Cell Wall Polysaccharides of Marine Algae

Synytsya, Andriy; Čopı́ková, Jana; Kim, Woo J.; Park, Yong Il

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-53971-8_22

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“…The global seaweed industry has seen many shifts in focus over the course of its history, from exploiting seaweeds as fertilizers and a source of potash via iodine production to hydrocolloid extraction (Synytsya et al. ). At all stages the future of the industry has always been viewed as containing “potential”; this is no less relevant today than it was 100 years ago or more when the industry looked very different.…”

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Prospects and challenges for industrial production of seaweed bioactives

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Craigie

Stengel

et al. 2015

Journal of Phycology

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Large-scale seaweed cultivation has been instrumental in globalizing the seaweed industry since the 1950s. The domestication of seaweed cultivars (begun in the 1940s) ended the reliance on natural cycles of raw material availability for some species, with efforts driven by consumer demands that far exceeded the available supplies. Currently, seaweed cultivation is unrivaled in mariculture with 94% of annual seaweed biomass utilized globally being derived from cultivated sources. In the last decade, research has confirmed seaweeds as rich sources of potentially valuable, health-promoting compounds. Most existing seaweed cultivars and current cultivation techniques have been developed for producing commoditized biomass, and may not necessarily be optimized for the production of valuable bioactive compounds. The future of the seaweed industry will include the development of high value markets for functional foods, cosmeceuticals, nutraceuticals, and pharmaceuticals. Entry into these markets will require a level of standardization, efficacy, and traceability that has not previously been demanded of seaweed products. Both internal concentrations and composition of bioactive compounds can fluctuate seasonally, geographically, bathymetrically, and according to genetic variability even within individual species, especially where life history stages can be important. History shows that successful expansion of seaweed products into new markets requires the cultivation of domesticated seaweed cultivars. Demands of an evolving new industry based upon efficacy and standardization will require the selection of improved cultivars, the domestication of new species, and a refinement of existing cultivation techniques to improve quality control and traceability of products.

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Section: Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prospects and challenges for industrial production of seaweed bioactives

Hafting

Craigie

Stengel

et al. 2015

Journal of Phycology

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140

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“…Agar is a polysaccharide consisting of agarose and agaropectin and predominantly found in genera of the Gracilariaceae and Gelidiaceae families [9]. Agarose (poly-3-β-d-galactopyranosyl-(1-4)-α-l-3,6anhydrogalactopyranosyl-1) exists as a linear structure that is composed of repeating units of the agarobiose disaccharide (β-d-galactopyranosyl-(1-4)-α-l-3,6-anhydrogalactopyranose) [14]. The double-helical structure of agarose aggregates to develop a three-dimensional network that exhibits the water-holding capacity during elution.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is more complicated in structure and acidic in nature due to the presence of pyruvic acid, sulfonic, and d-glucuronic acid residues, which discriminate agaropectin from the agarose. These residues might affect the gel-forming properties of agar [14]. Agar is soluble in boiling water, and its solution forms a resilient gel at about 32-40 • C, which can only be liquefied above 80 • C. Differences in melting and gelling temperatures of agar render agar polysaccharide a prevalent lubricant, emulsifier, and thickener in food, microbiological and pharmaceutical sectors [15].…”

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Marine Seaweed Polysaccharides-Based Engineered Cues for the Modern Biomedical Sector

Bilal

Iqbal

2019

Marine Drugs

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Seaweed-derived polysaccharides with unique structural and functional entities have gained special research attention in the current medical sector. Seaweed polysaccharides have been or being used to engineer novel cues with biomedical values to tackle in practice the limitations of counterparts which have become ineffective for 21st-century settings. The inherited features of seaweed polysaccharides, such as those of a biologically tunable, biocompatible, biodegradable, renewable, and non-toxic nature, urge researchers to use them to design therapeutically effective, efficient, controlled delivery, patient-compliant, and age-compliant drug delivery platforms. Based on their significant retention capabilities, tunable active units, swelling, and colloidal features, seaweed polysaccharides have appeared as highly useful materials for modulating drug-delivery and tissue-engineering systems. This paper presents a standard methodological approach to review the literature using inclusion-exclusion criteria, which is mostly ignored in the reported literature. Following that, numerous marine-based seaweed polysaccharides are discussed with suitable examples. For the applied perspectives, part of the review is focused on the biomedical values, i.e., targeted drug delivery, wound-curative potential, anticancer potentialities, tissue-engineering aspects, and ultraviolet (UV) protectant potential of seaweed polysaccharides based engineered cues. Finally, current challenges, gaps, and future perspectives have been included in this review.

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“…In recent years the global market of macroalgal products is growing rapidly (FAO 2014) and it assumed that by the year 2023 it will reach approximately USD 850 million worldwide. The global algae industry has seen many changes, focused throughout its history, from the exploitation of marine algae as fertilizers and source of potash through the production of iodine and hydrocolloids (Synytsya et al 2015). Many researchers predict that in near future commercial algal hydrocolloid industry could be a boom due to their extensive use in cosmeceutical (Balboa et al 2015), nutraceuticals (Humaya & Kim, 2015), and pharmaceutical products (Pangestudi & Kim 2015).…”

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A peep into the transcriptome studies of the industrially important brown algae with special focus on Macrocystis genus

Palma

Paul

2020

Rev peru biol

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Brown algae are a commercial source of different polysaccharides/hydrocolloids that has been used to produce food, pharmaceutical, and several other useful biotechnological stuff. Nevertheless, transcriptomics has become a tool that not only provides valuable information for the understanding of the physiological processes of a species but also allows the identification of industrially important candidate genes. This study describes the transcriptome of brown algae and their industrial application with a special focus on Macrocystis integrifolia.

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Cell Wall Polysaccharides of Marine Algae

Cited by 74 publications

References 437 publications

Prospects and challenges for industrial production of seaweed bioactives

Prospects and challenges for industrial production of seaweed bioactives

Marine Seaweed Polysaccharides-Based Engineered Cues for the Modern Biomedical Sector

A peep into the transcriptome studies of the industrially important brown algae with special focus on Macrocystis genus

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