Overview on biological activities and molecular characteristics of sulfated polysaccharides from marine green algae in recent years

Among the three main divisions of marine macroalgae (Chlorophyta, Phaeophyta and Rhodophyta), marine green algae are valuable sources of structurally diverse bioactive compounds and remain largely unexploited in nutraceutical and pharmaceutical areas. Recently, a great deal of interest has been deve...

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Published inMarine Drugs Vol. 12; no. 9; pp. 4984 - 5020
Main Authors Wang, Lingchong, Wang, Xiangyu, Wu, Hao, Liu, Rui
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI AG 25.09.2014
MDPI
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biological activities
Chlorophyta - chemistry
Female
Humans
Male
marine green algae
Phaeophyceae - chemistry
Polysaccharides - chemistry
Polysaccharides - isolation & purification
Polysaccharides - pharmacology
Review
Seaweed - chemistry
sulfated polysaccharide
Sulfates - chemistry
Sulfates - pharmacology
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Summary:Among the three main divisions of marine macroalgae (Chlorophyta, Phaeophyta and Rhodophyta), marine green algae are valuable sources of structurally diverse bioactive compounds and remain largely unexploited in nutraceutical and pharmaceutical areas. Recently, a great deal of interest has been developed to isolate novel sulfated polysaccharides (SPs) from marine green algae because of their numerous health beneficial effects. Green seaweeds are known to synthesize large quantities of SPs and are well established sources of these particularly interesting molecules such as ulvans from Ulva and Enteromorpha, sulfated rhamnans from Monostroma, sulfated arabinogalactans from Codium, sulfated galacotans from Caulerpa, and some special sulfated mannans from different species. These SPs exhibit many beneficial biological activities such as anticoagulant, antiviral, antioxidative, antitumor, immunomodulating, antihyperlipidemic and antihepatotoxic activities. Therefore, marine algae derived SPs have great potential for further development as healthy food and medical products. The present review focuses on SPs derived from marine green algae and presents an overview of the recent progress of determinations of their structural types and biological activities, especially their potential health benefits.
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ISSN:1660-3397
1660-3397
DOI:10.3390/md12094984