiotic and epiphytic organisms are often found associated with L. majuscula so that a possible overestimation of the chemical diversity of this cyanobacteria cannot be completely ruled out. This hypothesis is sustained by genomic and phylogenetic studies. Jones et al. [60] concluded in their study on an L. majuscula strain that only 126 genes, reportedly dedicated to secondary metabolites synthesis, transportation and catabolism, could not explain such chemodiversity. A contrario, Engene et al. [61,62] have highlighted the polyphylogeny of individuals within the Lyngbya genus from Curacao Island based on 16S rDNA molecular analysis.
In samples collected during the present study, peptides of the kulolide superfamily have been observed in L. majuscula metabolome in the form of a complex mixture including tiahuramides and trungapeptins, in association with serinol-derived malyngamides. This association of diverse nitrogen compounds within L. majuscula has often been observed [33,63]. Nevertheless, the overall pattern of the chemical profile of L. majuscula differed little across sampling sites, that is, in northern vs. southern locations, characterized by contrasting ocean swell and anthropogenic activities conditions.

3.2.3. Other Blooms

The bloom sample predominated by H. majus-B (MOR-091) revealed a rather simple chemical pattern showing two major peaks (rt = 11.04, m/z = 902.7, 596.3, 452.2; and rt = 14.58, m/z = 625.1, 560.2, 425.2) (Figure 3). Unfortunately, the UV absorption data for these two unknown compounds could not be recorded and attempts to isolate and purify them failed due to their rapid degradation during the extraction and analysis process. The chemical profile of H. majus-B, apparently less complex than those of Anabaena sp.1 and L. majuscula, was actually quite difficult to interpret since the major compounds were displayed in a multiple mass cluster and biodegraded rapidly. Overall, very few secondary metabolites have been reported from this genus [63], including the neurotoxin homoanatoxin-a (HANTX), previously characterized in a Hydrocoleum lyngbyaceum bloom and possibly linked to giant clam poisoning incidents in New Caledonia [15], and the toxins lyngbyastatin-1 and -3 as well as an amino acid related to tumonoic acids, isolated from a cyanobacterium possibly morphologically close to Hydrocoleum cantharidosmum [64].
The second unidentified compound detected in H. majus-B bloom was also present in various proportions in all the plurispecific mats (MOR-025, MOR-064, MOR-065, MOR-169 and MOR-208) composed primarily of Anabaena sp.1, Anabaena sp.2 and H. majus-B, whereas the first unidentified compound was only detected in three of them (MOR-025, MOR-064, MOR-065) (Figure 3). Additionally, the chemical profiles of three of the plurispecific mats (MOR-025, MOR-064 and MOR-065) also showed the presence of the three peaks observed in the chromatogram of Anabaena sp.2 (MOR-207, rt = 10.07 min; m/z 1181.3 and 610.5, rt = 10.63 min; m/z 1147.3 and 593.6 and rt = 16.57 min; m/z 621.0) (Figure 3). In contrast, no laxaphycins were detected in these plurispecific mats despite the presence of Anabaena sp.1. Thus, the plurispecific mats show more or less similar chemical profiles although the proportions between compounds differ. Even though the relative abundance of cyanobacterial species within each mat was not evaluated, several hypotheses could explain the distinct proportions of metabolites—(i) the compound ratio is relative to the mass ratio of cyanobacteria and differs in each sample or (ii) the synthesis of these secondary metabolites is influenced by (a) differing environmental conditions prevailing across sampling sites or (b) interactions between cyanobacteria within a plurispecific mat.
Finally, Phormidium sp.1 (MOR-090) and Leptolyngbya sp.2 (MOR-018) showed different and characteristic chemical profiles, which displayed secondary metabolites that cannot be confounded with any of the compounds found in the other species (Figure 3).

