褐藻岩藻聚糖生物活性的研究进展

褐色海藻富含对人体有益的功能性多糖——硫酸化多糖。多年来,从褐色海藻中分离出的硫酸多糖在药物、保健品、化妆品和功能性食物等领域中具有广阔的应用前景。岩藻聚糖作为褐藻多糖中的一员,其复杂的生物特性已被证明具有开发和进行工业化生产的价值,从而获得对人体有益的成分。由于海藻多糖具有上述特性,故作者主要对从褐色海藻中分离出的岩藻聚糖(又叫多糖硫酸酯)的抗凝血、抗血栓、免疫调节、抗肿瘤等生物活性方面及其在工业生产中应用等方面进行了综述。

Research Progress on Fucosan Isolated from Brown Seaweeds

Brown seaweeds were rich in sulfated polysaccharides that could potentially be exploited as functional ingredients for human health. Over the years, sulfated polysaccharides isolated from brown seaweeds with potential pharmacological, nutraceutical, cosmeceutical and functional food properties had broad application prospect. The profound functional properties of fucosan extracted from the brown seaweeds had proven to be invaluable and could be employed in the industrial applications as natural functional ingredients to obtain possible health benefits. As a result of seaweed polysaccharides with the characteristics mentioned above, the author mainly discussed the fucosan (polysaccharide sulfate) isolated from brown algae on anticoagulant, antithrombotic, immunomodulation and anticancer, and its application in industrial production.