Part IV Environmental applications

LASSALLE, VERONICA L.; SATTI ANGEL

FOOD, MEDICAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS OF POLYSACCHARIDES

Elsevier

Año: 2020; p. 443 - 473

Polysaccharides are biopolymers that are found in manynatural sources and are made of monosaccharide units thatare bound through glycosidic linkages (Korakli & Vogel,2006). Together with proteins, lipids, and polynucleotides,polysaccharides are essential biomacromolecules that playcritical roles in the physiological functions of life (Dwek,1996; Zong, Cao, & Wang, 2012). Polysaccharides from differentsources exhibit distinct monosaccharide componentswith different configurations (α or β), glycosidic linkage patterns,branching degrees, and charging properties that makethem diverse chemical structures resulting their functionalproperties (Korakli & Vogel, 2006). Recently, polysaccharideshave interested increasing consideration due to their biologicalproperties such as antioxidant, antimicrobial, antiviral,antidiabetic, antitumor, antiinflammatory, antihypertensive,immunomodulatory, and hepatoprotective properties (Bucket al., 2006; Dong & Hadinoto, 2017; Shi, Zhang, & Yang,2013; Takeda et al., 2012; Yang et al., 2008; Zhang et al., 2017;Zhou et al., 2015). In addition, polysaccharides are cheap,available in large scale, highly biocompatible and biodegradable,nontoxic, and nonreactogenic (Barclay, Day, Petrovsky,& Garg, 2019; Sivakami et al., 2013; Wang, Zhan, Ding, &Zhou, 2001). Therefore polysaccharides are promising materialsfor applications in pharmaceuticals, cosmeceuticals,foods, and environment.