3.3. Toxicity of Benthic Cyanobacterial Blooms

Only four lipophilic fractions (CH2Cl2), concentrated in lipids and lipopeptides, from Anabaena sp.1 (MOR-139 and MOR-167) and plurispecific mats (MOR-025 and MOR-065) induced a lethality of A. salina nauplii between 20% and 40% (Figure 6). These results are consistent with previous assays (Bornancin 2019, personal communication) showing that tiahuramides and laxaphycin A were not toxic on brine-shrimp nauplii (0% lethality at 200 µg mL−1) and laxaphycins B-type were weakly active (93% to 95% lethality at 200 µg mL−1 and 25% to 30% lethality at 20 µg mL−1 for laxaphycins B and B3, respectively). However, laxaphycins B and B3 were likely responsible for only a part of the toxicity of cyanobacteria since the toxic activity on nauplii was found to vary between Anabaena sp.1 samples while their lipopeptide signature was similar.
Regarding CBA-N2a results, the lipophilic fractions from the three Anabaena sp.1 monospecific blooms (MOR-076, MOR-139 and MOR-167) revealed toxicity potentially typical of the presence of toxins acting as VGSCs activators (e.g., CTX-like toxins)—indeed, weak cytotoxic effects were observed in OV+ condition, whereas no cytotoxicity was detected in OV- condition (Figure 7). EC50 values of 5.9, 3.8 and 4.5 ng dried extract µL−1, corresponding to toxin contents of 7.8, 2.0 and 21.8 ng P-CTX3C equiv. g−1 freeze-dried cyanobacteria, were estimated for lipophilic fractions of MOR-076, MOR-139 and MOR-167, respectively. Interestingly, lipophilic fractions from an Anabaena sp. bloom from Lifou Island (New Caledonia) [16] and two Anabaena sp.1 blooms from Tahiti and Mangareva Islands (French Polynesia) (M. Roué, unpublished data) previously showed a similar activity using CBA-N2a.
However, further LC-MS analyses failed to detect the presence of any known VGSC activators, including CTXs (data not shown). Therefore, the weak toxicity detected on neuroblastoma cells could be consistent with the cytotoxic activities against cancerous cells exhibited by laxaphycins A and B [24,65], two compounds detected in Anabaena sp.1 samples. In any case, given the very low level of toxicity detected in Anabaena sp.1 blooms tested in the present study using CBA-N2a, health hazards associated with them appear negligible for now, especially as the bioavailability of potentially toxic compounds during direct ingestion, contact or via a trophic translocation scenario has still to be demonstrated.
None of the other cyanobacterial fractions, both lipophilic and hydrophilic, were found toxic on neuroblastoma cells in the laboratory conditions used for looking at the presence of VGSC toxin activators.
Tiahuramides B and C detected in the three blooms of L. majuscula were previously shown to exhibit moderate toxicity in SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells, unlike tiahuramide A which was non-toxic [26]. In the present study, only the crude lipophilic fractions were tested on murine N2a cells and tiahuramides B and C were not the major compounds (tiahuramide A was), therefore, an activity could maybe be observed if pure compounds had been tested. Similarly, L. majuscula is also known to produce several other neurotoxic lipopeptides—(i) antillatoxins exhibit neurotoxicity that activates VGSCs and have potent cytotoxicity toward murine N2a cells, (ii) jamaicamides are VGSC-blocking substances and (iii) kalkitoxins are toxic to brine-shrimp and potently block VGSCs in murine N2a cells (for a review, see Reference [4]). The absence of these neurotoxic lipopeptides in the chemical profiles of L. majuscula blooms from Moorea Island is consistent with the lack of toxicity of L. majuscula samples on N2a cells and Artemia salina nauplii. Finally, L. majuscula is a known producer of dermatotoxins (e.g., aplysiatoxins) responsible for human skin diseases through external contact [11] and is suspected of contributing to chelonitoxism, a human poisoning condition caused by the ingestion of the meat of marine turtles that have bioaccumulated lyngbyatoxin A [66,67]. Thus, it could be worth conducting further bioassays using different cell lines, in order to assess the potential health hazards represented by blooms of this cyanobacterium species. In any case, different environmental factors or genetic differences may account for the absence of toxicity in L. majuscula bloom samples from Moorea Island.
Finally, a previous study has reported the presence of CTX-like compounds, together with paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs) and neurotoxins, in marine benthic cyanobacteria of the genus Hydrocoleum (mainly H. lyngbyaceum) sampled from New Caledonia and their possible implication in human poisonings [13]. However, H. majus-B was apparently not observed among the implicated species and chemical profiles, as well as toxicity, are likely to vary between species, which is consistent with the non-toxicity of H. majus-B samples from Moorea Island.

