okadaic acid

Okadaic acid is a potent polyether marine toxin that primarily accumulates in the digestive glands of marine mollusks. It is a highly effective and selective inhibitor of protein phosphatases (PPs). By inhibiting these phosphatases, okadaic acid increases the phosphorylation levels of various proteins, acts as a tumor promoter, and induces tau protein phosphorylation. It can be used to establish models of Alzheimer’s disease and skin cancer.

Okadaic acid ammonium salt is a marine toxin that acts as an inhibitor of protein phosphatases (PP), with the highest affinity for PP2A (IC50 = 0.1–0.3 nM), while also inhibiting PP1, PP3, PP4, and PP5, but not PP2C. By increasing the phosphorylation of various proteins, it functions as a tumor promoter and induces tau protein phosphorylation, commonly used to establish Alzheimer's disease models.