4. Conclusions

Fifteen proliferations of benthic cyanobacteria collected from the lagoon of Moorea Island over a six months survey during the warm season of 2014–2015 were examined for their chemodiversity and toxic potential. Three major bloom-forming species were identified in twelve of these blooms, namely Anabaena sp.1, Hydrocoleum majus-B and Lyngbya majuscula. Chemical profiles of organic extracts, acquired using HPLC-UV-MS, proved to be characteristic for each species. Lipopeptides appear to possess a chemotaxonomic value for both L. majuscula and Anabaena sp.1 species. Indeed, tiahuramides and laxaphycins can be considered as chemotaxonomic markers for L. majuscula and Anabaena sp.1, respectively. Concerning H. majus-B, the two unidentified compounds, if characterized, could also be used as chemotaxonomic markers for the species. Regarding toxicological data, if Anabaena sp.1 samples revealed low toxicity on brine-shrimp nauplii and murine neuroblastoma cells, L. majuscula, H. majus-B and plurispecific mats showed no activity using CBA-N2a assay or weak toxicity on Artemia salina. Health hazards associated with benthic cyanobacterial proliferations in Moorea Island thus appear negligible for now. However, as described in the literature, L. majuscula [11,40] and Hydrocoleum spp. [13,14,15,16] in marine environments, as well as Anabaena spp. [3] in freshwater environments, produce toxins that can cause potential health issues. These previous findings thus encourage the implementation of an ad hoc surveillance of the toxicity of these three bloom-forming species in Moorea Island and more globally in French Polynesia, using, for instance, a non-targeted metabolomic approach [68,69] and/or other cytotoxicity-based functional assays [70].

Supplementary Materials

The following are available online at https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/8/6/406/s1, Supplementary material S1: Compounds isolated from Lyngbya majuscula—(A) Isolation procedure, (B) Structural elucidation procedure, (C) Identification of compounds (tiahuramides and analogs, serinol-derived malyngamides 4a and 4b, dolastatin 16); Table S1: List of benthic cyanobacterial bloom samples sequenced for DNA-assisted species identification, with indications of the marker sequenced, collection information, Genbank accession number and DNA sequence length.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, I.B., M.Z., B.B. and M.R.; Data curation, I.B., B.B. and M.R.; Formal analysis, I.B., L.B., K.D., M.Z., B.B. and M.R.; Funding acquisition, M.Z. and M.R.; Methodology, I.B., L.B., K.D., M.Z., B.B. and M.R.; Project administration, M.Z.; Supervision, M.R.; Validation, I.B., M.C., B.B. and M.R.; Writing—original draft, I.B. and M.R.; Writing—review & editing, I.B., M.C., M.Z., B.B. and M.R. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

The present work was supported by funds from France in the framework of the “CYANODIV” (Laboratoire d’Excellence CORAIL 2014) and “CYANOTOX” (Fonds Pacifique, no. AFD CPF 1440 01 N of 22 December 2016) research programs.

Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank the technicians of CRIOBE (Moorea) and Mathieu Grellier for their help and support during field expeditions. The authors also greatly acknowledge Jérôme Viallon and Hélène Taiana Darius from the Institut Louis Malardé (Tahiti) for the CBA-N2a analyses. Chromatographic, spectroscopic and structural analyses were performed using the facilities of the Biodiversité et Biotechnologies Marines platform at the University of Perpignan (Bio2Mar, http://bio2mar.obs-banyuls.fr/fr/index.html). Finally, authors thank the two anonymous reviewers whose comments greatly helped improve the manuscript.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript or in the decision to publish the results.

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Figure 1. Map of Moorea Island showing the sampling sites of the 15 benthic cyanobacterial bloom samples analyzed in the present study.
Figure 1. Map of Moorea Island showing the sampling sites of the 15 benthic cyanobacterial bloom samples analyzed in the present study.
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Figure 2. In situ photographs of benthic cyanobacteria mats sampled during the study. (A) Anabaena sp.1; (B) Anabaena sp.2; (C) Hydrocoleum majus-B; (D) Leptolyngbya sp.2; (E) Lyngbya majuscula; (F) Phormidium sp.1; (G–H) Plurispecific mats frequently occurring in channels of Moorea lagoon and composed of three major species—Anabaena sp.1, Anabaena sp.2 and H. majus-B.
Figure 2. In situ photographs of benthic cyanobacteria mats sampled during the study. (A) Anabaena sp.1; (B) Anabaena sp.2; (C) Hydrocoleum majus-B; (D) Leptolyngbya sp.2; (E) Lyngbya majuscula; (F) Phormidium sp.1; (G–H) Plurispecific mats frequently occurring in channels of Moorea lagoon and composed of three major species—Anabaena sp.1, Anabaena sp.2 and H. majus-B.
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Figure 3. Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) chromatographic profiles (total ion current (TIC), electrospray ionization positive mode (ESI +), chromatographic conditions listed in the experimental part) of methanol-dichloromethane extracts from the 15 benthic cyanobacterial blooms collected in the lagoon of Moorea Island.
Figure 3. Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) chromatographic profiles (total ion current (TIC), electrospray ionization positive mode (ESI +), chromatographic conditions listed in the experimental part) of methanol-dichloromethane extracts from the 15 benthic cyanobacterial blooms collected in the lagoon of Moorea Island.
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Figure 4. (A) LC-MS chromatographic profile (TIC, ESI+, chromatographic conditions listed in the experimental part) of a methanol-dichloromethane extract from Anabaena sp.1. (B) Structures of major lipopeptides.
Figure 4. (A) LC-MS chromatographic profile (TIC, ESI+, chromatographic conditions listed in the experimental part) of a methanol-dichloromethane extract from Anabaena sp.1. (B) Structures of major lipopeptides.
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Figure 5. (A) LC-MS chromatographic profile (TIC, ESI+, chromatographic conditions listed in the experimental part) of a methanol-dichloromethane extract from Lyngbya majuscula. (B) Structures of major secondary metabolites.
Figure 5. (A) LC-MS chromatographic profile (TIC, ESI+, chromatographic conditions listed in the experimental part) of a methanol-dichloromethane extract from Lyngbya majuscula. (B) Structures of major secondary metabolites.
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Figure 6. Toxicity of the 15 benthic cyanobacterial bloom samples on Artemia salina nauplii, expressed in percentage of lethality. The methanol-dichloromethane desalted extracts (EB-dichloro-methanolic), lipophilic fractions (EB-lipo) and hydrophilic fractions (EB-hydro) were tested at a concentration of 100 µg mL−1 (1% DMSO in seawater). Data represent the means ± standard errors (SE); n = 3 in all cases.
Figure 6. Toxicity of the 15 benthic cyanobacterial bloom samples on Artemia salina nauplii, expressed in percentage of lethality. The methanol-dichloromethane desalted extracts (EB-dichloro-methanolic), lipophilic fractions (EB-lipo) and hydrophilic fractions (EB-hydro) were tested at a concentration of 100 µg mL−1 (1% DMSO in seawater). Data represent the means ± standard errors (SE); n = 3 in all cases.
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Figure 7. Dose-response curves for neuroblastoma (N2a) cells exposed, in the absence (OV- condition, open symbols) and presence (OV+ condition, solid symbols) of ouabain and veratridine, to increasing concentrations of lipophilic fractions (CH2Cl2) from Anabaena sp.1 blooms MOR-076 ( Jmse 08 00406 i001/ Jmse 08 00406 i002), MOR-139 ( Jmse 08 00406 i003/ Jmse 08 00406 i004) and MOR-167 ( Jmse 08 00406 i005/ Jmse 08 00406 i006) collected in the lagoon of Moorea Island. Data represent the means ± SE of values obtained from three independent neuroblastoma cell-based assays (CBA-N2a), each point run in triplicate.
Figure 7. Dose-response curves for neuroblastoma (N2a) cells exposed, in the absence (OV- condition, open symbols) and presence (OV+ condition, solid symbols) of ouabain and veratridine, to increasing concentrations of lipophilic fractions (CH2Cl2) from Anabaena sp.1 blooms MOR-076 ( Jmse 08 00406 i001/ Jmse 08 00406 i002), MOR-139 ( Jmse 08 00406 i003/ Jmse 08 00406 i004) and MOR-167 ( Jmse 08 00406 i005/ Jmse 08 00406 i006) collected in the lagoon of Moorea Island. Data represent the means ± SE of values obtained from three independent neuroblastoma cell-based assays (CBA-N2a), each point run in triplicate.
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Table 1. Identification of benthic cyanobacterial blooms collected in the lagoon of Moorea Island, according to Zubia et al. [22].
Table 1. Identification of benthic cyanobacterial blooms collected in the lagoon of Moorea Island, according to Zubia et al. [22].
Species DominanceN° VoucherLatitude SLongitude W
MOR-07617°29’26.60’’149°54’40.50’’
Anabaena sp.1MOR-13917°29’13.20’’149°53’24.20’’
MOR-16717°29’19.46’’149°53’28.32’’
Anabaena sp.2MOR-20717°28’47.63’’149’48’27.78’’
Hydrocoleum majus-BMOR-09117°29’13.20’’149°53’24.20’’
Leptolyngbya sp.2MOR-01817°28’47.63’’149’48’27.78’’
MOR-02617°35’30.50’’149°51’18.00’’
Lyngbya majusculaMOR-16817°29’21.91’’149°51’05.26’’
MOR-17017°28’58.87’’149°50’06.47’’
Phormidium sp.1MOR-09017°29’23.00’’149°53’36.40’’
MOR-02517°35’30.50’’149°51’18.00’’
MOR-06417°32’24.24’’149°54’16.05’’
Plurispecific mats 1MOR-06517°31’43.11’’149°54’48.52’’
MOR-16917°28’58.91’’149°50’10.32’’
MOR-20817°28’47.63’’149’48’27.78’’
1 The plurispecific mats were mainly composed of three major species—Anabaena sp.1, Anabaena sp.2 and Hydrocoleum majus-B.

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